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Master of Biographical Research & Writing

The NCB's Master of Biographical Research & Writing equips students with a thorough theoretical and critical grounding in biography, and with the skills and opportunity to undertake their own biographical projects

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Obituaries Australia

Obituaries Australia is published by the National Centre of Biography and consists of digitised copies of obituaries published in Australian newspapers, journals and magazines

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Biography Footnotes

The NCB's newsletter is published three times a year and contains information about our activities as well as news about biography in Australia

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Digitisation Facility

The NCB's Digitisation Facility specialises in scanning oversize, fragile and bound material. It is available to all researchers on a cost-recovery basis

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

Published by the NCB, the ADB contains concise, scholarly biographies of over 11,500 significant and representative Australians

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Biography Reading Group

The NCB's Biography Reading Group meets monthly to discuss issues about the writing of biography with some of Australia's leading biographers

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News & events

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Biography Footnotes, no 11, December 2012

The latest edition of the NCB's newsletter, Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. In it you will find news of the launch of...

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Dec

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ADB Volume 18 Launched

Volume 18 of the ADB, which includes entries for people who died in 1981-90, with surnames beginning L-Z, was launched by Queensland Governor,...

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Dec

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Biography Footnotes, no 10, 2011

The latest edition of the NCB's newsletter, Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. In it you will find our farewell to two of our staff...

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Research profile

Niki Francis

Niki Francis is one of six PhD students at the National Centre of Biography. She began her PhD about artist Rosalie Gascoigne at the beginning of this year but has felt a connection with her for much longer, having first seen her work at an exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2004. ‘The immediacy and beauty of her work, the concreteness, the allusiveness took my imagination by surprise’, says Niki. Her feeling of connectedness with Rosalie was strengthened when she learnt...

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