Name John Tully | Role Historian | |
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Books The Devil’s Milk: A Social Hi, Inspector Holt: The Bridge, A Short History of Cambodia, Starpol, France on the Mekong | ||
John A. Tully is an Australian historian and novelist.
John A. Tully is an Honorary Professor in the College of Arts at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of nine published books and a number of articles, book reviews and short stories. He is currently working on a people's history of the American city of Akron, tentatively entitled Struggle City USA: A People's History of Akron, Ohio. Tully lives in the inner western Melbourne suburb of Yarraville. Tully is a socialist and was an active trade unionist during the many years he worked as a rigger in construction and heavy industry before gaining his PhD and becoming an academic. He was born on Tyneside in northern England in 1947 and is descended from English and Irish forebears.