Biography Footnotes 12
Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2013
Read the transcripts of Malcolm Turnbull’s speech at the launch of The ADB’s Story and Gareth Evans’s speech at the launch of Barry Jones’s Dictionary of World Biography. Both books were published this year by the National Centre of Biography in association with ANU Press. We also discuss the…
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Biography Footnotes 10
Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2012
We farewell two of our staff, Pam Crichton and Barbara Dawson; have news of a symposium on turning theses into books, nominate our 'favourite' obituary of the year from those which were entered into Obituaries Australia, and have details about Richard Harrison's ambitious project to create a…
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Biography Footnotes 11
Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2012
Read a profile of the Queensland Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography; the citations for the ADB medals awarded to Geoffrey Bolton and John Lack and a report of the work being done by the National Centre of Biography's computer programmer Scott Yeadon on developing ways to…
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Biography Footnotes 8
Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2011
The National Centre of Biography’s new website, Obituaries Australia was launched by ANU Vice-Chancellor, Ian Young, on 14 April. We include Nigel Starck's speech, 'The Newspaper Obituary as an agent of Biography' from the launch. We also take a look at some of the controversy surrounding early…
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Biography Footnotes 9
Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2011
As the Australian Dictionary of Biography Editorial Board meets in Canberra we profile its members, and also welcome Nicole McLennan to the staff of the National Centre of Biography. Karen Fox discusses the Australian honours system and some of the ADBers who have been awarded honours. We also…
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Author/editor: Fernon, C
Year published: 2010
Read about the National Centre of Biography’s proposed new Obituaries Australia website as well as the first obituary published in an Australian newspaper – appropriately of a First Fleet convict who made good, James Bloodsworth. We also take a look at some of the letters and emails that the…
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Author/editor: Fernon, C.
Year published: 2010
The National Centre of Biography farewells Australian Dictionary of Biography editor, Gail Clements, and welcomes computer programmer, Scott Yeadon, and holds a conference on The Life of Information. Mark St Leon, a descendant of the St Leon circus family, discusses the difficulties he has…
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