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.

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