Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/IBP... @historycouncilsa.bsky.social @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social @anuausi.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @amigrationhn.bsky.social

Note: This post contains photos of people who have died. The ADB’s First Nations Working Party is adding more entries on Indigenous subjects all the time. To read more, visit adb.anu.edu.au 📷 NAA + families + Elders

🎵 Mama Pasifika we got to stand strong 🎵 Read about Lea Firth & the Black Sistaz in the ninth volume of AJBH. Access free via @anupress.bsky.social press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

ADB team members @michellestaff.bsky.social & @as-ruby.bsky.social have reviewed the National Library of Australia's Fit to Print exhibition for @historyaustralia.bsky.social 📸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 📷 Women playing rugby, 1930, NLA

The Oceania takeover of the ADB social media channels continues 🌊 Today we’re looking at @taleilu.bsky.social's article on Amelia Rokotuivuna and her intellectual legacy. Read it free online with @anupress.bsky.social 👇 #oceanialives

Pauline Reynolds’ article in the AJBH no. 9 starts with a small rectangular barkcloth (tapa) and expands into a poetic reflection on family history and memory Read it online open access thanks to @anupress.bsky.social press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

Norman Hetherington is best known as a puppeteer and children’s entertainer, but he started his career first as a commercial artist, then became a cartoonist for The Bulletin ✏️ Learn all about him in his new ADB entry: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/he... 📷 AWM + Trove

From AJBH no. 9, Oceania Lives 🌊 An exploration of the life of Futukava, by Ruth (Lute) Faleolo & Emma ‘Ilaiū Vehikite Read it online via @anupress.bsky.social now press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

Another day, another fantastic article from the Oceania Lives issue of the AJBH! Lisa Hilli’s article sheds light on a remarkable group of Papua New Guinean women, the FMI Sisters of Vunapope. Read it via @anupress.bsky.social online: press.anu.edu.au/publications... #oceanialives

We've teamed up with the @nationalmuseumaus.bsky.social to produce a special entry on the creator of Mr Squiggle, Norman Hetherington 🎨 Have a read, then check out the exhibition Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington adb.anu.edu.au/biography/he... 📷 NMA

Next up in the Oceania Lives series we're taking a look at the story of Aboriginal and South Sea Islander leader, artist and writer, Mabel Edmund Read the full article in the AJBH: press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

Up first from the ‘Oceania Lives’ issue of the AJBH is an article on Aboriginal and South Sea Islander activist, photographer and radio broadcaster, Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

#onthisday the ABC was established 📻📺

Every Monday for the next few weeks the ADB’s Oceania Working Party will be taking over this account to share articles from their recent special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography & History, ‘Oceania Lives’ 💫 @anupress.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social

Learn about the fateful Second Fleet voyage in the ADB and in our journal, the Australian Journal of Biography and History @anupress.bsky.social ⚓️ For a taster, read the blog by Nichola Garvey for VIDA @auswhn.bsky.social www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-nep...

ICYMI: Shauna Bostock selected for ABC TOP 5 residency 👇 history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/...

One for our overseas readers ✈️ Last year we published an entry on acclaimed artist and designer Leigh Bowery ✒️ This year Tate Modern is hosting an exhibition to mark Bowery’s ‘boundary-pushing career’ 🎨 adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bo... www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... 📷 Robyn Beeche Foundation

Great news to start the week at the ADB 🗞️ Indigenous research editor Dr Shauna Bostock has been awarded one of the coveted ABC TOP 5 Humanities residencies. Congratulations, Shauna! 🎉🎉 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#bornonthisday in 1885: Dorothea Pavy (née Proud), teacher, sociologist & lawyer 👩‍🎓 adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pa... 📷 State Library of South Australia

#OnThisDay in 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars It might surprise you to know that there are plenty of people in the ADB whose lives were shaped by this conflict. adb.anu.edu.au 📷 @utas.edu.au @statelibraryqld.bsky.social @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social

In the latest #VIDAblog in the Australian Journal of Biography and History series, Richard Fotheringham’s research on entertainer Jenny Howard leads him to the idea of ‘echoic biography’. @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social Find out more ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/towards...

Next month the National Centre of Biography is teaming up with Harry Hartog for an in-conversation event all about Dr Kerrie Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover. Register to attend now 👇 www.harryhartog.com.au/blogs/author... @kerriecanwrite.bsky.social @michellestaff.bsky.social

This Pride Month we are continuing to spotlight queer subjects in the ADB 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Today it’s writer and playwright, Sumner Locke Elliott. Though he spent the majority of his life in the United States, many of his works reflected his Australian roots. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/el...

