Guide to the Papers of Cameron Hazlehurst, 1951-1996

Summary

Collection number:

MS 7998

Creator:

Cameron Hazlehurst

Extent:

(5 cartons + 1 large folio box + 128 ms boxes)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Cameron Hazlehurst, National Library of Australia, MS 7998, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part requires permission for research; part not available for research until 2050. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The papers include correspondence (mostly carbon copies and photocopies of Hazlehurst's letters), diaries, files and research material, typescripts, galley proofs, notes, cuttings, photocopies and printed material.

Biographical Note:

Cameron Hazlehurst was born in Harrogate, England, in 1941 and emigrated to Australia with his family in 1951. He matriculated from Melbourne High School in 1959 and completed his Bachelor's degree at Melbourne University in 1963. After a brief period as a Teaching Fellow in History at Monash University (1964-65), he continued his studies at Balliol and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford, obtaining a Doctorate in Modern History in 1969. He held the positions of Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in 1968-70 and at Queen's College in 1970-72.

Subsequent positions include those of Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU (1972-73, 1975-92) and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Urban and Regional Development in Canberra (1973-75). His most recent position was as head of the School of Humanities at the Queensland University of Technology.

Hazlehurst has been engaged in various research, advisory and consultancy projects, including the biography of Sir Winston Churchill, the Political records project on British parliamentarians, the BBC series on The British Empire, the Mastermind program for ABC television and as an adviser to the Australian Frontier Organisation.

His publications includes Politicians at war, July 1914 to May 1915 (1971), Reforming Australian government: the Coombs report and beyond (1977), Menzies observed (1979), The mastermind book (1979), Australian Conservatism: essays in twentieth century political history (1979), and Gordon Chalk: a political life (1987).

References: Who's who in Australia 1993, p. 616.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library under the Taxation for the Arts

Scheme in 1987-1988. A second addition was donated under this scheme in February 1992.

Indexed terms

Names:

Cameron Hazlehurst

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2912363).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Cameron Hazlehurst, National Library of Australia, MS 7998, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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