D A Low (ed), Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Australian Studies | Date: December 15, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 303, $32.95.

This book contains papers delivered at a 'Sir Keith Hancock Symposium' held in the Australian National University in Canberra in 1998, the centenary of Hancock's birth and ten years after his death. In a distinguished career, Hancock had been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Professor in the Universities of Adelaide, Birmingham, Oxford, London and the ANU, general editor of the British Civil Histories of World War II, founding Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, founding ...

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