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25.01.2022 NAA-AHA Postgraduate Scholarships Applications Still Open The National Archives of Australia/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships assist talented postgraduate scholars with the cost of copying records held in the Archives. Students enrolled in a Masters or PhD degree in history are invited to apply for the four scholarships. Applications close 5pm 31 March 2021. ... https://www.theaha.org.au//national-archives-of-australia/

25.01.2022 *Applications for the AHA's postgraduate essay prize - the Jill Roe Prize -are still open!* The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually by the AHA for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a postgraduate student. The Award will consist of a cash payment of $150, a citation and consideration for publication in 'History Australia'. Applications due 31 March 2021... http://www.theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/jill-roe-prize/

25.01.2022 Attention ECRs: applications for the Allan Martin Award close soon! Funding of up to $4000 is awarded every year to assist towards the expenses of a research trip (please note there are special conditions for 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic) undertaken in support of a project in Australian history. https://www.theaha.org.au/awards-an/the-allan-martin-award/

24.01.2022 Due to ongoing issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising committee of the 2021 Australian Historical Association Annual Conference have pushed the conference back to 29 November to 2 December 2021. This revised timing represents the best chance for this conference to be primarily face-to-face, subject to the pandemic. More information (including a CFP) will follow but members are encouraged to put the revised dates in their diaries.

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Niro Kandasamy and AHA member Mia Martin Hobbs who are the recipients of the inaugural Contemporary Histories Research Group Award in History and Policy. This award provides $10,000 each to two early career researchers to undertake research in an area of history that relates to a significant issue of contemporary Australian public policy. https://aph.org.au//contemporary-histories-research-group/

22.01.2022 CALL FOR PAPERS | AHA 2021 CONFERENCE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! We're accepting submissions for our annual conference #AHA2021 exploring themes around the unfinished business of history. Let us know what you think about the impact of history in today's world and submit your paper by 31 May! More info at:

21.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA members Romain Fathi and Emily Robertson for the publication of Proximity and Distance: Space Time and World War I, which explores how participants and observers in World War I negotiated the temporal and spatial challenges of the conflict. https://www.mup.com.au//proximity-and-distance-paperback-s

21.01.2022 2020 Kay Daniels Award Winner The Kay Daniels Award recognises outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history and heritage including in its international context, published in 2018 or 2019. Congratulations to Hilary M. Carey for Empire of Hell. Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875.

21.01.2022 History Australia Urgent Histories Forum The AHA is pleased to announce that the upcoming issue of History Australia features a forum responding to the theme of urgent histories. The forum consists of three papers with a response by Paul Kramer: Here we stand: temporal thinking in urgent times by Tamson Pietsch and Frances Flanagan; Doing environmental history in urgent times by Katie Holmes, Andrea Gaynor and Ruth Morgan; and Training historians in urgent times... by Yves Rees and Ben Huf. These articles will be published online and free to access from 15 June 2020: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/current Over that week, historians from across Australia will respond to these considerations and provocations in series of blog posts. For details: https://www.theaha.org.au/urgent-histories-forum/

20.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Karen Downing and co-editors for the publication of How Gender can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact. This book turns a spotlight on gender innovation in the social sciences. Scholars across five disciplines economics, history, philosophy, political science and sociology demonstrate how paying attention to gender can sharpen the focus of the social sciences, improve the public policy they inform, and change the way we measure things. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43236-2

19.01.2022 CALL FOR PAPERS | AHA 2021 CONFERENCE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS Attention all history lovers! If you haven't already, you can still submit a paper to present at our annual conference #AHA2021, exploring themes around the unfinished business of history. More info

19.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Mark Dunn for the publication of The Convict Valley. The book examines the impact of the British invasion and use of the valley as a penal station between 1804 and 1821, the environmental impact of the convict coal mines and timber getting and then the opening of the valley to emigrant farmers in the wake of J.T. Bigges report on the state of the colony. It considers the forgotten frontier of the Hunter Valley, the resistance of Aboriginal people and the emergence of a convict, working class community in the towns that developed. https://www.allenandunwin.com//The-Convict-Valley-Mark-Dun

