VALE PROFESSOR EMERITA BERYL RAWSON
Professor Emerita Beryl Rawson died in Canberra on Friday 22 October, aged 77. A historian of ancient Rome, her publications included Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and her most…
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D.
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D. John McNeill Georgetown University Public Lecture Tuesday 26 October 2010 5-6.30 pm Venue: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU We live in an era…
Biography Footnotes, no 6, 2010
The latest issue of the NCB's newsletter Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. Read about our latest staff news as well as conferences recently held and forthcoming; Mark St Leon, a…
Visitor - Margriet Fokken
Margriet Fokken is working as a research-assistant on an ARC-funded project named ‘Settler society in the Australian Colonies’ of Professor Angela Woollacott. This project is focussing on the…
Report - The Life of Information Symposium
The Life of Information – a one-symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias and collections – was hosted by the National Centre of Biography (NCB) at the Australian National…
Early Australasian Press Biographies
The Centre for Media History at Macquarie University is hosting a one-day symposium on biographical approaches in press history. Date: 23 November 2010Venue: State Library of New South Wales,…
New book - Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, Mandy Martin CSIRO PUBLISHING, 352 pages, Hardback, Colour illustrations, ISBN:9780643097490, $59.95. Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history…