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Drawing of an Indian Ayah from 1864 and photo of professor Victoria Haskins
22
Jul
2025

Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society

Lecture

What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…

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23
Jul
2025

Past and future histories of Gender and Colonialism: In celebration of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott

Lecture/seminar

Join us to celebrate the career of Distinguished Professor Angela Woollacott in this special event. This multi-generational panel of leading historians will consider why looking at gender and colonisation together has been especially productive, what it means to write ‘feminist’ history, and what’s…

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31
Jul
2025

Searching for Harold Holt

Seminar

My interest in Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, began in my childhood. I understood little about his politics but I was charmed by his smile and personality. After he died in December 1967, I had an intimation that he would somehow play a part in my life. And so it proved to be when I…

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19
Aug
2025

In Conversation with Sita Sargeant

Book launch

A collaboration between the National Centre of Biography and Harry Hartog (ANU)Founder of tour company She Shapes History Sita Sargeant will be in conversation with Michelle Staff about her latest book She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About Great Australian Women (Hardie Grant, 2025),…

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