Afterburn: The emotional legacy of bushfire
In the forests and valleys of the Victorian ranges, Aboriginal people knew March as the Eel Season, a time when hot winds ceased, temperatures cooled and eels were ready to be harvested from the…
Environmental History PhD Workshop 2014
Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra 26–30 May, 2014 Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at…
Shortlist honour for Martin Thomas
The Many Worlds of R H Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas has been shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Winners will be announced…
The Future of Nature wins prize
The Future of Nature (Libby Robin, Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin eds., Yale UP) has won best Anthology in the 2013 New England Book Festival in the United States. Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, and…
Biography Footnotes, no 12, 2013
The latest edition of the NCB's newsletter, Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. In it you will find transcripts of Malcolm Turnbull’s speech at the launch of The ADB’s Story and Gareth…
Claim Sunk by Pen of a Swordsman
In December 2002, when the High Court of Australia rejected the final appeal in the Yorta Yorta native title case, a headline in The Age announced: ‘Claim sunk by pen of a swordsman’. The man in…
Writing the History of Canberra - Audio now available
On 30 October, amid the heritage listed architecture and graceful decor of University House, a panel of distinguished writers: Frank Moorhouse, Lenore Coltheart, Susan Mary Withycombe,…