This panel brings together three esteemed speakers to share approaches to our theme of "Oral History, Migration, Generation". Associate Professor Francesco Ricatti is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the Australian National University, where he is also the Deputy Head of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. He is a former Deputy and Acting Director […]
World Children’s Day, celebrated on November 20 each year, offers an opportunity to both look back on the history of childhood and of children’s rights and forward to the ways in which childhood is changing and child rights are contested. How do historians investigate and recover the lives, experiences and perspectives of children in the […]
While the idea of Cold War-era spies often evokes cliched images of James Bond or John La Carré, the reality of spies and surveillance in Cold War Australia was far stranger and far more interesting than any spy novel. Historians working with restricted or highly redacted material have increasingly shed light on these real life […]
Over the best part of a decade, we've been researching the history of Australian fathering and family life, from 1919 to the present day, working alongside a team that's also included John Murphy, Johnny Bell and Mike Roper. Drawing upon hundreds of oral history interviews from several national collections, as well as memoirs, wartime letters […]
Heatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory, erased by the drama of fire, flood and storm. Environmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian […]
