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Alistair Thomson Alistair Thomson i(A69774 works by)
Born: Established: 1960 ;
Gender: Male
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Alistair Thomson completed a degree in Arts at Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, in 1982, and subsequently moved to the United Kingdom where he completed an MA and DPhil in History at the University of Sussex. He taught for 16 years at the University of Sussex becoming Professor of Oral History, Director of the Centre for Life History Research and a Trustee of the Mass-Observation Archive. Between 1991 and 2007 he co-edited Oral History, the journal of the Oral History Society of Great Britain and also served as President of the International Oral History Association from 2006 - 2008.

In 2007 Thomson returned to Melbourne, Victoria, as Professor of History at Monash University and Director of the University's Institute for Public History.

Source: Monash University website, www.monash.edu.au (sighted 30/08/2011)

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Moving Stories : An Intimate History of Four Women across Two Countries Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 Z1802258 2011 single work biography 'This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century women's history. More than that, this is an exploration of the creation and interpretation of the stories we make of our lives through letters, photographs, life writing and oral history. What shapes women's life stories? What do they reveal and conceal? What can we learn when these women look back over their lives and the dramatic transformations of self, family and society since the 1930s?' (Manchester University Press website)
2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Community Relations Commission Award
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