Allan Martin Lecture Series 2024: “What is History in a Settler Colonial Society?"
Professor Anna Clark (UTS) delivered the 2024 Allan Martin lecture on 23 July. She is a leading Australian historian, and author of Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian…
National Centre of Biography News, July 2024
In the July edition of the NCB newsletter, Dr Emily Gallagher shares her thoughts on the possibilities of drawing together children's history and biography. We also celebrate a major…
An extra-ordinary collaboration
The NCB's online and outreach manager, Dr Michelle Staff, has reviewed the ABC series Tony Armstrong's Extra-Ordinary Things and the accompanying exhibition at the National Museum of Australia for…
Keynote address & thesis prize for early career historian
The past week has been an extra exciting one for the NCB's research editor and children's historian Dr Emily Gallagher. On Thursday 4 July Emily was announced as the winner of the…
Welcome to Maria Nugent, new Head of School
The ANU Research School of Social Sciences is proud to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Maria Nugent as the new Head of the School of History, following Professor Carolyn Strange in…
Reimagining the ADB
The latest issue of the Australian Book Review (no. 466, July 2024) includes an article by the National Centre of Biography's director, Prof. Melanie Nolan, and outreach manager, Dr Michelle Staff.…
National Centre of Biography News, June 2024
In this month's issue of the NCB News, get a glimpse of what happens day-to-day in the NCB corridor. Plus read about the latest news, notices and publications.