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Ian McShane

Ian McShane is an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, and author of The Museum Movement: Carnegie Cultural Philanthropy and Museum Development in the Anglosphere, 1920–1940 (Routledge).

Books & arts Ian McShane 15 December 2025 Historian Shayne Breen goes deep into Tasmania’s past, and illuminates its present
National affairs Ian McShane 10 June 2025 A government falls in Tasmania as debate redoubles over a costly AFL-imposed stadium Books & arts Ian McShane 13 September 2024 The rise and fall of an experiment in self-directed learning Books & arts Ian McShane 25 June 2024 A chance find opened up a hidden world to historian Cassandra Pybus Books & arts Ian McShane 28 June 2012 Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
Books & arts Ian McShane 15 November 2011 Ian McShane reviews Natasha Cica’s account of the life of wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas and his role in the campaign to save Lake Pedder
Books & arts Ian McShane 21 June 2011 Two books look at places where social ecologies take root and flourish Books & arts Ian McShane 23 December 2010 Ian McShane reviews Andrew Leigh’s book about social capital in Australia Essays & reportage Ian McShane 3 March 2010 Should the loud and proud rhetoric of public libraries be reconsidered, asks Ian McShane National affairs Ian McShane 21 September 2009 Ignore the squabbling over school signs. What will be the long term legacy of the federal government’s education revolution, asks Ian McShane
Books & arts Ian McShane 18 May 2009 What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane