Lil Pearce wins Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2016
Lilian Pearce (Australian National University) has won the 2016 Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student to the annual Australian…
Libby Robin keynote at Environmental Humanities Center launch, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Libby Robin is the keynote speaker at the launch of the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Friday 4 November 2016. The Environmental Humanities (EH) is a focus for…
Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change
Edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner © 2017 – Routledge | 298 pages | 60 Color Illus. | 50 B/W Illus. "I applaud the contributors to this book for their courage,…
Daniel May receives 2017 Moran Award
 Daniel May is the recipient of the 2017 Moran Award for History of Science Research. This award is aimed at postgraduate students and other researchers with expertise in the history of…
Tom Griffiths on the art of history writing on RN Books and Arts
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Professor Tom Griffiths AO is an examination of the challenges of writing about the past. Through portraits of fourteen historians, including…
New book: The Art of Time Travel
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and…
Photos from the 2016 PhD workshop
Students from Australia, New Zealand and around the world gathered for our eighth bienniel Environmental History PhD workshop from Monday 23 May to Friday 27 May, 2016. Course organisers and…