Beverley Kingston FASSA (born 1941) is an Australian historian. She is author of volume 3 of the Oxford History of Australia.[1]

Early life and education

Beverley Rhonda Kingston was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1941,[2] but grew up in north Queensland where her father was a manager with the Commonwealth Bank. She attended Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick, Queensland as a boarder before enrolling in the University of Queensland, from which she graduated in 1963 with a BA (hons).[3] Moving to Melbourne, she completed a PhD at Monash University in 1968.[4]

Career

Kingston joined the University of New South Wales in 1969 and worked there for 30 years, retiring in 1999.[3]

She has been actively involved in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) since 1974, including as chair of the NSW advisory group (1994–) and as a member of the Editorial Board (1996–).[5] Her thirty contributions to the ADB include biographies of feminist Maybanke Anderson,[6] poet Dorothea Mackellar[7] and editor Beatrice Deloitte Davis.[8]

Kingston was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1994.[9]

Works

  • Kingston, Beverley (1975). My Wife, My Daughter, and Poor Mary Ann: Women and work in Australia. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia). ISBN 0-17-001992-6.
  • — (1977). The World Moves Slowly: A documentary history of Australian women. Stanmore, Australia: Cassell Australia. ISBN 0-7269-4702-4.
  • — (1988). Oxford History of Australia, 1860–1900:Glad, confident morning. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195546113.
  • — (1994). Basket, Bag, and Trolley: A history of shopping in Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553510-3.
  • — (2006). A History of New South Wales. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83384-4.

References

  1. ↑ Kingston, Beverley (1988), The Oxford History of Australia, 1860–1900: Glad, confident morning, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, retrieved 30 September 2020
  2. ↑ "Kingston, Beverley Rhonda". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 Foley, Susan; Souerwine, Charles. "Kingston, Beverley Rhonda". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Kingston, Beverley (1968), Land Legislation and Administration in Queensland, 1859–1876, Monash University, retrieved 30 September 2020
  5. ↑ "Editorial Board". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  6. ↑ Kingston, Beverley (1979), "Anderson, Maybanke Susannah (1845–1927)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, vol. 7, retrieved 29 September 2020
  7. ↑ Kingston, Beverley (1986), "Mackellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea (1885–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, vol. 10, retrieved 29 September 2020
  8. ↑ Kingston, Beverley (2016), "Davis, Beatrice Deloitte (1909–1992)", Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 September 2020
  9. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Associate Professor Beverley Kingston FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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