Playtime shortlisted for two awards
Dr Emily Gallagher's book Playtime: A history of Australian childhood (La Trobe, 2025) has been shortlisted for not one but two awards this month. The W.K. Hancock Prize is awarded to an…
The ADB on ABC Radio
From June, the Australian Dictionary of Biography will feature in a regular weekly segment on ABC Radio Canberra. Every Wednesday afternoon around 3.15pm, someone from the Dictionary team will…
National Centre of Biography News, June 2026
As we approach the mid-point of the year, the NCB has lots to share. We celebrate multiple authors being shortlisted for prizes and are please to share a PhD student being featured on a popular SBS…
Grandparenting in Australia: A Multidisciplinary Symposium
Call For PapersProposals Due: 31 July 2026Symposium Date: Thursday 26 November 2026Location: The Australian National UniversityMajor social, cultural and economic shifts have transformed…
Russian activities and Australian interests in the Indo-Pacific
Russian activities and Australian interests in the Indo-PacificReportIt has been common to characterise Russian foreign and security policy as traditionallyEurocentric, with much of Moscow’s focus on…
Now available: Aboriginal History Journal - Volume 49
The new volume, edited by Crystal McKinnon (University of Melbourne) and Ben Silverstein (ANU School of History), explores Aboriginal histories of survival, activism, cultural practice and resistance…
Dr Kasia Williams recognised by the Polish government
On 6 May, commemoration of the 235th anniversary of Poland’s Constitution of 3rd May 1791, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Australia presented a state decoration to Dr Katarzyna (Kasia)…