Phillip Playford's obituary added to Obituaries Australia
Read two obituaries for Phillip Playford, an outstanding Western Australian geologist, who died in July this year. Playford also took an interest in the shipwreck of the Zuytdorp off the Western…
Life Sentences - Detecting Deceivers
The latest edition of the ANU Reporter contains an article by ADB editor, Dr Nicole McLennan, about some of the infamous fraudsters, quacks, confidence artists, hustlers and double–dealers in the…
Gareth Evans: Incorrigible Optimist
The ANU’s chancellor Gareth Evans most recent book, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir was published by Melbourne University Press today. In it he looks back over the highs and lows of his…
Hazel King obituary added
Ken Cable’s beautifully written obituary for historian Hazel King (1908-1997) was added to Obituaries Australia today. It was not until she was 40 years of age that Hazel got the chance to enrol for…
Biography Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his…
94 new ADB entries added to website
94 new entries for people who died in 1993 were added to Australian Dictionary of Biography website today. Troy Lovegrove (1986-1993) and Eve van Grafhorst (1982- 1993) are, by far, the youngest of ‘…
Biography Workshop
Date: Thursday 30 March 2017Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bldg. 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU)Time: 12 midday until about 1.30 p.m.Inquiries: malcolm.allbrook@anu.edu.au Libby…