Carl Bridge | |
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Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Sydney, New South Wales |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sydney (BA [Hons]) Flinders University (PhD, DipEd) |
Thesis | The British Conservative Party and All-India Federation, 1927–40 (1977) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | King's College London (1997–) University of New England (1983–97) Flinders University (1977–81) |
Main interests | Australian political and diplomatic history;British imperial history;military history |
Carl Bridge (born 1950) is an Australian historian,academic,and professor emeritus of Australian History at King's College London. [1]
Carl Bridge was born in Sydney and attended Fort Street Boys’High School. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Flinders University. He taught at Flinders and the University of New England,and was director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies,King's College London from 1997 to 2014. [2] He has been a fellow of Clare Hall,Cambridge;Churchill College,Cambridge;the Australian Prime Ministers' Centre;and the National Library of Australia. He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Bridge is a former co-editor of London Papers in Australian Studies and Reviews in Australian Studies. [1] 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.[ citation needed ]
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