ANU Lives Series in Biography

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong.

This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience.

Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe.

Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so.

In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934–1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first Britis

Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century.

In the history and folklore of Australia’s Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the ‘Seven Dwarfs’ has been remarkably persistent.

In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s concept of ego-histoire

Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia’s first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal people for most of the

‘In the whole history of government in Australia, this was the most devastating tragedy.’

‘The Australian Dictionary of Biography captures the life and times and culture of this country in an absolutely distinctive and irreplaceable way. It is the indispensable record of who we are, and of the characters who have made us what we are.

Scholars at War is the first scholarly publication to examine the effect World War II had on the careers of Australasian social scientists.

From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Māori women became nationally or internationally renowned.

Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination.