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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'.