by Geoff BURCH
The Federation of Australian Historical Societies has released a new manual for historians, entitled Cultural landscapes training manual: a guide for historical societies, which is now available on their website: www.history.org.au/Cultural%20landscapes.html.
It covers environmental history with common terminology defined, cultural landscapes, and assessing the significance of a cultural landscape, managing cultural landscapes, and interpreting cultural landscapes. It was developed by a Victorian historian, Robyn Ballinger in 2012.
The Federation is keen for historical societies to publicise the landscapes manual which assists in work on these newer areas of research and activity.