Maurice French is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching), Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland. He has researched and written many books, articles, and papers on various aspects of Queensland history, especially the Darling Downs. He has also supervised and examined masters and doctoral theses.
Skills and Services Offered:
Read, review, proofread, and edit manuscripts
Professional Interests:
Regional History including Darling Downs.
Australian History.
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA, D.Litt
Publications and experience:
Explorations in Frontier History: Darling Downs 1840-1860,
Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1997
Travellers in a Landscape: Visitors' Impressions of the Darling
Downs 1827-1954, Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1994.
Pubs, Ploughs and 'Peculiar People': Towns, Farms and School
Life (A History of the Darling Downs Frontier Volume 3), Toowoomba:
USQ Press, 1992.
A Pastoral Romance: The Tribulation and Triumph of Squatterdom
(A History of the Darling Downs Volume 2), Toowoomba: UCSQ
Press, 1990.
Conflict on the Condamine: Aborigines and the European Invasion
(A History of the Darling Downs Volume 1), Toowoomba: DDIP,
1989 (reprinted 1991)
From The Frontier: A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920
(with Duncan Waterson) St Lucia: University of Queensland Press,
1987.
The Darling Downs: A Pictorial History 1850-1950 (with
Duncan Waterson) Toowoomba: DDIP, 1982, pp. 280. (fourth impression
1992)
A Century of Homemaking: A History of the Toowoomba Permanent
Building Society 1875-1975, Toowoomba: DDIP, 1979.
Plus numerous articles for professional journal, chapters and
entries in the ADB.
Address: Professor Maurice French
Faculty of Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Darling Heights QLD 4350
Telephone: 07 4631 1093
Facsimile: 07 4631 1100
Email: french@usq.edu.au
Updated 4 June 2006
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