We are looking forward to hearing visiting scholar Dr. Nick Brodie’s presentation, \u201cFrom PhD to Popular Author\u201d.<\/p>\n
After completing a doctoral dissertation in late medieval and early modern English vagrancy legislation, Nick Brodie has become a popular author of Australian history. His books, Kin: A Real People\u2019s History of Our Nation<\/em> (2015); 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia\u2019s Beginnings<\/em> (2016); and The Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain\u2019s Tasmanian Invasion<\/em> (2017) mark him as one of Australia\u2019s most prolific and critically acclaimed writers of popular history. In this talk Nick will discuss his journey from PhD to popular author. He will address the challenges of balancing scholarly integrity with popular accessibility, the opportunities for historians outside of the university sector, and will talk about some of the historical discoveries he has made along the way.<\/p>\n Please join us for Nick’s talk on Wednesday 15 November in Burns 5, starting at 3.30.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are looking forward to hearing visiting scholar Dr. Nick Brodie’s presentation, \u201cFrom PhD to Popular Author\u201d. After completing a doctoral dissertation in late medieval and early modern English vagrancy legislation, Nick Brodie has become a popular author of Australian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17463],"tags":[35307,53387,53385],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-seminar","tag-australian-history","tag-nick-brodie","tag-popular-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}