School of History Seminar Week 4: Chambers of Commerce, Globalisation and the Political Economy of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1945-1975
Seminar
This paper explores the demise of a conception of the British Empire/Commonwealth of Nations as a coherent trading unit amongst business elites from 1945 to 1975. It does so through the prism of a previously neglected pan-imperial, later pan-Commonwealth, business association: the Federation of…
Orbiting the Anglo-Antipodean World of Welfare: William Beveridge and Social Security
Seminar
William and Janet Beveridge, On and Off the Platform Under the Southern Cross (Wellington: Hicks, Smith & Wright, 1949), cover. William Beveridge accepted an invitation to deliver the inaugural De Carle Lectures at the University of Otago in 1948. In November 1942 the report on Social…
Stephen Foster: Microhistory
Workshop
Stephen Foster will talk about microhistory – a small story with potentially large meanings.
History Seminar Week 2: Contesting 'the Ballarat cry': Alfred Deakin's Narrative of Trade and Race in the 1903 Federal Election Compaign
Seminar
Evening News (Sydney), 10 December 1903 . How did the Australian people respond to Prime Minister Alfred Deakin’s ‘Ballarat cry’ of ‘fiscal peace and preferential trade for a white Australia’ that framed his 1903 federal election campaign? Tracing the conduct of the federal election…
School of History Seminar Week 1
Seminar
In this seminar environmental historian of the United States, Christof Mauch, introduces his project ‘Travels into America’s Nature and History’, which focuses on ten different places in the United States. Mauch zooms in and out of these places and explores each case over the longue durée —…
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins book launch
Book launch
The National Centre of Biography invites you to celebrate the launch of The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era edited by Samuel Furphy. The book is being launched by the Chancellor of the ANU Professor the Hon Gareth…