Historian Anna Clark examines the role history plays in our lives, from the personal and our collective stories, and why it matters to move beyond the rhetoric.
Sorry, this event is now fully booked. You can also catch Anna on the Collective Memory panel with Richard Fidler.
Anna Clark holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and is Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has written extensively on history education, historiography and historical consciousness, including: Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History (2006), History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008), Private Lives, Public History (2016), The History Wars (2003) with Stuart Macintyre, as well as two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored! Reflecting her love of fish and fishing, she has also recently finished a history of fishing in Australia, which will be published later this year.
Mary-Rose MacColl is the author of five novels, a non-fiction book, short stories, feature journalism and essays.
