The recent re-discovery of Captain Cook’s ship HMB Endeavour, a joint project between RIMP and the Australian National Maritime Museum, made world headlines.

Staff from the ANMM will discuss this discovery and the ongoing work still to be done.

Image: HM Bark Endeavour model 1967–70, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 00009219

Professor Gillian Russell explores the Prance collection to explain why British Romanticist Charles Lamb was interested in Australia, and how this was repaid by devotion from Australian readers.

Professor Russell is the 2018 national Library Fellow in Australian Literature, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.

Join award-winning author, Liam Pieper, as he reflects on researching and writing his revisionist historical novel Bittereinder, which explores the fate of Indigenous Australian soldiers who fought for the British in the Boer War.

Liam Pieper is the 2018 Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman trust.

Michel Tuffery maps the collaboration and interaction on first

contact between Tupaia and Cookie, his crew, the scientists and the artists at the Echoes of Cook seminar.

John Robson delivers 'A Chain of Surveyors: Cook to Stokes'.

This one-day seminar brings together local and international experts on Cook and his voyages with Indigenous Australian and Pacific Island voices, promising a soul-searching reshaping of our understanding of Cook as a scientist, navigator, and leader, and recognising how the lives of communities in the Pacific were forever changed following his journeys.

A panel of First Nations voices discusses the

continuing impact of Cook and his voyages on

First Nations peoples today.

The panel will be facilitated by Wiradjuri woman and

media personality Rae Johnston.

Professor John Maynard provides the key note topic 'James Cook: An Aboriginal Perspective' at the Echoes of Cook seminar.

Hear from a collection of curators and couriers on the materials of Cook and his voyages as they boldly explore the legacies and controversies of the complex figure that is Captain James Cook.

Dr Susannah Helman gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the development of the exhibition Cook and the Pacific.

Richard Fidler outlines some of the tensions that come into play when bringing someone’s life story to a listening audience, and he compares it to the freedoms and constraints involved in writing biography for a reader.

Richard Fidler hosts Conversations on ABC Radio, an hour-long interview show. His guests have included astronauts, authors and scientists, but the program often features remarkable people unknown to the wider world. More recently he's written several historical books, Ghost Empire, and Saga Land (co-written with Kari Gislason), which contain short biographies of historical figures from Byzantium and medieval Iceland.