A. G. L. Shaw
| A. G. L. Shaw | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Alan George Lewers Shaw |
| Born |
3 February 1916 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Died | 5 April 2012 (aged 96) Melbourne, Victoria |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1967) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1967) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (1973) Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society (1979) Officer of the Order of Australia (1982) Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies (1998) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne (BA [Hons]) University of Oxford (MA) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
Monash University (1964–81) University of Sydney (1952–63) University of Melbourne (1941–51) |
| Main interests | Australian history Colonial history |
Alan George Lewers Shaw AO, FAHA, FASSA, FRAHS, FRHSV (3 February 1916 – 5 April 2012) was an Australian historian and author of several text books and historiographies on Australian and Victorian history. He taught at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, and was Professor of History at Monash University from 1964 until his retirement in 1981.
Shaw was born in Melbourne on 3 February 1916 to George Shaw, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel née Lewers. Shaw was educated at Melbourne Grammar School where he was on the debating team, played violin in the orchestra and was awarded the Frank Grey Smith Scholarship for Classics or Modern Languages. He entered Trinity College at the University of Melbourne in 1935, where he was President of the Dialectic Society in 1938. After graduating BA with first class honours in History and Political Science, Shaw tutored at Trinity College before leaving for further study at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA (later MA) with a First in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) program in 1940. While there, he was a member of the Oxford Union Society and the Oxford University Music Society.
Shaw returned to Australia in 1940, working for the Federal Departments of Information, Army and Post-War Reconstruction. From 1941, alongside these government positions, Shaw returned to Melbourne University as part-time Lecturer in Economic History and Tutor at Trinity College. During 1944 Shaw was appointed as joint Acting Dean of Trinity College, and as Dean in 1947. Shaw was Captain of the squash team, and Vice-President of the Dialectic Society at Trinity from 1941 to 1950. In 1946, Shaw became Lecturer in Modern History. He was associate editor of the journal Historical Studies (now Australian Historical Studies) from 1949 to 1951, and was a member of its editorial board. In 1950 he was awarded a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship and spent a year undertaking research in England into Australia's convict period.
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