Anna Clark
Anna Clark is an ARC Future Fellow in public history at the University of Technology, Sydney. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote the History Wars in 2003, which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Best Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate.
Her PhD thesis, Teaching the Nation, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2006 and examines debates about teaching Australian history in schools. Follow up research, History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (New South, 2008), used interviews with 250 history teachers, students and curriculum officials from around Australia to explore Australian history teaching in school. She has also written two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored!
Anna’s current project, Whose Australia? Popular Understandings of the Nation, uses interviews with 100 Australians from around the country to consider and include their thoughts on history and national identity in public discussion about the past. Reflecting her love of fish and fishing, she has also recently been commissioned to write a history of fishing in Australia, which will be published in 2016.
Her teaching interests range across Australian history and historiography, including contests over the past, oral history, history education, memory studies, and public history.
Phone: +61 2 9514 2553
Address: University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Her PhD thesis, Teaching the Nation, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2006 and examines debates about teaching Australian history in schools. Follow up research, History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (New South, 2008), used interviews with 250 history teachers, students and curriculum officials from around Australia to explore Australian history teaching in school. She has also written two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored!
Anna’s current project, Whose Australia? Popular Understandings of the Nation, uses interviews with 100 Australians from around the country to consider and include their thoughts on history and national identity in public discussion about the past. Reflecting her love of fish and fishing, she has also recently been commissioned to write a history of fishing in Australia, which will be published in 2016.
Her teaching interests range across Australian history and historiography, including contests over the past, oral history, history education, memory studies, and public history.
Phone: +61 2 9514 2553
Address: University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
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the limited public sphere in which they play out? What do Australians
think of their history in light of these politicised historical debates? By
way of answer, this article examines the enduring public contest over the
past and then investigates more elusive, but no less significant, everyday
conversations about Australian history around the country. By proposing
a method of ‘oral historiography’ to gauge contemporary historical
understandings in Australia, it brings a critical new perspective to these
ongoing debates. It offers ordinary people a chance to contribute to
national discussions about Australian history and it challenges some of
the more simplistic and troubling assumptions of the history wars.
the limited public sphere in which they play out? What do Australians
think of their history in light of these politicised historical debates? By
way of answer, this article examines the enduring public contest over the
past and then investigates more elusive, but no less significant, everyday
conversations about Australian history around the country. By proposing
a method of ‘oral historiography’ to gauge contemporary historical
understandings in Australia, it brings a critical new perspective to these
ongoing debates. It offers ordinary people a chance to contribute to
national discussions about Australian history and it challenges some of
the more simplistic and troubling assumptions of the history wars.