160 Years: 160 Stories: Brief biographies of 160 remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
160 Years: 160 Stories: Brief biographies of 160 remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne
By (Author) Peter McPhee
By (author) Juliet Flesch
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Press
18th October 2013
Australia
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
176
Width 183mm, Height 248mm, Spine 11mm
344g
Description
160 Years-160 Stories provides an insight into the University of Melbourne community from its foundation to the present day through the lives of people associated with every aspect of the University. Scholars and athletes, doctors and priests, actors and musicians, philosophers and linguists, administrators and student activists are among those whose lives are described. The reader will find well-known names and unsung heroes and heroines. All contributed to the Melbourne Experience of their time and form part of the kaleidoscope of University life.
Author Bio
Juliet Flesch spent thirty years as a librarian before turning to history. She has published on Australian popular romance fiction and the history of the University of Melbourne. Peter McPhee, the University's inaugural Provost, is a Professorial Fellow teaching and researching French history. His most recent book is Robespierre- A Revolutionary Life (2012).
