Dr. Peter Londey

Biography

Peter Londey holds degrees in Ancient History from the University of New England and Monash University. He completed his PhD on the Delphic Amphictyony in the fourth century BC. He has held positions in Classics at the University of Queensland and the Australian National University (ANU) from 1991 to 2007, where he also worked as a historian at the Australian War Memorial. His responsibilities there included editing publications, managing conferences, and overseeing various exhibitions. Notably, he acted as the head of the Military History Section for extended periods. He researched international peacekeeping and curated a major peacekeeping exhibition for the Memorial in 1993 and a significant traveling exhibition in 2001. Londey authored 'People's Wars: The History of Australian Peacekeeping' (Allen & Unwin, 2004). As a senior member of the team, he contributed to writing 'Australia's Official History of Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Action Post-Cold War,' having written over half of the volume, 'Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions 1947–2006' (CUP, 2020). Currently, he is involved in research about Australian artist George Gittoes and rejoined the Classics Program at ANU in 2008. His research interests span ancient and modern history, focusing particularly on Australian international peacekeeping, regional historical memory regarding Central Greece, warfare and society in ancient Greece, and military commemoration in Australia.

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