James Button: Speechless
Workshop
James Button, author of Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business, will speak on what writing an accidental biography of his father, the Labor Senator and Minister John Button, taught him about his father, Australia and himself.
School of History Weekly Seminars
Seminar
The Programme for the School of History regular seminar series is available here
Sophie Scott-Brown, Life Writing
Workshop
Led by Sophie Scott-Brown, the Biography Workshop will explore ways in which we come to both construct and deconstruct ideas of character in life writing.
Magna Carta and the Victorians
Seminar
In 2015 Magna Carta celebrates its 800th anniversary. It is a timely moment to look back and see how successive generations have utilised and understood the foundational document of British history. In this illustrated lecture Miles Taylor examines how during the Victorian era the 1215 charter lost…
David Day, Writing Australian Prime Ministers as Children
Workshop
David Day’s many books include prize winning biographies of Australian prime ministers – Andrew Fisher, John Curtin and Ben Chifley. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the ANU, where he is writing a biography of Paul Keating.