Australian Journal of Biography and History title
The Australian Journal of Biography and History publishes peer-reviewed articles on Australian historical biography, including biographical studies, studies relating to theory and methodology, and the associated genres of autobiography, life writing, memoir, collective biography and prosopography. We are especially interested in articles that explore the way in which biography and its associated genres can illuminate themes in Australian history, including women in Australian society, family history, transnational networks and mobilities, and Indigenous history.
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Editor
Malcolm Allbrook
Book review editor
Sam Furphy
Copyeditor
Geoff Hunt
Editorial Board
Malcolm Allbrook (ANU); David Carment (Charles Darwin University); Libby Connors (University of Southern Queensland); Karen Fox (ANU); Sam Furphy (ANU); Lawrence Goldman (St Peter's College, Oxford); Catherine Kevin (Flinders University); Lenore Layman (University of Western Australia); Doug Munro (University of Queensland); Melanie Nolan (ANU); Carolyn Rasmussen (University of Melbourne); Hans Renders (University of Groningen); Sophie Scott-Brown (University of East Anglia)
Contact
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Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 8, 2024
Author/editor: Allbrook, M.
Year published: 2024
The Australian Journal of Biography and History No 8 (2024) applies biographical methodologies to enliven themes and episodes in Australian history. Studying John Wear Burton, the head of the Commonwealth department of external affairs between 1947 and 1950, Adam Hughes Henry explores…
Quick Link: ajbh_no8.pdf(6.19 MB)
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 7, 2023
Author/editor: Cuneen, M. & Allbrook, M.
Year published: 2023
This special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History explores the lives of convicts transported to Australia and asks how they can be investigated through various forms of biography. Given the ever-increasing range of methodologies for researching convict lives, this…
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 6, 2022
Author/editor: Arnott, G., Laidlaw, Z. & Lydon, J.
Year published: 2022
This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, uses biographical approaches to explore how British slavery shaped the Australian colonies. It is the first stand-alone journal issue to feature an…
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Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 5, 2021
Author/editor: Black, J. & Wilks, S.
Year published: 2021
A hardcopy of the Australian Journal of Biography and History can be purchased from ANU Press. This special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History focuses on political biography. The 10 peer-reviewed articles and review essays collectively demonstrate that political biography is…
Quick Link: AJPH_no_5.pdf(2.3 MB)
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 3, 2020
Author/editor: Allbrook, M.
Year published: 2020
A hardcopy of the Australian Journal of Biography and History can be purchased from ANU Press. The articles in this issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History consider subjects who have lived across and between national and internal Australian boundaries, and the authors have thus…
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 4, 2020
Author/editor: Allbrook, M.
Year published: 2020
A hardcopy of the Australian Journal of Biography and History can be purchased from ANU Press. Each of the articles in this issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History uses biography to illustrate historical themes and to add texture to historical episodes. Patricia Clarke examines…
Quick Link: AJBH_no4_2020.pdf(3.97 MB)
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 2, 2019
Author/editor: Allbrook, M.
Year published: 2019
A hardcopy of the Australian Journal of Biography and History can be purchased from ANU Press. The second issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History is a joint project between the National Centre of Biography at ANU, and the Canberra and District Historical Society. In ‘A City and…
Quick Link: AJBH_no_2_2019.pdf(4.14 MB)