Annual lectures

Each year the ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre present a lecture by a prominent researcher.

Next lecture

The next Annual Lecture will be scheduled in 2024.

Past lectures

03
Nov
2004

2004 Professor Stuart Macintyre: The History Wars continued

About the lecture A war is raging in historical circles.  Divisions about how to interpret Australian history and the politicisation of the topic - see in the vilification of Manning Clark as a…

12
Mar
2003

2003 Professor Geoffrey Blainey: When History was rising fast: Australian history and the economic historians 1930-1960

About the lecture Professor Blainey will look at some of the leading Australian historians of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, including Keith Hancock EOG Shann, Brian Fitzpatrick, RM Crawford and the young…

04
Apr
2002

2002 Dr Rae Frances: Confessions of a promiscuous researcher

About the lecture Archives supply historians with raw material for their research.  Sensational discoveries, hidden truths and forgotten heroes abound on the archival shelves waiting to be…

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