National Centre of Biography News, June 2025
This issue of the NCB News is jam-packed with the latest happenings in the world of biography. In it we hear about the launch of the tenth edition of the Dictionary of World Biography, celebrate a…
Launch of Barry Jones' Dictionary of World Biography
By Dr Stephen WilksThe Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones, public intellectual, former politician, and eternal polymath, is a very dangerous book indeed – but in the benign sense that once…
New addition to ANU Press' Biography Series
The latest addition to the NCB's 'Biography Series' with ANU Press has just been published: ‘I buy this piece of ground here’: An Italian market-gardener community in Adelaide, 1920s–1970s, by…
NCB director talks biography in Peru
NCB Director Professor Melanie Nolan has been talking biography in Lima, Peru.On Wednesday 7 May she gave a talk on 'The role of biographies in history' to an interdisciplinary group, the…
National Centre of Biography News, May 2025
In the May edition of the NCB News we report on our director Melanie Nolan's talk in Lima, Peru, and share various notices for upcoming events. There are also a few suggestions for your reading and…
National Centre of Biography News, April 2025
In this edition of the NCB News we report on 'The Privilege of Traiblazing' project, celebrate Dr Peter Woodley's new book, and share notices on various events and publications.
'We are a farming class': Dubbo's hinterland, 1870-1950
The NCB wishes to congratulate ADB research editor Dr Peter Woodley whose first book, 'We are a farming class': Dubbo's hinterland, 1870-1950, has just been published with ANU Press. …