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The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The AHA was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians – academic, professional and other – working in all fields of history. We have over 900 members represented by an Executive Committee that draws its members from all over the country. The Association holds an annual conference and administers a portfolio Read more ...
Monday 29 June – Friday 3 July 2020 at Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus Today, the need to interrogate the past is more pressing than ever. Historians are now both scholars and actors in the face of worldwide political efforts to realign the past to fit present imperatives.This conference calls us to consider the place Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
Monday 29 June – Friday 3 July 2020 at Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus Today, the need to interrogate the past is more pressing than ever. Historians are now both scholars and actors in the face of worldwide political efforts to realign the past to fit present imperatives.This conference calls us to consider the place Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
AHA members have exclusive access to notices about funding opportunities, positions vacant and calls for papers, as well as extra events and news items. Members also receive a weekly newsletter and subscription to the AHA journal History Australia which publishes refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or Read more ...
2020 is a big year for AHA prizes, with the full suite of biennial prizes and annual prizes on offer. All are now open. For full terms and conditions for each prize, consult the AHA website. The Kay Daniels Award is a biennial prize recognising outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history Read more …
The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. It is available to all early career historians (within five years of the award of their PhD degree), whether academic, professional, or public historians working in museums, war memorials and other institutions. Funding of up to Read more …
The AHA is pleased to announce the introduction of a new discounted category of membership: INTERNATIONAL. This new category is meant to recognise that there are many historians based outside Australia who have an interest in the association’s work and networks. The rate of international membership is $100 (the fee of $12.50 for international postage Read more …
The AHA would like to thank those who applied for the 2019 Jill Roe Award. This annual award was announced at the AHA Conference dinner on 11 July 2019. There were a very small number of entries for the Jill Roe prize this year. With regret, the Judges did not feel any entry was of Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the 2019 Allan Martin Award, a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. The Award commemorates the contribution to Australian History of A. W. Martin (1926-2002), in particular his interest in and encouragement of students and younger colleagues over Read more …
The current editors are pleased to announce the inaugural Marian Quartly Prize (previous the Taylor and Francis prize) for the best article published in History Australia in a calendar year. The editors approached Taylor and Francis, who fund the prize, with the proposed change of name to honour the first editor of History Australia and Read more …
The editors of History Australia are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Ann Curthoys prize for an essay by an ECR in one of the fields in which Ann worked. The prize was proposed and funded by the current editors in part because Ann completed her PhD at Macquarie University where they all Read more …
Because increasingly universities, job applications and the Australian Research Council (ARC) have been requiring academics to justify the quality of their work, the AHA Executive has made the decision to develop a rankings system to assist in the process. This is a pragmatic response to developments within the tertiary sector. Increasingly, universities have been designing Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the inaugural AHA/Honest History Teacher Scholarship. The scheme supports a secondary school History teacher to attend the annual Australian Historical Association Conference to promote engagement between History teachers and the broader historical community. Funding for this scheme is made possible by a generous donation from Honest History Read more …
Organisation for what is shaping up to be a great conference is now in the final stages. The organising committee are seeking more chairs for sessions, panels and roundtables. Please have a look at the updated draft conference program, and get in touch with the organisers if you are interested. Further information