History Teachers' Association NSW History Teachers' Association of NSW

This episode features an interview with Dr. Louise Zarmati from the University of Tasmania about her article 'Thinking Archaeologically about Australia's Deep Time History' published in the term 1 (2022) edition of the HTANSW journal 'Teaching History'. The interview focuses on the challenges and opportunities of teaching Australia's deep time past to students in early secondary school.

Our first episode for 2022 features an interview with Dr. Benjamin Jones from Central Queensland University. We discuss some of the themes and issues raised in his co-edited book 'History in a Post-Truth World: Theory and Praxis' published by Routledge in 2021.

This episode explores the history and historiography of witch trials and witch hunts. Our guest is Michael Street, history teacher and recipient of a 2019 Premier's Teacher Scholarship sponsored by HTANSW. Michael used his scholarship to travel to the United States and England to study the history of witch hunts and has written a chapter on this topic for the second edition of the History Extension Resource Book (HTANSW, 2020).

Dr. Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK) has written an authoritative account of Stalin's purge of the Red Army in the lead up to the Second World War. He joined us to talk about the history of state violence in Russia prior to 1917 and how terror became an important feature of the Soviet system after the October Revolution.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Michael Molkentin about his latest book 'Anzac and Aviator: The Remarkable Story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race' (Allen&Unwin, 2019). After briefly setting out the story, the interview focuses on questions of the methods used to construct the book.

Professor Roland Fletcher from the University of Sydney (Australia) is a world-leading scholar of the Khmer Empire. He generously gave his time to talk with us about the history of Angkor, the archaeology of the area and new approaches to understanding one of the most important heritage sites in the world.