19.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Jennifer Debenham for the publication of Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors: Changing Aboriginalities and Australian Documentary Film, 1901 - 2017. Taking a long historical perspective, the book traces the growth of Indigenous film making as a form of resistance to the imposition of colonialism. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/71252

18.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Michael Bennett for the publication of War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination. The book provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenners achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. https://www.cambridge.org//6DEA4EBEECD50174762603CE38F8B9EC

17.01.2022 The AHA Executive Committee is delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2020 AHA biennial prizes and awards. We would like to thank the judges for their work in arriving at their shortlists. The AHA and judges congratulate all the historians on the lists. Magarey Medal for Biography Shortlist (alphabetical order) Helen Ennis, Olive Cotton. A Life in Photography Mary Hoban, An Unconventional Wife. The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold... Suzanne Robinson, Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic Angela Woollacott, Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia Clare Wright, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World Serle Award Shortlist (alphabetical order) Kylie Andrews, Australian broadcastings female pilgrims: Women and work in the post-war ABC. Mia Martin Hobbs, Nostalgia and the Warzone Home: American and Australian Veterans Return to Viet Nam, 1981-2016. Annmarie McLaren, Negotiating Entanglement: Reading Aboriginal- Colonial Exchanges in Early New South Wales, 1788 1835 Alexandra Roginski, A Touch of Power. Popular Phrenology in the Tasman World. Kay Daniels Award Shortlist (alphabetical order) Hilary Carey, Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire 1788-1875 James Dunk, Bedlam at Botany Bay Dianne Snowden, White Rag Burning. Irish women committing arson to be transported Hancock Prize Shortlist (alphabetical order) Iva Glisic, The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics and Ideology in Russia, 1905-1930 Charlotte Greenhalgh, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain Samia Khatun, Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia Laura Rademaker, Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission Ben Silverstein, Governing Natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australias North Winners will be announced at the AHA AGM on Thursday 2 July. Prize details and available citations can be found via the link: https://www.theaha.org.au/2020-aha-prizes-and-awards-short/

17.01.2022 A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This weeks entry contains a Q&A with ECRs and AHA Executive Committee members Romain Fathi and Lyndon Megarrity on their You Matter ECR survey and casualisation within the history profession and Australian Universities more broadly. https://ahaecr.wordpress.com//qa-on-you-matter-the-ahas-c/

17.01.2022 Some members didn't receive their Australian Historical Association newsletter last night - we have identified the problem and reckon it should be right by next week. In the meantime, you can access the newsletter on the AHA website - even if you're not an AHA member! https://www.theaha.org.au/aha-newsletter-3-december-2020/ The AHA publishes a newsletter weekly, February-December. It contains announcements of new books, jobs, events, conference and journal call for papers, grant and award opportunities, and important news on the state of the profession. It is for historians both of and in Australia.

17.01.2022 History Australia 2020 Ann Curthoys Prize Winner The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the fields in which Ann has published. Congratulations to Laura Rademaker for A history of Deep Time: Indigenous knowledges and deep pasts in settler-colonial presents. Congratulations also to Highly Commended Mike Jones, The Temple of History: historians and the sacralisation of archival work.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Margaret Hutchison and co-editor Steven Trout for the publication of Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory and the First World War. The book examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volumes overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms. http://uapress.ua.edu//978-0-8173-9281-9-Portraits-of-Reme

15.01.2022 Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary Recipients The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the inaugural Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary. The scheme, set up in honour of Dr Patrick Wolfe, assists an early career researcher participate in the AHA annual conference and attend the conference dinner. There was a competitive field and we are delighted to announce the successful joint recipients. We look forward to seeing their papers at the 2021 AHA Conference. Warm congratulations to Jill Beard and Max Kaiser.

