Hazel King obituary added
Ken Cable’s beautifully written obituary for historian Hazel King (1908-1997) was added to Obituaries Australia today. It was not until she was 40 years of age that Hazel got the chance to enrol for…
Biography Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his…
94 new ADB entries added to website
94 new entries for people who died in 1993 were added to Australian Dictionary of Biography website today. Troy Lovegrove (1986-1993) and Eve van Grafhorst (1982- 1993) are, by far, the youngest of ‘…
Biography Workshop
Date: Thursday 30 March 2017Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bldg. 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU)Time: 12 midday until about 1.30 p.m.Inquiries: malcolm.allbrook@anu.edu.au Libby…
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…
Special NCB Event
Professor Elleke Boehmer will join us on 21 February to talk about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life–a national leader whose life also had global…
Michael Chamberlain obituary
Read Michael Chamberlain's obituary in Obituaries Australia and the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for his daughter, Azaria.