The National Centre of Biography was established in June 2008 in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University to act as a centre of activity for all those writing and reading biography in Australia and beyond.
Our aim is to develop a community of scholars, writers, students, and readers of biography. As well as producing the Australian Dictionary of Biography, we will be organising conferences and seminars, publishing new work, enrolling PhD students and hosting biography fellows.
We invite you to be part of our biographical endeavour.
News & events
Biography Workshop
Gideon Haigh will discuss his most recent book Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket (Hamish Hamilton 2016). In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater – at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the...
94 new ADB entries added to website
94 new entries for people who died in 1993 were added to Australian Dictionary of Biography website today. Troy Lovegrove (1986-1993) and Eve van...
Biography Workshop
Date: Thursday 30 March 2017
Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building (Bldg. 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU)
Time: 12 midday until about 1.30 p.m.
Inquiries:...
Biography Footnotes
Read the latest issue of the National Centre of Biography's newsletter, Biography Footnotes.
In it you will find an obituary for the ADB’s great friend Jill Roe, as well a review of her recent book, Our Fathers...
Special NCB Event
Professor Elleke Boehmer will join us on 21 February to talk about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life–a national leader whose life also had global dimensions. How did this passionately nationalist leader, who identified himself...
