Kate Fullagar is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University. Her latest books include The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire (Yale University Press, 2020) and Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
Books & arts
A gateway drug to history
Kate Fullagar
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
Unsettling portraits
Kate Fullagar & Michael A. McDonnell
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Books & arts
Why the humanities are worth fighting for
Kate Fullagar
21 February 2025
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum hasn’t quite nailed the problem, or the possible solutions
Books & arts
Reframing Gauguin
Kate Fullagar
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
Books & arts
Living with loss
Kate Fullagar
28 May 2024
What brought the Age of Enlightenment to an end?
Books & arts
“I weep more at a wedding than a funeral.”
Kate Fullagar
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Books & arts
Western civilisation and its discontents
Kate Fullagar
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Essays & reportage
All that remains
Kate Fullagar
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Retrospective
Why does Truth come third?
Kate Fullagar
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
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