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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 is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her mother taught in several Victorian state schools and her father owned the Austral Bookshop in Collins Street. After graduating in Arts from the University of Melbourne she spent thirteen years at the National Library of…

About The Author

Peter McPhee was appointed to a Personal Chair in History at the University of Melbourne in 1993. He has published widely on the history of modern France, most recently Living the French Revolution 1789-1799 (London, 2006); Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life (London, 2012); and Liberty or Death. The French Revolution (London, 2016). He was the University…