Bill Gammage | |
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| Born | William Leonard Gammage 1942 (age 81–82) |
| Awards | 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 Gammage AM 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.