Last year, I and several other historians published ‘Creative Histories and the Australian context’, a “preliminary attempt” to define Creative History within the field of those writing on Australian history, including its potential for helping give further expression to neglected indigenous and feminist perspectives and sources, informed by interviews with ten other practitioners of Creative History. It marked my most recent engagement with this important area of current research. My writings on Creative History include:
Kiera Lindsey, Anna Clark, Mariko Smith, Donna Brien, Craig Batty & Rachel Landers, ‘Creative Histories and the Australian context’, History Australia, 19:2 April 2022. DOI 10.1080/14490854.2022.2050465
Kiera Lindsey, Indigenous approaches to the past: “Creative Histories” at the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney’, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, March 2020, 9:1, 83-102.
In February 2020, I participated in the ABC Radio Speaking Out programme ‘Creativity on Gadigal Land’, alongside Jonathan Jones, Wesley Enoch, and Emily McDaniel. The full episode can be heard here.
In 2018 I was a frequent contributor to the Australian Centre for Public History’s History Bytes series. In these brief talks, I discussed topics from archives to biography, and the need for creative approaches to the past.