Dr Chris Wallace a top thinker
National Centre of Biography staffer, Dr Chris Wallace’s essay, ‘Note to Liberals: on the leadership front, best to keep calm and carry on’, has been included in The Conversation’s 2017 Yearbook 50…
Related Histories: Studying the Family conference program
The full program for the National Centre of Biography’s Related Histories: Studying the Family conference, 28-29 November, to be held at the National Library of Australia is now available on the NCB'…
Armistice Day, 11/11/1918
As Australia’s first Minister for Repatriation, Edward Millen was responsible for overseeing the successful return of 160,000 fighting men to Australia after the Armistice on 11 November 1918, making…
Melbourne Cup
You can read an essay about the running of the first Melbourne Cup, as well as entries on Etienne de Mestre whose horse Archer won the race, and Victorian governor Sir Henry Barkly who presented de…
Albert (Tibby) Cotter and the Battle of Beersheba, 1917
Champion cricketer Albert (Tibby) Cotter was one of the Australian soldiers who lost their life during the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917. We have his story in the Australian Dictionary of…
Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography
Read ADB managing editor Malcolm Allbrook’s article about our exciting and timely new project, the Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography, in the online journal The Conversation. You can help…
Obituaries for Anne Deveson and Georgia Blain
Read the recently added obituaries for broadcaster, writer, filmmaker and social commentator Anne Deveson and her equally brilliant daughter the writer Georgia Blain in Obituaries Australia.…