Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - HistoryHistoryBorn in Tasmania in 1931, educated at the University of Tasmania, University of London and the Australian National University (where he was awarded the Ph.D.), he joined the History Department of the University of Melbourne in 1964 and retired as a Reader in 1988. He died in August 1990. His publications include 'The Convict Settlement of Australia' (1965), 'The First AIF' (1970) and "The History of Tasmania' (2 vols, 1983 and 1991).