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- Introduction (PDF, 0.1MB) – Doug Munro and John G. Reid doi
Autobiographies of Historians
- Writing History/Writing about Yourself: What’s the Difference? (PDF, 0.2MB) – Sheila Fitzpatrick doi
- Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: Three Autobiographies of Childhood and Coming of Age (PDF, 0.2MB) – Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray doi
- The Female Gaze: Australian Women Historians’ Autobiographies (PDF, 0.1MB) – Ann Moyal doi
Nation-Defining Authors
- ‘A gigantic confession of life’: Autobiography, ‘National Awakening’ and the Invention of Manning Clark (PDF, 0.2MB) – Mark McKenna doi
- Ceci n’est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance (PDF, 0.4MB) – Donald Wright doi
Discipline-Defining Authors
- Intersecting and Contrasting Lives: G.M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey (PDF, 0.2MB) – Alastair MacLachlan doi
- An Ingrained Activist: The Early Years of Raphael Samuel (PDF, 0.2MB) – Sophie Scott-Brown doi
- Pursuing the Antipodean: Bernard Smith, Identity and History (PDF, 0.5MB) – Sheridan Palmer doi
Collective Biography
- Australian Historians Networking, 1914–1973 (PDF, 0.2MB) – Geoffrey Bolton doi
- Country and Kin Calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the Promotion of Life Writing in Australia (PDF, 0.6MB) – Melanie Nolan doi
- Imperial Women: Collective Biography, Gender and Yale-trained Historians (PDF, 0.8MB) – John G. Reid doi
- Concluding Reflections (PDF, 0.1MB) – Barbara Caine doi
