2024 Minoru Hokari Scholarship will open soon!
The 2024 applications for the Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship will open on 8 April and will close at midnight on 17 May 2024. The scholarship offers $5000 to be used towards conducting…
Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 8
The eighth issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History has been published and is now available for purchase and free download from ANU Press here. Edited by Dr Malcolm…
Winner of the 2023 Australian Legal History Competition
In a presentation at the Supreme Court of NSW, ANU Arts-Law student Archie Horneman-Wren was announced as the winner of the 2023 Australian Legal History Competition. The prize was presented by the…
History honours student wins University Medal
The School of History congratulates University medallist Wyatt Raynal, who completed his honours program in history in 2023. The award recognises his record of 'exceptional academic excellence'.…
Zoe Smith wins the Kelly Award and NLA Scholarship
HDR Student Zoe Smith has received the 2023 Max Kelly Award for a work of excellence in any aspect of Australian history. She received the award for her essay, ‘A prisoner on the rack’: Marital rape…
ANU Historian Frank Bongiorno Wins ACT Book of the Year Award for Political History of Australia
Frank Bongiorno, professor of history at the Australian National University (ANU), has won the 2023 ACT Book of the Year award for his book Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia.…
Exploring Women's Roles and Authority in the Medieval World
On Friday 17 November 2023, a one-day workshop titled "Women, Gender and Authority in the Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval World" was organised by Dr. Meaghan McEvoy and her medievalist…