Geoffrey Blainey: Writing Australian history - A few reflections

In this Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture, Stephen's friend and colleague Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC speaks about the challenges and changes he has experienced over more than 50 years of writing Australian history. Blainey is one of Australia's most significant, popular and sometimes controversial historians, highly regarded for the originality and breadth of his historical writing. In all he has written some 37 books, including such influential works as The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, The Causes of War, A Short History of the 20th Century and A Short History of the World.

State Library of Victoria, October 2008 

(Part 1 of 2) 

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State Library of Victoria

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