Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Layman & Jenny Gregory, ed.
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2017
Geoffrey Bolton [1931-2015] was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the country’s regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patterns and political life. He was also unflagging in his encouragement of others. The contributors to this volume take his work as a departure point for original essays on a variety of themes in Australian history. (blurb)
Essays from Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory, Lenore Layman, Carol Bolton, Mark McKenna, Graeme Davison, Carl Bridge, Alan Atkinson, Andrea Gaynor, Tom Griffiths, Tim Rowse, Lizzy Watt, Mary Anne Jebb and Pat Jalland.
An extract from the Andrea Gaynor-Tom Griffiths article on Bolton’s environmental history. Reviews by Ross Fitzgerald and Wilfred Prest (paywall). Two reviews of Bolton’s final book, a biography of Sir Paul Hasluck.
