And a big congratulations and good luck message for those in the Community & Regional History Prize category, especially Kate Fullagar and the NCB's newest staff member, Shauna Bostock 🎉🎉

Biography is very well represented in the Australian history category at the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards! 🎉 🎉 Special congratulations to Kate Fullagar and Alecia Simmonds, who are both members of the ADB's working parties. Good luck to all! 🍀

Spring has sprung! 🌼 Dutch-born horticulturalist Cees Tesselaar, aka the 'tulip king', would have been excited to see his flowers bloom around this time of year 🌷 adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tess… 📷 Mr Tesselaar's Tulip Farm, 1970 National Archives of Australia

In Asia-Pacific Lives we will be showcasing several subjects from the ADB with Asian and/or Pacific heritage. 🗓️ 9-23 September 📍RSSS Building, ANU campus A collaboration with ANU CHL for Immersia. history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/ev…

Tomorrow is National Threatened Species Day 🐾 On 7 September 1936 the last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) died. Naturalist David Fleay captured the animal on video in 1933. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/flea… 📷 Thylacine National Archives of Australia; David Fleay @awmemorial and National Archives of Australia

A huge congratulations to Dr Shauna Bostock! What an amazing achievement! 🎉🎉 ANUHistory ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ourANU

Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition: a collaboration with ANU CHL for Immersia 🗓️ 9-23 September 🕐 9am-5pm weekdays 📍RSSS building foyer, 146 Ellery Crescent ANU Media ourANU ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Produced in collaboration with ANU CHL, the Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition is free to visit on campus ourANU Japanese-born Yasukichi Murakami is one of the subjects we highlight. Swing by to learn about him! adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mura… 📷 Yasukichi Murakami, Library & Archives NT

Tongan minister, academic and historian Sione Lātūkefu is another ADB subject who features in the Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/latu… 📷 Pacific Manuscripts Bureau ourANU ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU CHL ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Sneak peak of the Asia-Pacific Lives exhibition thanks to ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences 👀 🗓️ 9-23 September 🕐 9am-5pm weekdays 📍 RSSS building foyer, 146 Ellery Crescent ANU Media ourANU ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU CHL instagram.com/reel/C_1m6mKBl…

Week 1 of #2024immersia - and what a week it was! #culture #multicultural #festival

'British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values' is a public lecture and workshop convened by Kate Fullagar (member of the ADB's Oceania Working Party). 🗓️ 17-18 October 2024 📍 Sir Roland Wilson Building ourANU Register now! 👇 tinyurl.com/fullagarworksh…

Asia-Pacific Lives is on display for the rest of this week 💫 In the exhibition you’ll see Sue Wah Chin, a Chinese-Australian businesswoman and matriarch. Check out her story in the RSSS Building foyer on campus ourANU - and in the ADB! 📷 Sue Wah Chin, 1952, Library & Archives NT

Hoi Meen Chin was born into a prominent Chinese family in Australian-occupied German New Guinea. He features in Asia-Pacific Lives, on display for a few more days in the RSSS Building foyer. Swing by and have a look! 📷 Hoi Meen Chin, self portrait, Rabaul, possibly 1960s

Feat. a Writing Lives masterclass with the wonderful Bernadette Brennan 🇵🇸STOP THE GENOCIDE, sponsored by the NCB 📒 tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events/MASTERC…

Final days to see Asia-Pacific Lives 💫 history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/ev… instagram.com/reel/DAFKn59tO… ANU CHL ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU CartoGIS Services ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

The shortlist is out for the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, feat. our very own Dr Shauna Bostock 👏🎉 Voting for the Nib People’s Choice Prize is live until 17 October. Our vote goes to Shauna for sure! tinyurl.com/nibpeopleschoi…

BOTD: Sir John Robert Kerr (1914–1991), lawyer, judge, and governor-general of Australia. Kerr is most well-known for dismissing the Whitlam government in 1975, but there’s much more to his story. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kerr… 📷 John Kerr, 1965 National Archives of Australia