A new book provides the first detailed history of honours in Australia. It turns out Australians have long been debating how the system should work.
- Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is Australia’s largest and longest-running social sciences and humanities project. Set up in 1957, it has been publishing short accounts of significant and…
Virginia Woolf – so Hermione Lee writes in Virginia Woolf, her 1997 biography of the celebrated writer – thought it immensely difficult to ever know another person. Today the winner of the 2014 National…
