Graeme davison biography of william shakespeare

Australian historian, academic and author

Graeme John Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA (born 1940) is an Australian historian who is the Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Davison, Graeme.

Davison, Graeme.

In this week's ABR Podcast, Marilyn Lake reviews My Grandfather's Clock: Four centuries of a British-Australian family by historian Graeme Davison.

I show how the earliest biographies of Shakespeare emerged in the s in line with the Victorian need to identify national heroes.

A great-aunt's bequest - a year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past.

He is best known for his work on Australian urban history. Davison won the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 1979 for The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne.

Early life and education

Davison was born to a Methodist family that viewed itself as being of "modest respectability".^[1]

Davison received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne where he was a resident at Ormond College and then attended the University of Oxford as part of his Rhodes Scholarship.

Returned to Australia in the mid-1960s, Davison received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1969 for his thesis,The Rise and Fall of "Marvellous Melbourne" 1880–1895 under the supervision of John Andrew