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For those so minded, a reminder… Nominations for the History Council of NSW awards and prizes close Friday 31 March 2017. Full details. Nominations for the 2017 Maritime History Prizes offered by the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian National Maritime Museum close on Friday 28 April 2017. Full … Continue reading →

This may be of interest to some of our post-grad members: Applicants with a background in historical research are sought to work on a legal-historical project based at Melbourne Law School. Professor Ian Ramsay and Associate Professor Paul Ali are … Continue reading →

We note the following opportunity for early career scholars. The Centre for Law and History at Stanford is calling for applications for a 2 year Fellowship. Further details are available via Stanford.

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship attached to the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, ‘Breaking down tradition: women in male-dominated work, 1840-2000’ (DP 160102764). Through examining the origins and circulation of ideas about women’s and men’s paid work in … Continue reading →

We have the following call for papers. Note the key dates: Conference July 16-18 University of Calgary. CFP close February 1. ‘From July 16 to 18, 2017, the Faculties of Law and Arts at the University of Calgary will jointly … Continue reading →

Volume 3 of the Society’s journal, law&history, will soon be available. Look for it in the next couple of weeks online and hardcopies will be posted to subscribers in early December. A reminder that it is available via Heinonline and Informit, … Continue reading →

The Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History is calling for applications from PhD candidates to attend their annual summer school. The theme is conflict regulation. They cover fees, accommodation and some scholarships are available for travel. More information is … Continue reading →

Round two of the National Archives of Australia/AHA postgrad scholarships is closing 31 October. This award helps postgraduate scholars with the cost of digitisation of files held by the National Archives. More information is available via the National Archives.

Following on (finally!) from the Legal Histories of the British Empire conference in Singapore  in 2012, we are pleased to announce Legal History and Empires: Perspectives from the Colonised, jointly sponsored by  the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Humanities and … Continue reading →

The society’s journal, law&history, is now available via HeinOnline and Informit. In HeinOnLine it can be found in the core Law Journals library. Australian members should note that despite its location in law the journal is also coded to history for … Continue reading →