International Review of Environmental History - First issue!
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental…
Alison Pouliot on ABC TV's Gardening Australia
Alison Pouliot teaches viewers about the wonders of fungi on ABC TV's Gardening Australia: JANE EDMANSON: Out in the bush, like here on Mount Macedon as well as in everyone's backyard, we are…
Upwelling: an environmental history of the Southern Ocean
Researcher: Joy McCann The oceanic realm encircling the globe in the high southern latitudes has long exerted a powerful force on Western imagination, and shaped Indigenous and settler histories in…
Fire in Australia
Daniel May's research explores the history of fire within Australia. He is focusing upon the associations drawn between indigenous cultures and fire within settler societies, and how these…
For the Public Good: the role of government in early Australian agricultural innovation, 1788-1860
Chris Taylor is researching the Colonial Government’s role in the establishment of agriculture in Australia between 1788 and 1860. The research will focus on the government’s influence in driving…
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery - New Book
By Alexandra Roginski 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will…
On the frontier: the intriguing dance of history and fiction
Read Tom Griffiths' essay on the intriguing dance of history and fiction in The Conversation: At the Brisbane Writers’ Festival some years ago, novelist Peter Carey responded to relentless…