History of Indigenous work sheds light on Australian slavery
The exploitation of Indigenous Australian workers offers powerful insights into Australia's history of slavery, as well as the Black Lives Matter movement and deaths in custody, leading experts from…
Review of Nuclear Histories
In the second of the ANU’s Deep Conversations Series, co-organised by the Research Centre for Deep History and Research Centre of Environmental History, speakers and participants were encouraged to…
The Conversation publishes Friday Essay by ACIH Co-Director
On Friday, 9 April, The Conversation published ACIH Co-Director Maria Nugent's essay, 'Truth telling, Return to Uluru and reckoning with the sins of fathers', as its Friday Essay. The piece…
Research Leadership Program
Following an application and interview process, Ruth Morgan (Collaborating Scholar), Laura Rademaker (Deputy Director), and Mike Jones (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) have all been accepted into the…
Deputy Director Laura Rademaker visits NT communities
Laura Rademaker recently visited communities in Gunbalanya, Darwin and Jabiru to talk about on Country research plans. She spoke with the communities about rock art and deep history, and possible…
Life Sentences podcast
Of interest to NCB supporters Author, journalist, and former broadcaster Caroline Baum has created a new podcast ‘Life Sentences’ in which she talks to some of Australia’s best biographers. Both…
49 new ADB entries have been added for those who died in 1996
49 new entries for people who died in 1996 have been added to the Australian Dictionary of Biography website. They include playwright Betty Roland, environmentalist Milo Dunphy, opera singer Dame…