Encourages reflection on the nature of history, historical representation and the process of making histories through the examination of Australian urban history and historiography. The history of Australian cities, their origins and development and the varieties of lives in them will be introduced, with reference to the long neglect of cities in favour of the Bush. Seminars will further develop understandings of Australian cities through the close study of texts relating to issues such as images of cities, inter urban competition and gender and ethnicity in cities.