AustLit

'There is a heaven for those writers whose work lives for generations, and Stuart Macintyre's will. This is not a conventional Festschrift, editors Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski tell us, where ‘invited scholars are licensed to give the subject a nod before bolting off elsewhere on their own’ (2). Instead, each contributor engages with a particular area of Stuart's work, and while some are reminiscences of collaboration and collegiality, others are extended conversations between close colleagues and comrades that we are privileged to overhear. The Work of History not only brings Stuart back, often in ways unknown to some of us, but will ensure that those who never knew him will enjoy his intellectual companionship.'(Introduction)