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Geoffrey Bolton interviewed by Neville Meaney for the Neville Meaney collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 793880
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Bolton, G. C. (Geoffrey Curgenven), 1931-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1986 
2 sound cassettes (ca. 110 min.) : 1 7/8 ips. 
Series

Neville Meaney collection.

Summary

Professor Geoffrey Bolton, Australian history, speaks about his family background; his early interest in history; studying history at University of Western Australia; influence of his lecturers; events in the period; his interest in the moral complexities of Australian history; his views on Communism and the British Commonwealth; his Master of Arts thesis on the history of the Kimberley pastoral industry; studying at Oxford; his Doctor of Philosophy thesis about the Irish Act of Union; his book A Thousand Miles Away; and his approach to teaching history.

Notes

Part of a collection of interviews with senior Australian historians, conducted in an attempt to define the influences upon creation of history in Australia.

Recorded at Murdoch University, Western Australia on 11 September 1986.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 35 leaves) 
Subjects Bolton, G. C. - (Geoffrey Curgenven), - 1931- - Interviews.  |  Historians - Australia - Interviews.  |  College teachers - Australia - Interviews.  |  History - Study and teaching - Australia.  |  Historiography - Australia.
Other authors/contributors Meaney, N. K. (Neville Kingsley), Interviewer

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