Biography Fellows

Ian Hancock

Ian Hancock is an historian and biographer. He has written extensively on the political history of Uganda and Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; he has also lectured in imperial, colonial and African history at Monash University and in African, Australian and British history at the Australian National University. Now Ian is considered to be the pre-eminent historian of the Liberal Party in Australia.

He has written many entries on Liberal Party figures for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, including the acclaimed article on former Prime Minister Harold Holt and, in 2002, published a full-scale biography of the former prime minister, Sir John Gorton. Ian is currently working on biographies of public service mandarin, Sir Frederick Wheeler, former NSW premier, Nick Greiner, and former Liberal Senator, Sir John Carrick, and is writing the chapter on Sir Roden Cutler for a forthcoming book on NSW governors.

curriculum vitae
email: ihancock@webone.com.au

Neville Kirk

Neville Kirk is Professor of Social and Labour History at Manchester Metropolitan University in England. An acknowledged expert in the field of labour history, he is on the steering committe of the international research group, 'Labour and Globalization' based at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of Labour History Review, The Society for the Study of Labour History, Labour History and International Labor and Working Class History. He also edited the Lives of the Left series of labour biographies and co-edited the Dictionary of Labour Biography.

In October-December 2009, Neville will be a Biography Fellow at the NCB where he intends to work on the project 'Approaches to Transnational Labour History: Biographies Agencies and Ideas'. He will also hold a series of workshops on biography and the online environment.

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email: n.kirk@mmu.ac.uk