Bad Characters by Peter Stanley5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() His 2010 book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Murder, Mutiny and the Australian Imperial Force was jointly awarded the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. He has published 30 books, mainly in the field of Australian military-social history, though he has also published in British imperial military history (White Mutiny), battlefield research (A Stout Pair of Boots) medical history (For Fear of Pain) and bushfires (Black Saturday at Steels Creek). As a public historian Peter worked across the range of responsibilities of museums in exhibitions, publications, public programs and education as well as in research. He spent 33 years as a ‘public historian’ working with the Australian War Memorial (where he was Principal Historian) and at the National Museum of Australia (inaugural head of its Research Centre) before commencing at UNSW Canberra in 2013 as Research Professor. Peter Stanley is a Professor at the University of New South Wales. ![]()
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