Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian. (Books: Above The Ruck).

From: Quadrant | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information 
 
Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an 
Historian, edited by D.A. Low; 
Melbourne University Press, 2001, 
$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 the Second World War, founding Director of the Institute ...

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