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'While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as 'Australia's most distinguished historian', he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian - and few elsewhere - can match his 'span', to use one of his watchwords. Hancock was a major historian in four or five fields, who himself made history by going on a mission to Uganda for the British government in 1954 to mediate the future of Buganda after its ruler had been exiled. He was also, from a room in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the editor of a vast historical project: the writing of a series of accounts of British mobilisation on the home front during the Second World War. In addition, Hancock was a founder of the Australian National University, while his Australia (1930) remains one of the classic accounts of this country' (Publishers website).
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Dedication: For Barry Smith, Rodney Davenport and Ray Marginson. Mentors
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2012
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 36 no. 4 2012; (p. 520-521)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
Book on Errant Diggers Shares PM's History Prize
2011
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 December 2011; (p. 3) -
[Review] A Three-Cornered Life
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 42 no. 3 2011; (p. 433-435)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
History Man's Divided Soul
2011
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— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 28) -
The Picks of the Crop
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles.
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History's Wily Liberal Endures
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 July 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
Hancock's Parade
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 July 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
'Attachment, Justice and Span'
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 46-47)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
The Hancock Express
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , September vol. 5 no. 8 2010; (p. 6-7)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
Story of a Journeyman Historian
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 2 October 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock 2010 single work biography -
Bouncing on the Trampoline of Fact
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 42-45) -
The Picks of the Crop
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles. -
History Man's Divided Soul
2011
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— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 28) -
Book on Errant Diggers Shares PM's History Prize
2011
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 December 2011; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2011 joint winner Ernest Scott Prize Joint winner with Emma Christopher's A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and How It Led to the Settlement of Australia.
- 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize — Australian History Prize
- 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Non-Fiction Prize
- 2010-2011 joint winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History Joint winner with Peter Stanley's Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Great War.
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