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?
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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?
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“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
Essays & reportage
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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