This 'history of History' provides a series of perspectives on a major academic discipline at the University of Adelaide, from colonial times to the present. Essays by current and former academics and students explore the distinctive character of Adelaide's History Department. They highlight changing fashions and fortunes in modes of research, teaching and governance, and the numerous ways in which the university's historians interacted with civic, state, national and international communities.
Besides surveying the remarkable transformations of the History Office, Pasts Present includes a series of specially commissioned memoirs and reminiscences by History students from the 1940s to the 1980s, including former State Deputy Premier Don Hopgood and Federal Minister Amanda Vanstone. A reflective essay by Vesna Drapac, the first female Head of History, rounds out this lively portrait of a remarkably diverse, innovative and influential educational enterprise.
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Born and schooled in Melbourne, after post-graduate study in Oxford, Wilfrid Prest AM moved to Adelaide, where he has lived and worked for more than fifty years and is now Emeritus Professor of History and of Law. Besides contributing to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Oxford Companion to Australian History and the Journal of Australian Studies, he has edited a history of History at the University of Adelaide.
ISBN 9781743053263
CATEGORY History
IMAGES 16 pp greyscale photographs
PAGE COUNT 312
DIMENSIONS 234 x 160 mm
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'Finely tuned, richly informed and eminently readable.' - Alan Brissenden, Bibliofile, Vol. 14, No. 1
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'A valuable addition to the growing historiography addressing the Australian university experience.' - Kate Murphy, Australian Historical Studies
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'… uncommonly readable, engaging and stimulating. An original and novel narrative, by many hands, Pasts Present conveys a good deal of insider knowledge and perceptions about how universities have changed over an entire century …' - From the Foreword by Professor Eric Richards, Flinders University
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' … a terrific piece of microhistory: multum in parvo … I dips me lid.' - Ken Inglis, author of Sacred Places
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'Past students of history at the University of Adelaide will find much of interest in the book, but anyone interested in education of our future leaders, and the discussions going on today relating to university education generally will find plenty of food for thought.' - L.F., ARPS News