Carl Bridge (born 1950) is an Australian historian, academic, and professor emeritus of Australian History at
King's College London
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.
[Professor Carl Bridge.]
King's College London. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
Biography
Carl Bridge was born in Sydney and attended Fort Street Boys’ High School. He is a graduate of the
University of Sydney
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and
Flinders University
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. He taught at Flinders and the
University of New England, and was director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies,
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
from 1997 to 2014.
Carl Bridge.
The Conversation, King's. Retrieved 22 May 2015. He has been a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge; Churchill College
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In 1958, a trust was establish ...
, Cambridge; the Australian Prime Ministers' Centre; and the National Library of Australia
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. He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society
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Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
. Bridge is a former co-editor of ''London Papers in Australian Studies'' and ''Reviews in Australian Studies''.[ He often speaks and writes on Australian matters in the British and international media. He is currently co-editing a volume of the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series, on Australia in Peace and War, 1914–19.
]
Selected publications
*''Revolution: A History of the Idea''. London: Croom Helm
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, 1985. (Edited with David Close).
*''Holding India to the Empire: the British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution''. New Delhi: Sterling; London: Oriental, 1986.
*''A Trunk Full of Books: A History of the State Library of South Australia and its forerunners''. Adelaide: Wakefield, 1986.
*''Munich to Vietnam: Australia's Relations with Britain and the United States since the 1930s''. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
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History
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, 1991. (Edited).
*''Manning Clark: Essays on his Place in History''. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994. (Edited).
*''Between Empire and Nation: Australia's External Relations from Federation to the Second World War''. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly, 2000. (Edited with Bernard Attard).
*''The British World: Diaspora, Culture, Identity''. London: Frank Cass, 2003. (Edited with Kent Fedorowich).
*''A Delicate Mission: The Washington Diaries of R. G. Casey, 1940–42''. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2008. (Edited).
*''William Hughes: Australia''. London: Haus Publishing, 2011.
*''Australia and the United Kingdom 1960–1975''. Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2010. (Edited with S.R. Ashton & Stuart Ward)
*''The High Commissioners. Australia’s Representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910–2010''. Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, 2010. (Edited with Frank Bongiorno & David Lee).
*''Australia Goes to Washington: 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940–2015''. Canberra: ANU Press, 2016. Edited with David Lowe and David Lee).
References
External links
Carl Bridge at academia.edu
Spearing the Governor.
Natural History Museum
Academics of King's College London
Living people
Academics from Sydney
Flinders University alumni
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
University of Sydney alumni
Academic staff of the University of New England (Australia)
Academic staff of Flinders University
1950 births
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