14.01.2022 CALL FOR PAPERS | AHA 2021 CONFERENCE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers is now open for the 2021 AHA Conference, to be held at UNSW and the State Library of NSW from 29 November until 2 December 2021. The theme is 'Unfinished Business'. Deadline: 31 May 2021... Find out more on the conference website: https://www.ahaconference2021.com/

14.01.2022 The AHA is pleased to announce the award of the 2020 AHA/Copyright Agency Travel and Writing Bursaries for recipients to attend the 2021 AHA conference at UNSW. Funding for this Scheme is generously provided by the Copyright Agency, an Australian copyright management company that provides a bridge between creators and users of copyright material. The AHA provides support by waiving the conference registration fee and conducting workshops and a mentoring program for successful... applicants. We congratulate all recipients and recognise that excellent applicants missed out. Those awarded full bursaries are: Cassandra Byrnes, Tim Calabria, Emma Carson, Portia Dilena, Averyl Gaylor, Caroline Ingram, Lian Jenvey and Lee Sulkowska. Half Bursaries were awarded to Cameron Coventry, Paige Gleeson, Daniel May and Pearl Nunn. The AHA has also invited the following applicants to participate in the mentoring and workshop scheme: Tom Gardner, Frieda Moran, Janet Peters and Jimmy Yan.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Michelle Arrow, who has been awarded the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia. The judges praised the work as an intensely immediate and relevant history of the 1970s [which] brings to light the astonishing politics of a remarkable decade. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au//dr-michelle-arrow-awarded-202

13.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Rosalie Triolo on being made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria for significant services to History education, RHSV and promotion of Victorias history and heritage. https://www.historyvictoria.org.au//Triolo-Rosalie-Fellows

12.01.2022 2020-2022 AHA Executive Committee Members At the AHA AGM, held online on Thursday 2 July at 5.00pm, the following office bearers and ordinary members were elected to the Executive Committee: President: Melanie Oppenheimer... Vice President: Frank Bongiorno Secretary: Noah Riseman Treasurer: Romain Fathi Ordinary Members: Nancy Cushing, Benjamin Jones, Amanda Nettelbeck, Emily OGorman and Laura Rademaker Postgraduate rep: Joshua Black ECR rep: Chelsea Barnett, Joel Barnes and Anna Temby Immediate Past President: Joy Damousi Digital Humanities Rep: Tim Sherratt Secondary History Teacher Rep: Ines Dunstan Conference Convenors: Ruth Balint and Bart Ziino History Australia Editors Michelle Arrow, Kate Fullagar and Leigh Boucher Executive Officer: Daniel May will be covering for Bethany Phillips-Peddlesden for the rest of 2020. Sincere thanks go to the outgoing Executive Committee for their amazing work, and congratulations to the new EC.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Sue Silberberg for the publication of A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century. The book highlights the role of the Jewish community as developers and builders, and their influence on the formation of the urban fabric of the city as it first formed. https://www.mup.com.au//a-networked-community-paperback-so

12.01.2022 The Australian Historical Association has written a letter to members of the crossbench, urging them to vote against the Commonwealth governments proposed cuts to humanities funding. You can read these letters here: https://www.theaha.org.au/aha-urges-vote-against-proposed-/ We also urge members - especially those located in the constituencies of Senator Lambie and the Centre Alliance - to contact their representatives individually if you havent done so already.

11.01.2022 The AHA was pleased to open applications for the AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorship Scheme in December. The Scheme offers invaluable mentoring and $1500 stipend to ECR historians to develop their skills. Specifically, it will link Early Career Researchers with senior historians who will mentor them in the development of new and innovative works of historical scholarship, in the form of articles that will be published in leading journals, and a short article in a public outlet. Applications are due 29 January 2021. Full details of the Scheme are available on the AHA website: https://www.theaha.org.au//aha-copyright-agency-early-car/

11.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Wendy Michaels who was awarded an Order of Australia Medal - OAM - General Division in the 2020 Queens Birthday Honours List for service to women, and to the dramatic arts.

