Andrew May and Stuart Macintyre have recently joined the Heritage Council of Victoria, an independent statutory body appointed by the Governor-in-Council which has a range of functions under the Heritage
Rosalie Triolo will present the History Council of South Australia Annual Lectures on 7 & 8 August 2015. Her talk, ‘Our Schools and the Great War’ will throw new light
Deborah Wilson’s Different White People: Radical Activism For Aboriginal Rights 1946-1972 (UWA Publishing) presents a trilogy of stories about campaigns for Aboriginal rights in which an eclectic group of people
Robin Derricourt’s Antiquity Imagined: The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East (I.B. Tauris) explores how Egypt’s past has been creatively interpreted by later ages and shows in
In Kin: A Real People’s History of Our Nation (Hardie Grant) Nick Brodie traces his family tree back to some of the earliest white arrivals in the Australia to uncover
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Any Australian who lived through the Second World War would remember the frightening posters warning that ‘Enemy Agents are Listening’ and ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’ The Fifth Column was the
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Out of relentless research, Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt’s Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose (Wakefield Press) presents an engrossing portrait of the short twentieth century from Rose’s
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with The Australian Historical Association, is excited to announce the joint winners of the 2015 Ernest Scott Prize are Alan
Using images – some never seen publicly before – and oral history interviews (including the Rozelle Hospital Oral History Collection) Roslyn Burge has created a fascinating insight into the former
Michael L Ondaatje (with Anthony J Barker) has just published A Little America in Western Australia: The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth
The contributions to this collection edited by Ann McGrath and Mary Anne Jebb ignite the possibilities of what the spaces and expanses of history might be. The authors reflect upon the need for appropriate, feasible
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Tanya Evans’s Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales (NewSouth Books) uses the extensive archives of The Benevolent Society, Australia’s first charity founded in 1813, to reclaim unknown
