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Graeme Davison Graeme Davison i(A87618 works by)
Born: Established: 1940 ;
Gender: Male
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'Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, where he was Visiting professor of Australian Studies, and at Monash University where he is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main interest is in the history of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States. He has been active as an advisor to heritage bodies, museums and in other fields of public history. His current projects include a history of suburban Australia and a project on national museums in a global era.' (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website)

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y separately published work icon Lost Relations : Fortunes of My Family in Australia's Golden Age Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8692855 2015 single work biography

'Through the lives of two generations of his forebears, one of Australia's most respected historians tells the story of English free settlers arriving in the mid-19th century: the miners, millers, storekeepers, free selectors and railwaymen who built the Australia we know today.

''I did not look for skeletons in my family's cupboard, but once the cupboard was open, they simply fell out.'

'A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came to be on the boat, and what happened on the high seas and afterwards in Australia, is a vivid tale of family ambitions and fears, successes and catastrophes.

'In Lost Relations, historian Graeme Davison follows in his family's footsteps, from the picture-postcard village of Newnham to a prison cell in Maitland, from a London slum to a miner's tent in Castlemaine. He takes us back into worlds now largely forgotten, of water-powered mills, free selectors and Methodist evangelists. The Hewetts were not famous or distinguished, but their story reveals much about the foundations of Australia.' (Publication summary)

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2015 winner Victorian Community History Award Judges’ Special Prize
y separately published work icon The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1978 Z1181054 1978 single work non-fiction (taught in 1 units)

'With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, social, and cultural consequences of the economic rise and fall of Melbourne during the 1880s.' (Publication summary, 2005 edition)

1979 highly commended National Book Council Award for Australian Literature
1978-1979 winner Ernest Scott Prize
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