Manning Clark Bicentennial History Award (1988) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995) Queensland Premier's History Book Award (1999) Member of the Order of Australia (2005) Manning Clark House National Cultural Award (2011) Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2012) Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction (2012) Queensland Literary Awards History Book Award (2012)
Academic background
Alma mater
Australian National University
Thesis
The Broken Years: A Study of the Diaries and Letters of Australian Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–18 (1970)
Doctoral advisor
Bruce Kent
Influences
Charles Bean
Academic work
Institutions
Australian National University (1997–03) University of Adelaide (1977–96) University of Papua New Guinea (1972–76)
Main interests
Australian history
Notable works
The Broken Years (1974) The Biggest Estate on Earth (2011)
William Leonard GammageAM, FASSA (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU).
Gammage was born in Orange, New South Wales, went to Wagga Wagga High School and then to ANU.[1] He was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and deputy chair of the National Museum of Australia.
^HRC webmaster (11 June 2008). "ANU – Fellows – Gammage- HRC". anu.edu.au. Director, Humanities Research Centre. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
William Leonard Gammage AM, FASSA (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Humanities Research...
much as hunter-gatherers. Pascoe also draws on the work of historian BillGammage, author of The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia...
ASU Gammage (formerly known as Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium) is a multipurpose performing arts center at 1200 South Forest Avenue at East Apache Boulevard...
through the preceding 5,000 years. These concepts led the historian BillGammage to argue that in effect the whole continent was a managed landscape....
1768–1771, Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955, p. 387. BillGammage, "Early Boundaries of New South Wales", Historical Studies, Vol.19, No...
Library of Australia. 12 February 1910. p. 43. Retrieved 15 April 2012. BillGammage, (2011) The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia, Allen...
Gammage, Bill (October 2011). The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia. Allen & Unwin. pp. 281–304. ISBN 978-1-74237-748-3. Gammage...
of Les Misérables. For this role, he won Best Lead Male at the 2019 ASU Gammage High School Musical Theatre Awards. This award made Likes a contestant...
Prize for Literature 2010s 2011: Kim Scott (That Deadman Dance) 2012: BillGammage (The Biggest Estate on Earth) 2013: no award 2014: Jennifer Maiden (Liquid...
interests Australian military history First World War Notable works Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 Influenced Gavin Long BillGammage...
Robert Alton "Bob" Gammage (March 13, 1938 – September 10, 2012) was a Texas politician, having served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives...
watercolours and pencil drawings, which, according to his biographer, BillGammage, displayed "a fondness for Palestine's countryside and a feeling for...
January 2017. "Scotland on Film". 16 October 2014. Dunera Lives, by BillGammage, Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark, Jay Winter and Carol Bunyan; Monash University...
from Two Brothers Killed in France in 1916", Ed. Margaret Young and BillGammage, Kangaroo Press 1995 ISBN 0-86417-707-0. Also "Records of an Australian...
Hofmann John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Kris McQuade Short IMDb Mutiny on the Western Front Richard Dennison F. Birdwood, BillGammage, Kaiser Wilhelm II Documentary...
licence. Gammage, Bill (1983). The Wiradjuri war 1838-40. p. 40. Retrieved 7 July 2018. (Eyre 1965 (1832-59): 175). WLC 1980 Gammage, Bill (1930). Papers...
The Deed, National Museum of Australia". Retrieved 3 November 2008. Bill, Gammage (2011). The biggest estate on earth: how Aborigines made Australia....
has become well known and has been favourably compared by Professor BillGammage to All Quiet on the Western Front. The driving theme of mateship is strong...
Catalogue entry Breaking the road for the rest, NLA Catalogue entry BillGammage, 'Joynt, William Donovan (1889–1986)', Australian Dictionary of Biography...
and the town theatre and community hall are all named in his honour. Bill, Gammage (1996). "Gratwick, Percival Eric (1902–1942)". Australian Dictionary...
birds and plant foods. (Note that some historians dispute this, such as BillGammage and Bruce Pascoe (in his Dark Emu).) Post-colonisation, the Aboriginal...
Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars, Penguin, Melbourne, p.78 BillGammage, (2011) The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia, Allen...
artist Jonathan Jones, writer and researcher Bruce Pascoe and historian BillGammage, is the subject of an exhibition entitled Bunha-bunhanga: Aboriginal...
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