Australian historians

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 90. Chapters: Ann Trindade, Manning Clark, Keith Windschuttle, Edward Duyker, Rupert Downes, Charles Bean, Jessie Webb, Geoffrey Blainey, Alan Gilbert, Peter Bellwood, Paul Hasluck, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ion Idriess, David Kent, Joyce Nicholson, Stuart Macintyre, Bill Gammage, Gavan McCormack, Anthony Milner, Barry Hill, Henry Reynolds, Kylie Tennant, Brian Plomley, Frank Clune, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Tom Frame, Ronald Horan, Peter Christopher, Arthur Wesley Wheen, Margaret Reeson, Bernard Whimpress, Phillip Knightley, Bill Bunbury, Gavin Long, George Odgers, Patsy Adam-Smith, Bernard William Smith, Matthew Glozier, Don Talbot, Ernest Scott, Barbara Thiering, Arthur Patrick, Fred Alexander, Grenfell Price, Inga Clendinnen, Arthur Wilberforce Jose, George William Rusden, Keith Hancock, Donald Horne, Michael Fullilove, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Kenneth McIntyre, Alan Frost, Ross Fitzgerald, Ernest Favenc, Alexander Sutherland, Max Crawford, James Franklin, Henry Gyles Turner, Russel Ward, Christopher Clark, Dale Spender, Gavin Souter, Miles Lewis, E. Morris Miller, Paul R. Bartrop, Mark Peel, Marnie Bassett, John Leo McNamara, Nicholas Doumanis, Les Carlyon, Thomas Millar, John Dickson, Patrick O'Farrell, Peter Cochrane, Jackie Huggins, Frank Walker, Roderick Weir Home, Geoffrey Serle, Weston Bate, Paul Carter, Paul Collins, Eric Jones, David Day, Allan Bromley, David Hill, Phillip Bradley, Eric Andrews, Kenneth Wheare, John Manning Ward, Milton Osborne, Ross Terrill, Peter L'Estrange, Robert Aldrich, Ian Jones, George Arnold Wood, Frank van Straten, Max Solling, Malcolm Henry Ellis, Marjorie Tipping, Arthur Hoyle, Lyndall Ryan, Rhys Isaac, Marilyn Lake, Mark Johnston, Ken Inglis, Gregory Melleuish, Ida Lee, John A. Tully, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Hugh Stretton, Colin Tatz, Humphrey McQueen, Michael Roe, Margaret Hazzard, Shirleene Robinson, John Moorhead, Brian Stoddart, Mark Elvin, Andrew Moore, Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Tony Matthews, A. G. L. Shaw, John Christian Vaughan, George Mackaness, Robert Coupe. Excerpt: Charles Manning Hope Clark, AC (3 March 1915 - 23 May 1991), an Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian", but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservative and classical liberal academics and philosophers. Clark was born in Sydney in 1915, the son of Rev Charles Clark, an English-born Anglican priest from a working-class background (he was the son of a London carpenter), and Catherine Hope, who came from an old Australian establishment family. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Rev Samuel Marsden, the "flogging parson" of early colonial New South Wales. He had a difficult relationship with his mother, who never forgot her superior social origins, and came to identify her with the Protestant middle class he so vigorously attacked in his later work. His family moved to Melbourne when he was a child; and lived in what one biographer describes as "genteel poverty" on the modest income of an Anglican vicar. Clark's happiest memories of his youth were of the years 1922-24, when his father was the vicar of Phillip Island, south-east of Melbourne, where he acquired the love of fishing and of cricket, which he retained for the rest of his life. He was educated at state schools at Cowes and Belgrave,...