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Henry Reynolds

Australian historian · Australia · On the map · Writers · Born 1938 · age 88

Henry Reynolds is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians.

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1999Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in AustraliaAwardFellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAward1997Australian National Living TreasureAward1996Banjo Award for Non-FictionAward1938Born1 March 1938

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Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia1999
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities1999
Australian National Living Treasure1997
Banjo Award for Non-Fiction1996

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He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights, becoming known with his first major work, The Other Side of the Frontier (1981).

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Australia
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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Born 1938 · age 88