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…
Publications in running for awards
Congratulations to Dr Maria Nugent and Dr Tiffany Shellam (a 2007 postgraduate student) for publications nominated for book awards. Dr Maria Nugent's book 'Captain Cook was Here' has been short…
Captain Cook was Here shortlisted for the Nettie Palmer Non-Fiction award
Maria Nugent’s Captain Cook was Here (Cambridge University Press) was shortlisted for the Nettie Palmer Non-Fiction award Judges’ Report: Captain Cook Was Here – Maria Nugent (Cambridge University…