Stephen Wilks: Earle Page, 1890–1961
Workshop
Stephen Wilks will talk about his researches into the remarkable but little studied Earle Christmas Grafton Page – Country Party leader, Treasurer, Prime Minister and perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in the Australian Commonwealth.
True Biographies of Nations? Exploring the Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Conference
Stephen Baxter, The Australian Crowd, 2014. In 2004, the chairman of the supervisory committee of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Keith Thomas, concluded the Leslie Stephen Special Lecture by expressing his hope that the genre of the biographical dictionary would develop into a “…
Phil Butterss: C.J. Dennis
Workshop
Dr Philip Butterss will talk about C.J. Dennis, whose best-selling books The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and The Moods of Ginger Mick made him a literary celebrity during the First World War and beyond, and are credited by some as helping to shape the ANZAC legend.
Paul Pickering: Understanding Prosopography
Workshop
Paul Pickering will speak on the subject ‘Understanding Prosopography: a discussion about using collective lives’.
Gabrielle Carey: Randolph Stow
Workshop
Gabrielle Carey will talk about Randolph Stow as self-exile and the challenges of writing about an Australian writer who appeared to reject the country that was the source of so much of his inspiration. She will also talk briefly about the genre of bibliomemoir in relation to her work-in-progress…
Chris Wallace: Memoirs of Sheila Fitzpatrick and Biff Ward
Workshop
Chris Wallace, will consider doctoral studies as a crucible for change in the memoirs of historian Sheila Fitzpatrick and writer Biff Ward. Doctoral studies led each to move from Australia to Britain in the early 1960s. Fitzpatrick undertook a DPhil in Soviet History at the University of Oxford.…
Stephen Foster: Microhistory
Workshop
Stephen Foster will talk about microhistory – a small story with potentially large meanings.