Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - HistoryHistoryFrom separate origins in the 1850s and 60s the Melbourne Teachers' College and the Secondary Teachers' College amalgamated in 1972 to become the Melbourne College of Advanced Education. Subsequently the MCAE amalgamated with the University of Melbourne on 1 January 1989. D.S. Garden, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, was in charge of the History Department of the College and author of The Melbourne Teacher Training College; from Training Institution to Melbourne State College 1870-1982, Melbourne, Heinemann, 1982. When the MCAE amalgamated with the University he joined the staff of the University's History Department.