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Published 22-10-2013
ISBN 9780522864878
Pages 176
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP Digital

160 Years: 160 Stories

Brief biographies of 160 remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne

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Published 22-10-2013
ISBN 9780522864878
Pages 176
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP Digital

160 Years:160 Stories provides an insight into the University of Melbourne community from its foundation to the present day through the lives of people associated with every aspect of the University. Scholars and athletes, doctors and priests, actors and musicians, philosophers and linguists, administrators and student activists are among those whose lives are described. The reader will find well-known names and unsung heroes and heroines. All contributed to the Melbourne Experience of their time and form part of the kaleidoscope of University life.

About The Author

Juliet Flesch spent thirty years as a librarian before turning to history. She has published on Australian popular romance fiction and the history of the University of Melbourne. Peter McPhee, the University's inaugural Provost, is a Professorial Fellow teaching and researching French history. His most recent book is Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life (2012).

About The Author

Peter McPhee spent his childhood in a small country town and his student days at the University of Melbourne. He taught at La Trobe University and the Victoria University of Wellington before returning to the University of Melbourne, where he has held a Personal Chair in History since 1993. He has published widely on the…