Art of Time Travel wins 2017 Ernest Scott Prize
The History Program at The University of Melbourne has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. The prize is awarded to work based upon original research which is, in…
Seminar: Gathering histories for ecological restoration: Restoring with not to the past
Lilian Pearce 22 March 2017 11:30am-12:30pm Fenner Seminar Room, Building #141 Linnaeus Way, ANU Responding to the changing use of history in ecological restoration, this work attends to…
Seminar: Plagues and Players
An environmental and scientific history of Australia’s southern locusts Ted Deveson 22 March 2017 9.30–10.30am Fenner Seminar Room, Building #141 Linnaeus Way, ANU Digitised…
Biography Footnotes
Read the latest issue of the National Centre of Biography's newsletter, Biography Footnotes. In it you will find an obituary for the ADB’s great friend Jill Roe, as well a review of her recent book…
Review of Long History, Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place
Professor Mark McKenna (University of Sydney) has written a glowing review of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History publication ‘Long History, Deep Time: Deepening Histories of Place’. …
Breakfast to mark the start of the academic year
We recently marked the beginning of the academic year at the Centre for Environmental History with a backyard breakfast. The social gathering presented us with the opportunity to welcome…
National Landscapes: The Australian Literary Community and Environmental Thought, 1934–1948
Jayne Reagan School of History Seminar Series Wednesday 15 March, 4.15–5.30pm McDonald Room, Menzies Library, Fellows Road, ANU Through a fusion of historical, literary, and environmental…