Second Fleet Women: First-Rate Survivors
Lecture/seminar
In this pre-submission seminar, Nichola Garvey presents her thesis research on a group biographical study of the women transported on the Second Fleet vessel Neptune. It asks a deceptively simple question: how did these women survive? It examines survival on both the Neptune voyage,…
Robert Randolph Garran: A Symposium
Symposium
This is a free one-day symposium on the lawyer and public servant, Robert Randolph Garran (1867-1957). Garran was a major figure in the making of the Commonwealth of Australia, the formation of the Commonwealth (now Australian) Public Service, the development of federal law and Australia's…
Spying on a Spy: A Dutch Agent for the British, Marguerite Wolters, 1723–1800
Seminar
This workshop is on entirely new work for me, a biography of an unknown Dutch woman called Marguerite Wolters who headed a Europe-wide spy agency for nearly twenty years (1771–1790). She sold her intelligence exclusively to the British government, who used it to consolidate its rising superpower…
‘A Continent That Australians Must be Proud to Advertise’: Nature, Tourism, and the National Image, 1905-1988
Lecture/seminar
Since Federation, national tourism advertising campaigns have carried messages about Australia, its scenery and its people around the world. Tourism advertising has also served an important function as a bellwether for how the world perceives the nation from the outside. A unifying…
Lebanon Days to Les Murray: The Memoirist Turned Biographer
Seminar
How do we ensure that writing about the personal past illustrates something beyond the person? How do we emphasise the salient fact in a tangle of intimately recorded details? And how do we achieve this when writing from memory, as opposed to when writing from evidence? This discussion will…
Women, Gender and Queenship through the ages
Workshop
The ANU School of History and ANU Centre for Classical Studies present the third in the annual series of Women and Gender workshops organised by the ANU Late Antique and Medieval Group: 'Women, Gender and Queenship through the Ages'.Registration is essential: RSVP by 12 (noon) - Monday, 3 November…
Masterclass: A poisoned well: Seeing Queenship through the Riddle of Ancient Sources
Lecture/seminar
Studying the intersection of queenship and gender is a delicate endeavour in any historical period, but especially so in the context of the Hellenistic world. Our source material for elite and royal women in the period is sporadic at best, much of it comes from centuries after the events described…