A Third Perspective between Colonialism and Nationalism: Inter-Colonial Health Governing Schemes of the League of Nations’ Far Eastern Rural Hygiene Conference, Bandung 1937
Seminar
Shortly after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the League of Nations held the Far Eastern Rural Hygiene Conference in Bandung, which was hosted by the Dutch East Indies government, between 3–13 August 1937. The conference of 1937 has long been overshadowed by the other Bandung Conference of…
Interconnected Oligarchy: The New South Wales Labor Party and the Trade Unions from 1910 to 1939
Seminar
The period from 1910 to 1939 was one of the most turbulent chapters in New South Wales (NSW) labour history. It was defined by intense ideological conflict, winner-take-all factional warfare, widespread accusations of corruption, and multiple Labor Party splits. Intertwined within these issues were…
The Puzzle of the 1944 Referendum on Reconstruction
Seminar
Faced with an unprecedented threat to national security during the Second World War, the Commonwealth government assumed extraordinary powers. These extended beyond the military effort to the measures required to equip and sustain it: there were unprecedented controls over capital and labour,…
ANU Open Day 2016
Other
ANU Open day will give you the opportunity to discover the undergraduate and postgraduate study options available through the School of History. You'll also have the chance to take a look around the campus and learn what ANU has to offer more broadly. History Events: 2:00pm - 2:20pm Why…
School of History Seminar Week 6: Picturing Democracy: Telling the Story of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Electoral Education
Seminar
You can have your say’ poster card, 1979 AIATSIS call number: Rpf HOW In 1961 the Menzies’s government extended the commonwealth electoral franchise to all adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. While some Indigenous Australians had been eligible to vote prior to this, many found…
The Trial of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson: New Zealand’s Colonial Justice and Indigenous Resistance in 1930s Sāmoa
Seminar
This is a seminar about the extraordinary 1933–1934 trial of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson in Apia. The trial was the culmination of a harsh campaign of exile and public disgrace waged against the Sāmoan nationalist leader by conservative New Zealand governments since 1926. The government assumed Ta’isi’s…
Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers Became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941–1945
Seminar
German propaganda flyer dropped over Soviet lines in order to increase desertion across the frontline. The question of Red Army soldiers crossing the line to the Germans during the German-Soviet war of 1941–1945 has long obsessed historians. Some have treated all Soviet prisoners of war as…