Dr James Waghorne

University History Program, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

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Arts & Culture

Universities can change names without distancing themselves from troubling histories

Removing a person’s name from a building need not mean the University severs its relationship with its past, instead it is an opportunity to redefine our future

Arts & Culture

In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began

An Indigenous-led book challenges the presumption that universities make only ‘good’ contributions to the community – confronting the University of Melbourne’s disturbing history

Education

Remembrance Day: Updating an incomplete record

Almost a century after the First World War, the University’s war records are still being updated with new names of those who served and died - and there may be more

Arts & Culture

The medical student who helped change Australia

Ismail bin Abdul Rahman’s graduation from the University of Melbourne sparked a cultural shift that contributed to the end of the White Australia Policy