Dr Anna Clark is Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney and holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Anna writes on the teaching of history and on historiography. Her most recent book, Private Lives, Public History used interviews with 100 Australians from around the country to consider their thoughts on history alongside public and political discussions about the past. Other books include Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History (2006), History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008), The History Wars (2003) with Stuart Macintyre (awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Best Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate), as well as two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored!  She is currently working on a history of Australian historiography,  ‘Re-imagining the National Story‘,  funded by the Australian Research Council. She has also recently finished a history of fishing in Australia, to be published in 2017.

Appearing at:

Time travelling through history (with with Tom Griffiths, David Hunt and Rachel Landers)
Saturday 11.30-12.30, St Albans Church
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