Guide to the Papers of Geoffrey Bolton, 1931-2015

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Summary

Collection number:
MS Acc05.053, Acc05.139, Acc06.118, Acc07.006.MS Acc16.016.MS Acc23.032
Creator:
Bolton, G.C., Professor (Geoffrey Curgenven)
Extent:
(70 ms boxes + 1 card box)
Language:
English and English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Geoffrey Bolton, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:
The collection documents Geoffrey Bolton's professional life as an historian, academic and author. They include correspondence, reviews, notes, projects, lectures, speeches, conference papers, drafts of writings, cuttings, photographs and other printed material. Subjects include Bolton's association with The Oxford History of Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Constitutional Centenary Foundation and the Australian Bicentennial History Project; papers relating to publications include 'A fine country to starve in', 'Being whitefella', 'Richard Daintree: a photographic memoir', 'Spoils and Spoilers: Australians make their environment 1788-1980', 'A Thousand miles away : a history of north Queensland to 1920', 'Dick Boyer, an Australian humanist', 'Paul Hasluck : a life' and 'Edmund Barton'.
Biographical Note:

Historian. Geoffrey Bolton was appointed Professor of History at Edith Cowan University in 1993, following his term as Professor of Australian History at the University of Queensland. Bolton has written several books including, A view from the edge: an Australian stocktaking (1992), The Oxford history of Australia, vol. 5, 1942-1995 (2nd ed., 1996), Edmund Barton (2000), and Land of vision and mirage: Western Australia since 1826 (2008). Bolton has also published several edited volumes. He has contributed to Australian historical studies, The Australian journal of politics and history, Australian economic history review, Journal of the Society of Arts, and Encyclopedia Britannica among other publications. In 1984 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of service to education. Bolton was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to the Centenary of Federation celebrations in Western Australia

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Indexed terms

Subjects:
Academic
History

Access and use

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Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Geoffrey Bolton, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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