Recovered Lives: 28 Australian women who disappeared from history
To celebrate International Women's Day, the National Centre of Biography, Inside Story and the Canberra Times have published obituaries of 28 Australian women whose achievements have been forgotten…
A Key Connection – Professor Nicholas Brown
The former Head of School, Professor Nicholas Brown, has been featured in the latest edition of the ANU reporter. In an article written by Adam Spence, Professor Brown discusses his research into the…
Putting historical research into practice: My Aurora internship at AIATSIS
A short fifteen-minute walk down the Acton Peninsula from the ANU’s School of History will take you to AIATSIS—the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. A treasure…
Commemoration of the life and work of Deborah Bird Rose
When: Sunday 24 March, 1-4pm Where: Fitzpatrick Park, Georges River National Park (details below) Please RSVP online by Saturday 16 March: Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018) was an…
"Summer Scholar” Alexandra McKinnon at the Australian War Memorial
Over the summer break, the ANU School of History student, Alexandra McKinnon has been researching on Australian impressions of the British Empire in the period 1899–1919 at the Australian War…
White grief, happy friendship: Jane Goodale and emotional anthropological research
Abstract: 'In the 1950s, anthropologist Jane Goodale had bright hopes for her informant Happy Cook, an Aboriginal girl from the Tiwi Islands in North Australia, who she considered constrained by…
Writing the Country
The CEH's Tom Griffiths and Cameron Muir have essays in the environment edition of Griffith Review, 'Writing the Country', edited by Julianne Schultz and Ashley Hay. The planet is alive: Radical…