‘Let’s Look Again at the Causes of War and Peace’
Location: General Meeting to be held at the Melbourne Club.
Date: April 4, 2025
Time: 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Dress: Lounge suit
Acceptances close March 28, 2025
“On this occasion the committee has determined for this meeting that the Society will run this event as a promotion and accordingly the dinner fees will be the same Rate for Members and their spouses or partners. Guests will be charged at the Guest rate.”
Geoffrey Blainey learned to read and spell at impressive “state schools” in Leongatha and Newtown (Geelong) before continuing his formal education at Ballarat High, Wesley College, and the University of Melbourne. He has made a career of writing history. Geoffrey began to research his first book in 1951 and it was published three years later by Melbourne University Press under the title of “The Peaks of Lyell”. He went on to become Professor of Economic History and then of History at the University of Melbourne, and he also held a chair at Harvard.
In New York in 1988 – along with the celebrated economist Professor JKL Galbraith – he was awarded the Encyclopedia Britannica’s gold medal for ‘excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind.’ He is a Companion of the Order of Australia, and The National Trust lists Geoffrey Blainey as a ‘National Living Treasure’. His better- known works include “The Tyranny of Distance”, “The Rush That Never Ended”, and such international best-sellers as “A Short History of the World” and “A Short History of the 20th Century”. Geoffrey has just revised and updated “The Causes of War” which awaits republication with international anticipation. He has written more than forty books and is said to have published more words in the form of books than any other Australian academic. His wife Ann, an award-winning biographer, also writes books.