Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - HistoryHistoryHistorian David Philips was born in 1946 in Johannesburg where he graduated B.A. in 1966 from Witwatersrand University. Loathing South Africa's racial policies he left there for England in 1967. He took another undergraduate degree in history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a doctorate from Nuffield College. He was appointed to a lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Melbourne in 1974 and later taught courses in the histories of Australia, South Africa and the British Empire. He became an Associate Professor in 1994. He renewed his interest in South Africa after it became a democracy and his later research was on its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Highly regarded for his erudition across a range of areas, he retired from the University at the end of 2007. David Philips died on August 6, 2008.
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