Geoffrey Bolton
| Geoffrey Bolton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton 5 November 1931 Perth, Western Australia |
| Died | 4 September 2015 (aged 83) Perth, Western Australia |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1974) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1976) Officer of the Order of Australia (1984) New South Wales Premier's Centenary of Federation Prize (2001) Western Australian of the Year (2006) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
University of Western Australia (MA) University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
Edith Cowan University (1994–96) University of Queensland (1989–93) Murdoch University (1973–89) University of Western Australia (1966–73) Monash University (1962–65) Australian National University (1957–61) |
| Main interests | Australian history Biography British Commonwealth history |
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton AO, FASSA, FAHA (5 November 1931 – 4 September 2015) was an Australian historian, academic and writer.
He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947. He published works on Australian history, authoring 13 books, his final being Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826.
His book, Daphne Street, published by Fremantle Press, describes his early surrounds, and is an attempt to write national history at the local level.
He was a frequent contributor to radio in Western Australia and did much to bring Western Australian history and socio-political development to life.
Part of his career was spent setting up the Australian Studies Centre (now the Menzies Centre) at the University of London in the United Kingdom.
He was Chairperson of the Western Australian Maritime Museum's Archaeology Advisory Committee.
Bolton was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. He served as the Chancellor of Murdoch University from 2002 to 2006.
In 2008, he published a single-volume short history of Western Australia since the start of British settlement in 1826, covering the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world.
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