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Farewell, John Hirst

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

The distinguished Australian historian John Hirst has sadly died at age 73. Those who knew him at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he held appointments from 1968 until his retirement in 2006, have remembered his kindness and decency as a colleague and mentor, and his talent and originality as an historian and public intellectual.

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