Meet trans personality and fashionista, Lady Paula Howard. This entry was an opportunity to reflect on our practices when writing the lives of trans or other gender-diverse people, and we were ably guided by author @noahriseman.bsky.social adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ho... 📷 Seahorse Victoria

Finding and telling the stories of LGBTQI+ people from the past can be challenging, especially when the archives are full of silences. But, as Sylvia Martin shows, it can be done 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pa... 📷 Aileen Palmer ANU Archives

@fotc.au are showcasing the stories of people buried at Toowong Cemetery over the coming weeks. Many are in the ADB - follow below for more 🤓

June newsletter just dropped 👇 history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/...

🚨New issue alert🚨 The 9th installment of the Australian Journal of Biography and History is out TODAY! This special issue on Oceania Lives is an initiative of the ADB’s Oceania Working Party. @anupress.bsky.social

The end of National Reconciliation Week marks the date of the Mabo decision. Historian Henry Reynolds describes Mabo v. Qld as sparking 'a transformation of truly global significance.' adb.anu.edu.au/the-quest-fo... 📷 Courtesy of Trevor Graham, Yarra Bank Films + Powerhouse Museum

New special issue of 'Australian Journal of Biography and History' publishing tomorrow! ‘Oceania Lives’ is the result of years of collaborative research by the Pacific-led Oceania Working Party (OWP) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Register your interest: doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.09.2025

Haven't had a chance to check out the full volume yet? 📚 Get a taster of Reframing Indigenous Biography in this adapted excerpt published by the Australian Academy of the Humanities 👇

National Reconciliation Week starts today. 27 May marks the date of the 1967 referendum, which saw 90.77% of voters say YES to improving Aboriginal rights. Read more about this history-making moment in the ADB’s Quest for Indigenous Recognition project. adb.anu.edu.au/the-quest-fo... 📷 NAA

Today marks 8 years since the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart was delivered as ‘a gift to the Australian people’. This moment features in the ADB’s Quest for Reconciliation Project in a piece by @profmdavis.bsky.social adb.anu.edu.au/the-quest-fo... 📷 @ulurustatement.bsky.social

#OTD in 1912 Walter Burley Griffin's design for Canberra was selected as the winner of an international competition. His wife Marion produced the beautiful illustrations and likely helped develop the concept too. Read all about her in a brand new ADB entry👇 adb.anu.edu.au/.../griffin-...

Love seeing our ADB experts quoted in the national media 🗞️👌 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The latest addition to our Biography Series with @anupress.bsky.social 🎉🎉 Follow the link below to download or buy your copy now 👇

Did you know the ADB now adds sound clips to some of our entries? 🎼 For a stellar example, check out the entry for opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, who was #BornOnThisDay in 1861 adb.anu.edu.au/biography/me... 📷 SLV

The latest blog post in our 'Biography and Gender' series is now live! 👇

Tomorrow is #IDAHOBIT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ In the ADB we have stories of people whose lives were impacted by stigma and shame, as well as of people who worked to combat discrimination to allow others to live proudly and openly. Read about them all in the ADB 📘 adb.anu.edu.au 📷 NLA, NAA + SLWA

It's time for another ADB photo drive! 🖼️ Know of any (copyright-free) images we can add to our entries? Comment below with a copy/link, title, date + source👇 📷 Australian War Memorial

Keep your eyes peeled for an ADB collaboration in this space 👀 www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/...

Can't get enough post-election analysis? Read our very own Dr Stephen Wilks' 'Memo to the Coalition' via @insidestory.bsky.social 👇 insidestory.org.au/memo-to-the-...

🚨 Hot off the press 🚨 The May edition of NCB News is here! history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/...

Lovely to see this out - my long chat about a book now 18 months old - gave me a chance to be more reflective and summative. Notes on #revisionisthistory #reversehistory #Indigenoushistory #18thcentury www.biographersinconversation.com/s02e11-kate-...

When her husband was posted overseas during WWII, Biddy Moriarty followed with the Australian Comforts Fund. After he died 1941, she joined the Australian Red Cross Society’s field force, and spent the remainder of the war working with them. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mo... #worldredcrossday

A few weeks ago we hosted a one-day workshop supported by the ANU Gender Institute. The topic: women's firsts and the privilege of trailblazing. Read a recap of the event here - and keep watching this space for more 📚 genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/privile...

Happy #internationaldayofthemidwife 🧑‍🍼

Don’t forget to cast your vote this weekend! 📷 @troveaustralia @nationallibraryaus @statelibrarynsw #democracysausage #democracy #vote #australianelection2025 #australiavotes #auspol

There are 20 prime ministers in the ADB so far. How many do you know? 📷 Trove

📚 CANBERRA BOOK LAUNCH 📚 Come along to the launch of 'Politics, Pride and Perversion: The Rise and Fall of Frank Arkell', the first major biography of this controversial figure in Wollongong history. 🗓️ 2 May ⏰ 6 pm 📍Sir Roland Wilson Building, SRWB 202 Theatrette, ANU www.trybooking.com/CZRHM