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While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as ‘Australia’s most distinguished historian’, he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian – and few elsewhere – can match his ‘span’, to use one of his watchwords. Hancock was a major historian in four or five fields, who himself made history by going on a mission to Uganda for the British government in 1954 to mediate the future of Buganda after its ruler had been exiled. He was also, from a room in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the editor of a vast historical project: the writing of a series of accounts of British mobilisation on the home front during the Second World War. In addition, Hancock was a founder of the Australian National University, while his Australia (1930) remains one of the classic accounts of this country. A Three-Cornered Life is a superbly written and thorough biography of one of the finest twentieth century historians.

A biography of a 20th-century Australian historian and an outstanding scholar in the humanities and social science fields, this thorough account highlights the accomplishments of W. K. Hancock. Compelling and informative, this chronicle features the scope of Hancock's work across three continents, including his mission to Uganda on behalf of the British government in 1954, his tracking of British mobilizations during World War II, and his founding of the Australian National University. Illuminating an extraordinary life and career, this examination celebrates the author of Australia.  

Review(s) of: A three-cornered life: The Historian W K Hancock, by Jim Davidson (UNSW Press, 2010, 624 pages).

Cotton reviews A Three Cornered Life: the historian W.K. Hancock by Jim Davidson.

Review(s) of: A three-cornered life: The historian W.K. Hancock, by Jim Davidson, UNSW Press, Kensington, 2010. pp. xv + 608. $59.95 cloth.

Review(s) of: A three-cornered life: The historian W. K. Hancock, by Jim Davidson, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2010, 624 pp, RRP. $59.95.