Tasmania has a curious relationship with its cultural heritage. Its convict past has transformed from a shameful burden to a commercial boon.
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Public History in the Land of Oz
While public history in Australia has generally become accepted as a sub-field, history is effectively no longer a core university discipline.
Public History in Australia
Monthly Editorial September 2021 Abstract: Public history, in diverse forms is booming across Australia but there is room for public historians in and outside academia, to communicate more often and… Read More ›
#HistoriansCollaborate – Family History Today
Community and Family history inhabit benefits for public historians, especially in migrant societies: Aboriginal family history uses… #historianscollaborate
The Australian Experience: Peak Commemoration?
Australia has strongly attached its identity to its ANZAC participation in World War I. Have the citizens, after a long string of centenary years, finally reached Peak Commemoration?
Are Monuments History?
Historic monuments are making the news. The removal of Confederacy leaders’ statues has provoked reaction in the USA. In Australia, at the same time, news that vandals had defaced the Captain Cook statue in Sydney, garnered attention.
Historical Consciousness, Fake News, and the Other
Seldom does a day go past since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States without reports of “alternative facts” and “fake news”. This presents both a problem and an opportunity for history educators.
Curriculum Debates as Public History: Australia
Curriculum debates: Increasingly, school history has become the focus of public interest, although the fault lines of related debates seem to fall along predictably and often polarised political orientations.