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Elected to the Academy in 1990, Alan made a valuable contribution to European Imperial history and exploration, particularly in relation to the British occupation of Australia. His substantive digital archive relating to the colonisation of Australia, comprising over 2500 documents gathered from across the world, was acquired by the State Library of New South Wales […]

The passing of Elizabeth Pemberton is a great loss to classical archaeology, not only on account of her publication, in three magisterial volumes as well as many articles, of Classical and Hellenistic pottery and finds from ancient Corinth, but also for her rigour, integrity and intelligent approach to all the topics she investigated and interpreted.

Anthony or “Tony” Stephens, as he was called, was a distinguished scholar of German literature and philosophy and a decorated expert on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the playwright Heinrich von Kleist. He belonged to a rare breed of Australian-born academics who was as well known in German-speaking academic circles as he was at

Graham was an internationally renowned Archaeologist whose main research field was African archaeology. He was also considered one of the pioneers of Australian historical archaeology, with his major contribution being ‘The Archaeology of Australia’s History’. Graham was the founding editor of the journal Australasian Historical Archaeology, and a past President of the Australasian Society for

David Campbell Sim was born on 11 December 1957 in Melbourne’s inner north. His parents were working-class people with a great respect for educational advancement. Two of their four sons became professors and fellows of Learned Academies, David as a professor of religious studies and the other in the sciences. In the early 1980s, higher

Stephen Wallace Gaukroger was born in the northern English town of Oldham on 9 July 1950. He attended the newly founded Cardinal Langley Grammar School in Middleton, Manchester and proceeded to the Birmingham College of Commerce to study librarianship. Having dropped out, he moved to London and, after a few years’ hiatus, enrolled at Birkbeck