Ken Inglis

Kenneth Stanley Inglis,AO,FASSA(7 October 1929 – 1 December 2017) was an Australian historian.

Ken Inglis AO,FASSA
Born	(1929-10-07)7 October 1929 Ivanhoe, Victoria
Died	1 December 2017(2017-12-01)(aged 88) Carlton, Victoria
Awards	Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia(1975) Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literacy Award (1998) Sir Ernest Scott Prize (1999) The AgeBook of the Year(1999) The AgeNon-fiction Award(1999) New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize(1999) Officer of the Order of Australia(2003)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Melbourne(BA [Hons], MA) University of Oxford(DPhil)
Academic work
Institutions	Australian National University University of Papua New Guinea University of Adelaide
Doctoral students	Frank Bongiorno
Notable students	Bill Gammage Hank Nelson
Main interests	Australian history Military history, memory and memorialisation
Notable works	Sacred Places(1998)

Early life and education

Inglis was born in theMelbournesuburb ofIvanhoe,on 7 October 1929, the son of Stan and Rene Inglis. He was educated at Tyler Street Public School, Northcote Boys' High School andMelbourne High School,before going to study at theUniversity of Melbourne.Inglis participated in the Student Christian Movement and amateur dramatics during his studies, and worked as a tutor atOrmond College.After graduating with aBachelor of Artswith first class honours in History and English, he read for aMaster of Artsat Melbourne. Inglis's thesis, which was a history of theRoyal Melbourne Hospital,was later revised and published as his first book,Hospital and Community(Melbourne University Press,1958).

Career

Inglis completed hisMaster's degreeat theUniversity of Melbourneand hisdoctorateat theUniversity of Oxford.In 1956 he was appointed as a lecturer to theUniversity of Adelaide.He subsequently became Professor of History at theAustralian National University,and theUniversity of Papua New Guinea.

Inglis wrote extensively on theAnzactradition, theStuart Case,war memorials,and theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation.In 2008 he joined the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne, as an adjunct professor.

Personal life

Inglis died, aged 88, on 1 December 2017 of pancreatic cancer.

His first wife, Judy Betharis, was an anthropologist who nurtured his interest in social, cultural and emotional communities. His younger sister was the medical anthropologist, Shirley Lindenbaum. After Judy's death in a car accident, Ken married Amirah Turner, a historian. The former Communist and one time Christian socialist,Amirah Inglisand Ken shared half a lifetime of scholarly collaboration and together had six children.

Awards

• 1999:The Age Book of the Yearand Non-fiction Award forSacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape.

The book also won the:

• NSW Premier's Literary Awards History Prize 1999
• FAW Literature Award 1998
• Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
• Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999.

Bibliography

• Inglis, K. S. (1958).Hospital and community: a history of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
• — (1961).The Stuart case.Kingsgrove, New South Wales: Halstead Press.
  • — (2002).The Stuart case(2nd ed.). Melbourne: Black Inc.
• — (1963).Churches and the working classes in Victorian England.London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• — (March 1965). "The Anzac tradition".Meanjin Quarterly.24(1): 25–44.
• — (1970).C. E. W. Bean, Australian historian.St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.
• — (1974).The Australian colonists: an exploration of social history, 1788–1870.Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
  • — (1993).The Australian colonists: an exploration of social history, 1788–1870(2nd ed.). Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
• — (1983).This is the ABC: the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932–1983.Assisted by Jan Brazier. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
  • — (2006).This is the ABC: the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932–1983(2nd ed.). Melbourne: Black Inc.
• — (1985).The rehearsal: Australians at war in the Sudan, 1885.Adelaide: Rigby.
• —, ed. (1989).Nation: the life of an independent journal of opinion, 1958–1972.Assisted by Jan Brazier. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
• — (1998). John Lack (ed.).Anzac remembered: selected writings by K. S. Inglis.Parkville, Victoria: Department of History, University of Melbourne.
• — (1998).Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape.Assisted by Jan Brazier. Carlton, Victoria: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press.
  • — (2001).Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape.Assisted by Jan Brazier (2nd ed.). Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
  • — (2005).Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape.Assisted by Jan Brazier (New ed.). Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
  • — (2008).Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape.Assisted by Jan Brazier (3rd ed.). Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
• — (1999). Craig Wilcox (ed.).Observing Australia, 1959–1999.Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
• — (2006).Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983–2006.Melbourne: Black Inc.
• Inglis, Ken; Seumas Spark &Jay Winter(2018).Dunera lives [volume 1]: a visual history.With Carol Bunyan. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
• —; — & — (2020).Dunera lives [volume 2]: profiles.With Carol Bunyan. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.

Further reading

• Browne, Peter; Spark, Seumas, eds. (March 2020).'I Wonder': The life and work of Ken Inglis(First ed.). Clayton, VIC.ISBN978-1-925835-71-7.OCLC1125944406.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)