10.01.2022 AHA/Honest History: AHA Conference 2020 Teacher Scholarship Recipients The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the AHA/Honest History Teacher Scholarship. The scheme supports a secondary school History teacher to attend the annual Australian Historical Association Conference to promote engagement between History teachers and the broader historical community. Funding for this scheme is made possible by a generous donation from Honest History which supports balanced and honest history writing in Australia. There was a competitive field and we are delighted to announce the successful joint recipients. We look forward to seeing their papers at the 2021 AHA Conference. Warm congratulations to Elsbeth Grant and Rohan Lloyd.

10.01.2022 2019 History Australia Marian Quartly Prize The Marian Quartly Prize is for the best article published in the AHAs journal History Australia in a calendar year. Congratulations to Jeremy Martens for The Mrs Freer case revisited: marriage, morality and the state in interwar Australia, History Australia 16.3 (2019).

10.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Nicole Chalmer for the publication of 'Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future'. The book describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7963/

10.01.2022 The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the 2020 NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships, which provide assistance with digitisation of material held by the National Archives. The judges noted the successful applicants had exciting, diverse and challenging research projects, and we congratulate the four recipients: Yianni Cartledge for the project Aegean Islander Migration to the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, 1815-1930: Emigration, Community Building and I...ntegration; Bolin Hu for the project All for China: The Propaganda Efforts of the Chinese Government and Community in Australia, 1931-1949; Kate Kirby for the project High performance sport in regional Queensland, 1970-2020: a prosopographical analysis of drivers; and Julia Russoniello for the project Looking Forward, Listening Back. Australian violinists of the Golden Age rediscovered through performance markings and historic sonic information. See more

10.01.2022 The Australian Historical Association was delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 annual and biennial prizes and awards on Thursday 2 July 2020 at the AHA Annual General Meeting. The judges for all prizes were impressed with the quality of submissions, which made their job extremely difficult. Congratulations to all those shortlisted, highly commended and prize winners. Details to follow.

09.01.2022 2020 Serle Award Winner The Serle Award is given biennially to the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History awarded during the previous two years. Congratulations to Annemarie McLaren, Negotiating Entanglement: Reading Aboriginal- Colonial Exchanges in Early New South Wales, 1788 1835. Congratulations also to commended work by Mia Martin Hobbs, Nostalgia and the Warzone Home: American and Australian veterans return to Vit Nam, 1981-2016.

08.01.2022 Notice of AHA Annual General Meeting 2020 Thursday 2 July 2020, 5.00-6.00pm, Zoom meeting (link to be sent to those who rsvp prior to meeting) The 2020 AHA AGM will take place as scheduled, despite the cancellation of the AHA annual Conference due to COVID-19. The meeting is open to all financial members of the AHA and we strongly encourage you to attend. The Agenda and other documentation will be circulated closer to the date, but please make note of the time and date. Your presence is welcome and needed!

08.01.2022 2020 Jill Roe Prize Winner The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical enquiry, produced by a postgraduate student enrolled for a History degree at an Australian university. Congratulations to Karen Twigg for Dust, dryness and departure: constructions of masculinity and femininity during the WW11 drought. Congratulations also to highly commended: Lauren Samuelsson, From Nutrition to Glamour: The Australian Womens Weekly cookery editors, 1930s-1970s.

07.01.2022 Australian Historical Association responds to announcement of increased costs of humanities subjects The Australian Historical Association expresses its dismay and fierce disapproval to the significant increase in costs for undertaking humanities undergraduate subjects announced today by the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan. This decision is severely short-sighted and reveals a lack of understanding of the vital importance of humanities training for the employees of tomorro...w. It is unnecessarily punitive and displays a remarkably narrow view of the very purpose of a tertiary education that promotes critical inquiry and critical thinking, creativity, ethics and communication. The recent crises of the bushfires and the pandemic amply demonstrates that human centred decision making of the sort that training in the humanities promotes is more vital than ever. We urge the Minister to rethink this funding model which will place the humanities in a perilous and vulnerable state now and into the future. See more

06.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Liam Byrne for the publication of Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: Their early political careers and the making of the modern Labor Party. Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives as both men became labour intellectuals and powerbrokers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It reveals the underappreciated role each man played in the events that defined the modern Australian Labor Party. https://www.mup.com.au//becoming-john-curtin-and-james-scu

