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Australian Journal of Biography and History
no.
8
2024
27802981
2024
periodical issue
'The Australian Journal of Biography and History (AJBH) was established in 2018
with the principal aim of promoting the study of historical biography. In her
2023 book Biography: An Historiography, Melanie Nolan, currently director of
the National Centre of Biography, situates biography as integral to the practice
of history, a discipline that stresses the role of the individual rather than focusing
solely on the structures constraining human agency.1 Consistent with this objective,
the AJBH publishes lively, appealing and provocative articles that ‘engage critically
with issues and problems in historiography and life writing’ as well as illuminating
themes in Australian history.2 Since 2018, the journal has fulfilled its charter with
three general numbers emanating from a call for papers and four special themed
issues: Number 2, 2019, Canberra Lives (edited by Malcolm Allbrook); Number 5,
2021, Political Biography (edited by Stephen Wilks and Joshua Black); Number 6,
2022, Writing Slavery into Biography (edited by Georgina Arnott, Zoë Laidlaw and
Jane Lydon), and Number 7, 2023, Convict Lives (edited by Matthew Cunneen and
Malcolm Allbrook).' (Malcolm Allbrook: Introduction) 2024
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