Congratulations to AHA Vice-President Kate Fullagar, whose 2023 book Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled recently took out an ACT Literary Award for nonfiction publishing! The judges celebrated this ‘imaginative,
Congratulations to Tess Scholfield-Peters on the publication of Dear Mutzi: A Story of Love, Escape and Finding the Forgotten (NLA Publishing). In this book, Tess tells her grandfather’s story of
Congratulations to Merry E. Weisner-Hanks and Matthew Kuefler, editors of the recently published four-volume Cambridge World History of Sexualities (CUP). The four volumes are respectively organised around ‘General Overviews’, ‘Systems
The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Thursday 27 June 2024, 6.00pm to 7.00pm AEST The History Council of Victoria’s third Book+Author seminar for 2024 will feature Alexandra Roginski, Melbourne-based historian, writer and
The Pavilion, Monash University, Monday 10 June 2024, 5.30pm to 7.00pm AEST Join Fay Anderson for the launch of The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Congratulations to Ross L Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton on the publication of their edited volume Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, vol.
Congratulations to Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow and Robert Reynolds on the publication of Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia (Monash University Publishing). Personal
Congratulations to Iain McCalman on the publication of John Büsst: Bohemian Artist and Saviour of Reef and Rainforest (NewSouth). Known to his enemies as ‘The Bingil Bay Bastard’, John Büsst,
Congratulations to Shannyn Palmer, winner of the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize. Shannyn’s Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station (MUP, 2022) was selected from a
Congratulations to Michael Finch on the publication of Making Makers: The Past, The Present, and the Study of War (Oxford University Press). Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a
Congratulations to Nicholas Ferns and Angela Villani on the publication of their edited collection International Organizations and Global Development (De Gruyter Oldenbourg). This volume, featuring nine informative and dynamic chapters
Congratulations to Catharine Coleborne on the publication of Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australia: Regulating Mobility, 1840—1910 (Bloomsbury Academic). This book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples
Congratulations to History Australia editorial team member Kate Fullagar, whose 2023 book Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled (Scribner) has been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year nonfiction
Congratulations to AHA President Frank Bongiorno and Nick Dyrenfurth on the publication of an updated edition of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (NewSouth). Originally published in 2011,
Congratulations to AHA ECR Fellow Matthew Firth on the publication of Early English Queens, 850—1000: Potestas Reginae (Routledge). This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between
