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series and sequences. Give the scope and range of sources and subject matter, they offer a greater overview of these historical events than any single participant could have had at the time. The Frost
Archive has vastly expanded the historical record readily available to historians, allowing a more sophisticated base from which to make analyses. It is to be made available on a website of the
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For over 35 years Frost collected primary documents relating to the decision to colonise
Australia, the mounting of the First Fleet and the early settlement of Sydney. Totalling about 2500 documents, these records were drawn from locations scattered around the globe in order to reconstitute original
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Director, Institute for Advanced Study (2006–2008). He held a personal chair in history at La Trobe until his retirement in 2008, after which he became professor emeritus and continued his scholarship.
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over the second half of the eighteenth century. He is best known for books in which he challenged common historical stereotypes and misconceptions concerning the
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