Consignment received 2023, 1940-2011

Component identifier:

Class 1

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises papers of Sheila Fitzpatrick. Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian dealing mainly with history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. She is widely regarded as being a leader in the history profession, who has made a major contribution to the history of modern Russia and is considered to be a founder of the field. Fitzpatrick was born in Melbourne in 1941 and was the eldest child of journalist, radical historian, socialist and civil liberties activist Brian Charles Fitzpatrick (1905-1965) and secondary and tertiary teacher Dorothy Mary Fitzpatrick (née Davis) (1913-2001) whose papers are also held by the National Library.

This collection comprises the papers of Sheila Fitzpatrick relating to her early life in Australia, study and career in the United Kingdom and Russia, as well as papers relating to her professional life following her return to Australia. The collection includes papers relating to Fitzpatrick's childhood (correspondence, scrapbook, photographs), secondary school and University (pocket diaries, poetry, correspondence), early career in United Kingdom (1964-1970), Moscow in the 1960s, and general personal correspondence (crossing all periods). Also included are some papers of Brian and Dorothy Fitzpatrick.

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Academic

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