Geoffrey Serle

Geoffrey Serle
Serle in 1946
Born(1922-03-10)10 March 1922
Died27 April 1998(1998-04-27) (aged 76)
AwardsRhodes Scholarship (1947)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1970)
Colin Roderick Award (1971, 1982)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1973)
The Age Non-fiction Award (1982)
Officer of the Order of Australia (1986)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (BA [Hons])
University of Oxford (DPhil)
InfluencesPercival Serle
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Max Crawford
Manning Clark
Academic work
InstitutionsMonash University
University of Melbourne
Main interestsAustralian history
Biography
Colonial Victoria
Notable worksThe Golden Age (1963)
The Rush to be Rich (1971)
John Monash (1982)

Alan Geoffrey Serle AO, FAHA, FASSA (10 March 1922 – 27 April 1998), known as Geoff, was an Australian historian, who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; The Golden Age (1963) and The Rush to be Rich (1971) and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Biography of Elsie Curtin | JCPML [live]". 15 January 2020.
  2. ^ Wallace Kirsop (1998), "Library Profile: Geoffrey Serle", The La Trobe Journal, No 61, Autumn 1998, State Library of Victoria Foundation.