Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women in the United States, 1910–1960
Seminar
'I always find a visit to the United States exhilarating,’ wrote Dorothy Jenner in her autobiography. ‘They are light years ahead of us, sometimes on the wrong foot, but more often on the right one.’ For this Sydney-born actress and journalist, who visited America on five occasions between 1915…
‘Returning Home to Fight’: Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914–1918
Seminar
Bristol and the War, 31 Oct.1914, p.1 One issue that migration historians have ignored as a fruitful field of endeavour is the experience of thousands of British-born migrants who either came back to the United Kingdom to enlist in British regiments or enlisted in the respective dominion…
ANU Open Day 2015
Other
Interested in studying in the field that allows you to shape your view of the world and explore all aspects of the human experience? Come and hear from the horse's mouth why History is the subject for you! Academics from the School of History will be available at this Saturday's Open Day to…
Angela Woollacott: Don Dunstan
Workshop
Angela Woollacott will discuss her biography of Don Dunstan. She will also ponder issues for a biographer of using various genres of the subject’s ‘autobiographies’.
Royalists, Republicans, and Knights of the Realm: Debating Titles in Nineteenth-Century Australasia
Seminar
Edmond Leighton, The Accolade (1901) Almost a decade after they were abolished, in 2009 knighthoods and damehoods returned to the New Zealand honours system. Five years later, in 2014, they were also restored in Australia, reversing a trend towards the disappearance of titular honours across the…
Je ne sais quoi: Finding France and the French in Australia, 1890–1914
Seminar
Image: Paris House Menu, cover art, 1904 (private collection) Two days before Christmas in 1915, the Premier of New South Wales, W. A. Holman, spoke to a crowd of Australian and French patriots at the Australia Hotel. With confidence, he clamoured at length about the single sentiment of…
Book Launch: The Hanged Man and the Body Thief Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery
Other
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery By Alexandra Roginski 'Much longer books have been written about crime, anthropology and the history of science, but few have brought these disparate subjects so nimbly and engagingly together.' The Weekend Australian 'This…