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The Centre's projects

Staff at the National Museum of Australia's Centre for Historical Research are working on projects which bring new insights to Australian history.

Mont St Quentin field

> Personal stories of soldiers at Mont St Quentin

National Museum historian Dr Peter Stanley is working on a history of the lives and deaths of a group of Australians who fought in France in 1918.

Matthew Higgins reading a map


> Mountain Days, Mountain Ways book

National Museum Research Fellow Matthew Higgins draws on his research and passion for the Australian Capital Territory's high country in a new book on how the mountains have shaped people's lives.

Mike Smith. Photo: Stuart Grant

> Into the Simpson Desert expedition

Join veteran desert archaeologist Dr Mike Smith for regular audio reports from his search for signs of a lost world in the remote southern Simpson Desert.

> Counterpoint: Indigenous and Western knowledge of plants in Northern Australia

Environmental historian Dr Lynne McCarthy compares the cultural, historical and scientific knowledge of plant ecology, based on material from the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and contemporary recordings of Indigenous plant knowledge.