On Wednesday 15 May, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and University of NSW historian, Associate Professor Grace Karskens, presented the ANU School of History 2012 Allan Martin lecture, Shifting the shape of Australian history: Convicts, the early colonial period and the making of Australia.

Karskens' lecture questioned why Australian history still routinely quarantines our convict legacy and the early colonial period.

The lecture can be viewed on ANU's youtube page.

Image: Associate Professor Grace Karskens FAAH and Professor Angela Woollacott, Head, School of History