Honest History promotes balanced consideration of Australian history by offering contesting, evidence-based interpretations to students, teachers, universities, journalists and the public. We challenge the misuse of history to serve political or other agendas.
Honest History symposium, ANU, Canberra, 8 November, ‘Presenting, choosing, measuring, changing history’. With Frank Bongiorno, Michael Brissenden, Alison Broinowski, Pamela Burton, Michael Cooney, Shaun Crowe, Paul Daley, Emily Gallagher, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, Carolyn Holbrook, Benjamin T. Jones, Ann McGrath, Michael Piggott, David Stephens, Sue Wareham, Clare Wright, in discussion. Booking and program.
Romain Fathi gives a non-Australian-centric overview of World War I
Margaret Macmillan Reith Lectures 2018, ‘The Mark of Cain’: on war and humanity
A century on, Sir John Monash deserves evidence-based analysis, not boosterism: Chris Roberts and Peter Stanley write
Review by Vance Gainsborough of Steve Sailah’s novel, Killing Kitchener: ‘a nicely paced yarn’
Centenary Watch: War Memorial consultations on its proposed extensions: ‘Look on my Works’. Old wine in new bottles?
Looking back …
Centenary Watch
Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been