With this final newsletter for 2024 we bid farewell to yet another year of environmental history news and events!
Throughout 2024, the Network and its members have continued their exciting work, showcasing and encouraging the study and research of, as well as public engagement in, environmental history across Australia, Aotearoa and further afield. Below are just some of the highlights from 2024 (we encourage you to scroll back through our ‘News’ tab for a snapshot of everything members were involved in in 2024).
This year we were delighted to award our Public Environmental History Prize to Jared Davidson for his book Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. We announced this exciting news at a Network event at this year’s Australian Historical Association Conference, hosted in Adelaide by our very own Alessandro Antonello. Jared’s book, along with many other fabulous publications from our members, can be found in our publication round-up archive. Our 2024 Publication Round-Up, meticulously compiled by steering committee members Daniel Rothenburg and Amanda Wells, is live and we encourage you to take a look.
Our members hosted and delivered cutting-edge research through annual lectures, workshops, and new publications, continued to engage students and the public in exciting environmental history work, and have attended and contributed to seminars, talks, and other events with enthusiasm! The Network was also well represented in awards and accolades this year, with Heather Goodall receiving a King’s Birthday Honour and Margaret Cook receiving a Pro Vice Chancellor (Science) Excellence in Research Impact Award, just to name a few.
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The newsletter will return in February 2025. As always, all members are welcome to submit news items to Jess Urwin for inclusion. Just be sure to send some text and a copyright-free image to her new University of Tasmania email address and she will post it in an upcoming newsletter.
Wishing everyone a restful summer with loved ones.
