Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley

Prof. Peter Stanley (born 1956) is an Australian historian, from February 2013 Research Professor at the University of New South Wales, Canberra at the Australian Defence Academy, a member of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, part of UNSW's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2017-13. Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987. He has written several books about Australia and the Great War since 2005 (Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, men of Mont St Quentin, Bad Characters and Digger Smith and Australia's Great War, with others in train).