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David Day | |
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| Born | David Andrew Day Melbourne, Australia |
| Awards | South Australian Festival Award for Non-Fiction (1998) Queensland Premier's History Book Award (2000) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2004) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA [Hons]) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | La Trobe University University College Dublin Bond University |
| Main interests | Australian political history |
| Website | www |
David Andrew Day is an Australian historian,academic,and author. He is known for his many historical works of non-fiction,including several biographies of former Australian prime ministers and other works on Australian political history.
David Andrew Day was born in Melbourne,Victoria. The son of a weather forecaster with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology,he grew up in Melbourne and Charleville,Queensland. [1] [ failed verification ][ better source needed ]
He commenced accounting studies,in which he performed poorly owing to his political activity,which included protesting against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. [1] [ better source needed ]
After a short period of work,Day returned to his studies and graduated with first-class honours in history and political science from the University of Melbourne.[ citation needed ] He was later awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge. [2]
Day has been official historian of the Australian Customs Service and the Bureau of Meteorology,Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin,professor of Australian studies at the University of Tokyo,an Australian Research Council senior research fellow in the history program at La Trobe University and the Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College at Cambridge University. As of 2012 he was an honorary associate in the history program at La Trobe University in Melbourne. [2]
Day has written widely on Australian history and the history of the Second World War. Among his many books are Menzies and Churchill at War (about Australian prime minister Robert Menzies and British prime minister Winston Churchill during the Second World War) and a two-volume study of Anglo-Australian relations during the Second World War.[ citation needed ]