Australian History at the University of Sydney

'Bush Idyll', Frederick McCubbin, 1893, Private Collection

The University of Sydney’s History Department boasts one of the strongest areas of Australian history expertise in the country. We employ five full-time members of staff who are ‘officially’ within the Australian area. Their publications range through topics as diverse as popular culture, rural history, scandal, the history of manners, travel and tourism, and crime and incarceration. Several of our other staff also connect Australian history to their wider global and comparative research interests.

We teach Australian history courses at every level, from first year to postgraduate. Australian history is all around us, and we place an especial emphasis on developing original research skills. Students are able to develop their own research topics and engage in the practice of history from their second year. The largest proportion of our honours year theses and of our postgraduate students are in Australian history. More than twenty PhD theses were completed here in the last five years.

This website is designed to provide information about Australian history at the University of Sydney, as well as to provide a gateway to Australian history resources available on the world wide web.

It will give you information about:

• Staff
  Who teaches Australian history at the University of Sydney and what are their research interests.

• Courses
  What courses are on offer each year, how have students responded to them in the past, and how are we working to improve them.

• Organisations
  Links to libraries, archives, journals and professional associations.

• Online Primary Sources
  Links to primary source collections that are available on the web.

Department of History • Faculty of Arts • The University of Sydney