Peter Stanley wins Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
Peter Stanley is the joint winner of the 2010-2011 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Judges said his book, Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Great War, is a ‘bracing…
Something New Under the New Zealand and Australian Sun!
The general meeting of the Australian Forest History Society has adopted a motion to change the name of the AFHS to the New Zealand and Australian Environmental and…
ACIH Indigenous History Writing Workshop for Postgraduates
Professor Ann McGrath and ACIH Adjunct Professor Ann Curthoys held an Indigenous History Writing Workshop for Postgraduates in November 2011 at ANU. Students from Perth, Sydney, Melbourne…
Living Country Culture Camp in the Blue Mountains
'Deepening Histories' project team members (L to R) Julia Torpey, Ann McGrath and Peter Read recently attended the 'Living Country Culture Camp' at Bent's Basin in the Blue Mountains…
Serving Our Country ARC Linkage grant application submitted
After many months of work, the ARC Linkage grant application for Serving Our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Defence of Australia was…
2011 Minoru Hokari Scholarship winner Glen Stasiuk's research on the Swan River Colony
Glen Stasiuk, the 2011 winner of the Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship, has begun research on his scholarship topic, Swan River Colony (1829-1834): From Collaboration to Conflict by…
Publication news: Volume 35 Aboriginal History now online
Aboriginal History, Volume 35, 2011 is now available online. It includes articles by Grace Karskens, Leah Lui-Chivizhe, Noah Riseman and Ian D. Clark, as well as a special section on Indigenous…