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Professor Alistair Thomson is the final Director's Fellow to visit the Museum for 2007-08.
He took up a Chair in History in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University in September 2007. Al was previously Professor of Oral History and Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex, where he founded the University's Centre for Life History Research and served as a Trustee of the Mass-Observation Archive. Al's research over the last 25 years has included life history studies of migration, war, postwar women's lives and lifelong education.
His books include: Anzac Memories: Living With the Legend (Oxford University Press, 1994), Through the Joy of Learning: Diary of a Thousand Adult Learners (NIACE, 1996), The Oral History Reader (Routledge, 1998 and 2006) and Ten Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants (Manchester University Press, 2005).
Between 1990 and 2007 Al served as co-editor of the British journal Oral History, and he is President of the International Oral History Association (2006-08) and Director of the Monash Institute for Public History. Al's current research about postwar women's lives in Australia – based upon oral history interviews and personal archives of letters and photos – will be published by Manchester University Press in 2009 as Moving Stories, Women's Lives: British Women and the Postwar Australian Dream.
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