Graeme Davison

Australia's greatest social-democratic thinker. A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social, economic and urban issues, Hugh Stretton was an Australian original. His Political Sciences was described by The Times Literary Supplement as 'a work of near genius'. His groundbreaking Ideas for Australian Cities became the manifesto for a generation awakening to the distinctive features of our...

I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism. In City Dreamers, Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime's work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers...

British Australia - a search for family. A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders, he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and from the Great War to his own...