Past events
15
Mar
2023
A South Asian Neutral Power in the United Nations: India’s Peacekeeping Mission on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)
The end of World War II by Germany’s and Japan’s surrender brought a major socio-political transformation in the colonialised nations of Asia. The independence...
08
Mar
2023
In conversation with Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace will be in conversation with Tanya Plibersek on Chris's new book, Political Lives. Australian Prime Ministers and their Biographers, an intimate...
08
Mar
2023
The Revolution Will Be Advertised: Consumerism and Political Revolt in Western Europe after 1968
Historians have often struggled to interpret the relation of the political revolts of 1968 to the consumer revolutions of the era. Was ‘1968’ the product of...
08
Mar
2023
Environmental Exchanges Seminar: Claire Lowrie
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of...
02
Mar
2023
Vladimir Mischenko (a.k.a. Bill Marshall): Russian Émigré and Spy for ASIO
The biographies of migrants – as individuals who move through countries, across borders and continents – can be difficult to piece together. There are often...
01
Mar
2023
Over the Global Counter: Boots the Chemists in New Zealand and Fiji, 1936-1964
From the 1920s Boots The Chemists was Britain's largest retail chain pharmacy. A common feature of every British high street, Boots was a popular distributor...
22
Feb
2023
'Struggling to Replace It With Something Else': The End of Britain as Global History
Please note that the History Seminar Series will run in the Lectorial 1 (RSSS Building, Ground Floor) in Semester 1, 2023.
Right until his death last month at...
