Richard Broome | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 October 1948 |
| Awards | Fellowship of Australian Writers Local History Prize (1987, 2005) New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize (2006) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2006) Victorian Community History Award for Best Print / Publication (2007) Member of the Order of Australia (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales (BA) University of Sydney (PhD) |
| Thesis | Protestantism in New South Wales Society, 1900–1914 (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Indigenous history |
| Institutions | La Trobe University |
| Notable works | Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 |
Richard Laurence Broome, AM, FAHA (born 1 October 1948) is an Australian historian, academic, and emeritus professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is known as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia.
In 2007 Broome's book Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 won the Victorian Community History Awards for Best Print / Publication.
Broome was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to education in the field of history, and to historical groups".[1]