Australian Journal of Biography and History

Australian Journal of Biography and History

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

All correspondence should be addressed to:
The Editor, Australian Journal of Biography and History
National Centre of Biography, School of History
RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent
Acton, 2601 
OR
 

Download AJBH here

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/journals/australian-journal-biography-and-history

 

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 some of the...

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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 issue offers a...

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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 emerging...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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