Drawing Ntaria: Arrernte child artists, 1938-9
By Dr Emily GallagherIn late June I had the privilege of spending several days on Arrernte Country in Central Australia. It was the last adventure for my book, Playtime, which comes out later this…
Dr Shauna Bostock selected for the ABC TOP 5 media residency
On 20 June the winners of the ABC TOP 5 media residency were announced. We were delighted to learn that Dr Shauna Bostock, Indigenous research editor with the Australian Dictionary of Biography, was…
ADB Medal awarded to Dr Patricia Clarke
On 24 June Dr Patricia Clarke became the 27th recipient of the ADB Medal, which was awarded in recognition of her many and varied contributions to the ADB. The presentation was made at a ceremony at…
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…