TALK: Friends of the UWA Library Speaker
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Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Fifty Years of the Australian Dictionary of Biography |
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About the talk
The Australian Dictionary of Biography is probably Australia's finest example of collaborative research in the social sciences. Inspired by Laurie Fitzhardinge and Sir Keith Hancock, it was established at the Australian National University in the early 1960s. By 2014 it has produced nineteen volumes covering the lives of thousands of Australians, some eminent, some notorious, and some included as typifying aspects of the Australian experience. Challenged by turbulent personality clashes in its early years and financial pressures and the move to computer technology in more recent years, it has survived all it’s vicissitudes under a succession of able editors. Geoffrey Bolton was an eye-witness of its creation when a young postdoctoral fellow at ANU, later serving on the national editorial committee and as member of the Western Australian working party. He will recall some of the highlights of that experience.
About the Speaker
Professor Geoffrey Bolton is a graduate of The University of Western Australia who has held positions at a number of universities, among them professor of modern history, University of Western Australia, 1966-73, foundation professor of Australian studies, University of London, 1982-85, and chancellor of Murdoch University 2002-06, having previously served as foundation professor of history there. He has recently completed a biography of Sir Paul Hasluck.
Members Free, Non-Members $5 donation (There will be a short AGM immediately followed by the speaker)
Speaker(s) |
Professor Geoffrey Bolton
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Location |
Reid Library Ground Floor Meeting Room, UWA
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Contact |
Susan O'Connor
<[email protected]>
: 6488 2354
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Start |
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:00
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End |
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:00
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Submitted by |
Susan O'Connor <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:13
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