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Peter McPhee

About

Peter McPhee is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, specialising in the social history of France since 1780.

McPhee has published widely on the history of modern France, most recently A Social History of France 1789-1914 (London & New York, 2004) and Living the French Revolution 1789-1799 (London & New York, 2006).

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of Social Sciences, and was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to education in 2003.

Professor McPhee was Provost of the University of Melbourne in 2007-09 and is currently writing a biography of Maximilien Robespierre.

Past Events

Reading the City: Historians on Melbourne

Sam Pang, Robyn Annear, Peter McPhee, Jane Rhodes, LM Robinson

Past event

24 Mar

Celebrating 175 Years of Victoria

Warrnambool

Sean Dooley, Peter McPhee, David Astle, George McEncroe, Jon Vertigan, Jacinta Ermacora

Past event

26 Oct
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