Robin Gollan

Robin Allenby Gollan
Born(1917-12-05)5 December 1917
Woodburn, New South Wales
Died15 October 2007(2007-10-15) (aged 89)
Canberra, Australia
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (BA)
London School of Economics (PhD)
Thesis"Radical and working class politics in Australia, 1850-1910"
Doctoral advisorHarold Laski
Academic work
School or traditionOld Left
InstitutionsAustralian National University
Sydney Teachers' College
Main interestslabour history, banking history

Robin "Bob" Gollan (8 December 1917 – 15 October 2007) was an Australian historian noted for having written the first history of a trade union. According to Stuart Macintyre, this began studies in labour history in Australia.[1] Others have argued that Gollan began the "second generation" of labour history.[2] Along with his former student and colleague, Eric Fry (1921-2007), Gollan established the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and its journal, Labour History, in 1961.[3]

  1. ^ Stuart Macintyre, Obituary of Bob Gollan, 2007, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/gollan-robin-allenby-bob-32367
  2. ^ Verity Burgmann, "A Greater Concentration of Power: The Intellectual Legacy of Eric Fry and Robin Gollan" Labour History (2008), pg. 25.
  3. ^ Peter Love, Obituary of Eric Fry, 2021, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/fry-eric-charles-32609