![]() I was well-trained as a historian at the University of Melbourne, although I did not fully appreciate this until later in life, but what hooked me was writing my history honours essay in my fourth year. ![]() But both David and I tried at first to avoid our fate, he with mathematics and I with the violin. My father, Brian Fitzpatrick, wrote books on Australian economic and labour history my mother Dorothy taught history and my younger brother, David Fitzpatrick, would become a distinguished historian (of twentieth-century Ireland) in his turn. ![]() Essay by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), University of Sydney, and Professor Emerita, University of Chicagoīecoming a historian was perhaps over-determined in my family. ![]()
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