Shino Konishi's 'The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World' shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award for Australian History
ACIH historian Dr Shino Konishi's first book, The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (Pickering & Chatto) 2012 has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Australian History…
ANU Historians to deliver Greg Dening Lecture
On 8 August, Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam will present the annual Greg Dening Memorial Lecture hosted by the School of History at the University of Melbourne. The lecture was…
High Ideals and Heavy Rains: the Eglinton Tournament, 1839
In August 1839, the Eglinton Tournament, one of the most ambitious, widely-anticipated, and yet ill-fated efforts to revive the medieval past in Britain took place in western Scotland. Ever since…
Queen Victoria in the Colonies: Indigenous interpretations, ideas, interactions
Darren SiwesOz Omnium Rex et Regina (Silver woman) 2008 Image courtesy of the artist and Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. On 9 & 10 December 2013…
Inaugural Lecture Honour
School of History PhD candidate Anne Rees has delivered the inaugural Earle Hoffmann Memorial Lecture to the ACT Branch of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. The lecture, entitled, ‘“The…
Tom Griffiths at Griffith REVIEW forum
Join Griffith REVIEW editor, Julianne Schultz, and Now We Are Ten contributors, Michael Wesley, Anna Rose, Tom Griffiths and Desmond Manderson, in a broad-reaching discussion about regional,…
Black Saturday at Steels Creek
Peter Stanley, Scribe Publications, May 2013. The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died…