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Carl Bridge (born 1950) is an Australian historian, academic, and professor emeritus of Australian History at
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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
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and
Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
. 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;
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, Cambridge; the Australian Prime Ministers' Centre; and the
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. He is also a fellow of the
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. 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:
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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:
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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).


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Carl Bridge at academia.eduSpearing 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 {{UK-historian-stub