Richard Broome
Encyclopedia
Richard Broome is a professor of history
at La Trobe University
, Melbourne
, Australia
.
He is widely recognised as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia.
In 2007 his book Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 won the Victorian Community History Awards
category Best Print / Publication.
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
at La Trobe University
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
He is widely recognised as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia.
In 2007 his book Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 won the Victorian Community History Awards
Victorian Community History Awards
The Victorian Community History Awards were inaugurated and sponsored by Information Victoria Bookshop from 1998 to 2010. From 2011 the Awards were administered by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in partnership with Public Record Office Victoria...
category Best Print / Publication.
Books
- Sideshow Alley (1988) ISBN 1864487593 - with Alice Jackomos
- Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 (2005) ISBN 9781741145694
- Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 (2010) ISBN 9781742370514
- A Man of All Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos (2006) ISBN 9780855755010 - with Corrinne Manning