The second volume in the Melbourne Historical Journal Research Series A World Enchanted: Magic and the Margins edited by Julie Davies and Michael Pickering Essays in Honour of Charles Zika This collection of essays by students, past and present, from the University of Melbourne celebrates the life and scholarly work of Professor Charles Zika. It commemorates… Read more »
The first volume in the Melbourne Historical Journal Research Series… Written Into History: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Melbourne Historical Journal 1961-2011 “A bold ambition, wonderfully achieved… Written into History is both a compendium of historical writings and historical sources, and a very fine history in its own right” Alistair Thomson (author of Moving Stories, and Anzac Memories) Immerse… Read more »
The 2012 volume of the Melbourne Historical Journal includes: Moya McFadzean: Exhibiting Controversy at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum Grant Phillipson: 2001, A Waitangi Tribunal Odyssey: the Tribunal’s response to the ‘presentism’ critique Azhari Aiyub: History in the Aftermath of Dictatorship: an interview with Azhari Aiyub Shane Carmody: On finding Oneself in a Library, Greg Dening Lecture, 24… Read more »
The 2011 volume of the Melbourne Historical Journal includes: The Greg Dening 2012 Prize winner Marianne Schultz“The Best Entertainment of its Kind Ever Witnessed in New Zealand”: The Rev. Frederick Augustus Bennett, the Rotorua Maori Entertainers, and the story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai Feature Articles Andrew TurnerReconstructing the Roman Past from Fragmented Memories: The Commentum… Read more »