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Raelene Frances

Raelene Frances is Dean of Arts and Professor of History at Monash University. She has published widely on the history of work, women’s history, Aboriginal/European contact history, religious and community history and has also co-edited several collections of essays on Australian and New Zealand history, including Labour and the Great War. Her prize-winning books include The Politics of Work, and Women and the Great War (co-authored with Bruce Scates). Her history of prostitution, Selling Sex, was short-listed for the Ernest Scott Prize. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Raelene Frances

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  • Beyond Gallipoli

    Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates

Events

Meet the author: Kevin Bell

The Australian National University 153-11 University Ave, Acton, ACT, Australia

The Hon. Kevin Bell, following introductory remarks by Dr. Liz Allen, will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Housing .The Great Australian Right, which reimagines ‘the great Australian dream’...

Inside the Dunera: Beyond Conventional Narratives

Jewish Museum of Australia 26 Alma Rd, St Kilda, VIC

Join us to celebrate the launch of Tonia Eckfeld’s No One Knows Their Destiny: The Eckfeld Records: Inside the Dunera Story, in collaboration with Monash University Publishing. In this panel discussion, Professor Eckfeld will discuss...

Free

Author Talk: No One Knows Their Destiny – Inside the Dunera Story

The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum 2 Murray Street, Sydney, NSW

A moving portrait of two Dunera Boys, from Kristallnacht in Vienna to VE Day in Melbourne, that complicates the traditional story of the Dunera. Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys...

Meet the author: Tonia Eckfeld at the Sydney Jewish Museum

Sydney Jewish Museum 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst, NSW

Join us for an afternoon with Tonia Eckfeld, the acclaimed art historian and author of No One Knows Their Destiny. In this compelling work, Eckfeld delves into the deeply personal...