04.01.2022 Congratulations to those longlisted for the International Federation for Research in Womens HIstory Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Womens and Gender History, including AHA member Marilyn Lake for Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform. The winner will be announced in August 2020. http://www.ifrwh.com/book-prize

04.01.2022 2020 W. K. Hancock Prize Winner The Hancock Prize recognises and encourages an Australian scholar who has published a first book in any field of history in 2018 or 2019. Congratulations to Laura Rademaker for her work Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission. Citation below:

04.01.2022 'History Australia' 2020 Ann Curthoys Prize Winner The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the fields in which Ann has published. Congratulations to Laura Rademaker for ‘A history of Deep Time: Indigenous knowledges and deep pasts in settler-colonial presents’. Congratulations also to Highly Commended Mike Jones, ‘The Temple of History: historians and the sacralisation of archival work’.

04.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA members Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott for the publication of How the Personal became Political: The Feminist and Sexual Revolutions in 1970s Australia. This edited collection was first published as a Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 33, No. 95, March 2018, and includes articles by AHA members Susan Magarey, Isobelle Barrett Meyering and Noah Riseman. https://www.routledge.com//Arrow-Wool/p/book/9780367472528

04.01.2022 2020 Magarey Medal for Biography Winner The Magarey Medal is awarded biennially to the female person who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject. It is jointly administered by the Australian Historical Association and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). Congratulations to Helen Ennis for Olive Cotton. A Life in Photography.

04.01.2022 Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Recipients The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme. The scheme provides financial assistance to facilitate participation in the AHA annual conference and was made possible by a generous bequest from Professor Emerita Jill Roe (19402017), an historian who made a very significant contribution to the writing, teaching and public communication of history in Australia and abroad. There was a very competitive field and the judges were impressed with the high quality of all applications. We are delighted to announce the successful applicants and look forward to seeing their papers at the 2021 AHA Conference. Warm congratulations to Kylie Andrews, Jill Beard, Nicole Chalmer, Max Kaiser and Marama Whyte.

03.01.2022 CALL FOR PAPERS | AHA 2021 CONFERENCE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS The Uluru Statement, Black Lives Matter protests, toppled statues and the Whitlam Dismissal are just a few examples of history’s unfinished business in the contemporary world. On the eve of its 40th anniversary, the Australian Historical Association Conference returns to the University of New South Wales where it held its first conference in 1982 and invites papers exploring the unfinished business of history. What's your take on these controversial issues? Submit your paper for #AHA2021 by 31 May!

02.01.2022 2019 'History Australia' Marian Quartly Prize The Marian Quartly Prize is for the best article published in the AHA's journal History Australia in a calendar year. Congratulations to Jeremy Martens for ‘The Mrs Freer case revisited: marriage, morality and the state in interwar Australia,’ History Australia 16.3 (2019).

02.01.2022 2020 Allan Martin Award Winners The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship to assist early career historians further their research in Australian history. Congratulations to joint winners Alexandra Dellios for Remembering Migrant Protest and Activism: the Migrant Rights Movement in pre-Multicultural Australia and Mike Jones for Culture, common law, and science: representing deep human history in Australian museums.

01.01.2022 Congratulations to AHA member Pat Wheatley and Charlotte Dunn for the publication of Demetrius the Besieger. The work offers the first historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Demetrius was known as The Besieger of Cities, and presided over the disintegration of Alexander the Greats Empire after 323 BC. Demetrius was prodigious in his military adventures, and profligate in his private life, rendering him an icon for artists, writers, politicians, and soldiers for many centuries. The period is of crucial importance in ancient Greek history, and marks the point from which Hellenistic influence became fundamental in the development of modern Western culture. https://global.oup.com//demetrius-the-besieger-97801988360&

01.01.2022 A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This weeks entry by Tamara Cooper writes about pursuing a teaching career, emphasising that we need to think in different and healthier ways about the employment options and career goals of higher degree research students. https://ahaecr.wordpress.com//why-im-choosing-to-leave-ac/