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📖 Est. 1959 🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land https://adb.anu.edu.au https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · May 14

It's time for another ADB photo drive! 🖼️

Know of any (copyright-free) images we can add to our entries? Comment below with a copy/link, title, date + source👇

📷 Australian War Memorial

Man showing a camera to another man, woman and child

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Aug 13

So many great stories! Thank you 💙

Reposted by Australian Dictionary of Biography

ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/IBP...

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‘I buy this piece of ground here’

<p><em>‘I buy this piece of ground here’</em> is a group biography that examines the lives and work of a cohort of Italian migrant families from the Veneto region who arrived in Australia in the 1920s...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 24

Note: This post contains photos of people who have died.

The ADB’s First Nations Working Party is adding more entries on Indigenous subjects all the time.

To read more, visit adb.anu.edu.au

📷 NAA + families + Elders

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎵 Mama Pasifika we got to stand strong 🎵

Read about Lea Firth & the Black Sistaz in the ninth volume of AJBH.

Access free via @anupress.bsky.social

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 17

PS if you don't have institutional access, you can download one of fifty free e-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NDEH8...

Picturing modern Australia

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 17

ADB team members @michellestaff.bsky.social & @as-ruby.bsky.social have reviewed the National Library of Australia's Fit to Print exhibition for @historyaustralia.bsky.social 📸

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📷 Women playing rugby, 1930, NLA

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 17

PS if you don't have institutional access, you can download one of fifty free e-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NDEH8...

Picturing modern Australia

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 17

PS if you don't have an institutional login, use this link to access one of fifty free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NDEH8...

Picturing modern Australia

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Oceania takeover of the ADB social media channels continues 🌊

Today we’re looking at @taleilu.bsky.social's article on Amelia Rokotuivuna and her intellectual legacy.

Read it free online with @anupress.bsky.social 👇

#oceanialives

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 14

Pauline Reynolds’ article in the AJBH no. 9 starts with a small rectangular barkcloth (tapa) and expands into a poetic reflection on family history and memory

Read it online open access thanks to @anupress.bsky.social

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 11

Norman Hetherington is best known as a puppeteer and children’s entertainer, but he started his career first as a commercial artist, then became a cartoonist for The Bulletin ✏️

Learn all about him in his new ADB entry:

adb.anu.edu.au/biography/he...

📷 AWM + Trove

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 9

From AJBH no. 9, Oceania Lives 🌊

An exploration of the life of Futukava, by Ruth (Lute) Faleolo & Emma ‘Ilaiū Vehikite

Read it online via @anupress.bsky.social now

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 7

Another day, another fantastic article from the Oceania Lives issue of the AJBH!

Lisa Hilli’s article sheds light on a remarkable group of Papua New Guinean women, the FMI Sisters of Vunapope.

Read it via @anupress.bsky.social online: press.anu.edu.au/publications...

#oceanialives

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 4

We've teamed up with the @nationalmuseumaus.bsky.social to produce a special entry on the creator of Mr Squiggle, Norman Hetherington 🎨

Have a read, then check out the exhibition Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington

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📷 NMA

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 1

Next up in the Oceania Lives series we're taking a look at the story of Aboriginal and South Sea Islander leader, artist and writer, Mabel Edmund

Read the full article in the AJBH:

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 1

Up first from the ‘Oceania Lives’ issue of the AJBH is an article on Aboriginal and South Sea Islander activist, photographer and radio broadcaster, Lisa Bellear (1961-2006)

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jul 1

#onthisday the ABC was established 📻📺

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 30

Every Monday for the next few weeks the ADB’s Oceania Working Party will be taking over this account to share articles from their recent special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography & History, ‘Oceania Lives’ 💫

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 27

Learn about the fateful Second Fleet voyage in the ADB and in our journal, the Australian Journal of Biography and History @anupress.bsky.social ⚓️

For a taster, read the blog by Nichola Garvey for VIDA @auswhn.bsky.social

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-nep...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 26

ICYMI: Shauna Bostock selected for ABC TOP 5 residency 👇

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Dr Shauna Bostock selected for the ABC TOP 5 media residency | School of History

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 23

Great posts & fascinating stories!

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 23

One for our overseas readers ✈️

Last year we published an entry on acclaimed artist and designer Leigh Bowery ✒️

This year Tate Modern is hosting an exhibition to mark Bowery’s ‘boundary-pushing career’ 🎨

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📷 Robyn Beeche Foundation

Picture of a person in colourful costume against a space-themed backdrop

Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 22

Great news to start the week at the ADB 🗞️

Indigenous research editor Dr Shauna Bostock has been awarded one of the coveted ABC TOP 5 Humanities residencies. Congratulations, Shauna! 🎉🎉

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TOP 5 2025: WINNERS - ABC listen

The ABC is pleased to introduce the 2025 winners in Science, Humanities and Arts Top5 programs.The successful applicants will spend two weeks in residence at ABC Radio National.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social · Jun 19

#bornonthisday in 1885: Dorothea Pavy (née Proud), teacher, sociologist & lawyer 👩‍🎓

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📷 State Library of South Australia