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ANU Lives Series in Biography
The ANU Lives Series in Biography is an initiative of the National Centre for Biography in the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. The National Centre was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for the study of life writing in Australia, supporting innovative research and writing to the highest standards in the field, nationally and internationally. Books that appear in the ANU Lives series are lively, engaging and provocative, intended to appeal to the current popular and scholarly interest in biography, memoir and autobiography. They recount interesting and telling life stories and engage critically with issues and problems in historiography and life writing.
Please note: The following list of titles is sorted by publication date, with the most recent first.
Displaying results 1 to 16 of 16.

Dictionary of World Biography »
Ninth edition
Unavailable for purchase

Persons of Interest »
An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton
Unavailable for purchase

A Bridge Between »
Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia
Unavailable for purchase

People and Place »
The West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in History and Literature
Unavailable for purchase

‘True Biographies of Nations?’ »
The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Unavailable for purchase

Clio’s Lives »
Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians
Unavailable for purchase

The Histories of Raphael Samuel »
A portrait of a people's historian
Unavailable for purchase

Family Experiments »
Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880–1920
Unavailable for purchase

Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm »
An Australian Tragedy
Unavailable for purchase

The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins »
Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era
Unavailable for purchase

Ngapartji Ngapartji »
In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia
Unavailable for purchase

Henry Prinsep's Empire »
Framing a distant colony
Unavailable for purchase

The ADB's Story »
Unavailable for purchase

Scholars at War »
Australasian Social Scientists, 1939–1945
Unavailable for purchase

Māori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye »
Representing Difference, 1950–2000
Unavailable for purchase

Transnational Ties »
Australian Lives in the World
Unavailable for purchase