Browsing Scholarships and Prizes Office by subject "Venour V Nathan Prize"
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The King’s Speech: Unveiling the Colonial Gaze in Kenya (1895-1918)
Published 2024-07-09In his recent speech to the people of Kenya, King Charles III took many by surprise when he espoused a semblance of cognizance and compassion towards the sufferings endured during the sombre epochs of imperial rule. During ...Open AccessText -
Leaving for Port Jackson; the First Fleet's abandonment of Botany Bay
Published 2024-07-08On the morning of 28 April 1770, James Cook and his crew sailed into Botany Bay in the bark Endeavour, becoming the first Europeans to set foot on the east coast of Australia (Cook, 1955, 304-312). The event itself had ...Open AccessText -
The Mythology of Law: Colonial and Anti-Colonial World-Making
Published 2021-05-13Genealogies destabilise representations, empowering us to interrogate the ideologies and relationships of power they sustain. As Amia Srinivasan argues, historians are primarily concerned with the co-origination of ...Open AccessText -
The path to independence: Australia’s constitution and her British ties
Published 2022-06-16The Australian Constitution created the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. It was written ‘at a time of ambivalence about Australia’s place in the world, whether it was an independent country or a child of England. ...Open AccessText -
A PERFECT STORM: The flight of George Edwards Peacock — Convict, Weatherman & Artist
Published 2019-01-01Open AccessText -
Pioneering Wedgwood: Photographs from the Anthropologist’s Manam Fieldwork (1933-1934)
Published 2018-01-01Open AccessText -
A TANGLED CRIMSON THREAD: THE COMPLEXITIES OF AUSTRALIA’S CITIZENSHIP HISTORY
Published 2018-01-01Open AccessText -
The Threat Within: American Servicemen in Australia during the Second World War
Published 2019-01-01Open AccessText