Each year the ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre present a lecture by a prominent researcher.
Next lecture
2026 Annual Lecture with Emeritus Professor Grace Karskens
Remembering Ballandella: re-reading the archiveBallandella was four years old when Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell took her from her mother Turandurey at the end of his expedition to Australia Felix…Past lectures
2005 Humphrey McQueen: Tradesmen's entrance. The contribution of trade journals to understanding capitalism in Australia
About the lecture The lecture draws attention to a neglected body of Australian journalism, namely, trade periodicals. Between the 1880s and 1960s Australian employer organisations produced…
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…
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…
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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