Peter Stanley

Peter Alan Stanley (born 28 October 1956) is an Australian historian and research professor at the University of New South Wales in the former Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society. (The centre, established by Prof. Jeff Grey c. 2011, was euthanised in 2017.) He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2007–13. Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and sometime exhibition curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987. He has written eight books about Australia and the Great War since 2005, and was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.

Early life and education Stanley was born in Liverpool, England on 28 October 1956 to Albert Edward Stanley and his wife Marjorie Patricia. The family emigrated to Australia in 1966 and settled in the South Australian city of Whyalla, where Stanley was educated at the local high school. In 1975, he relocated to Canberra to attend the Australian National University (ANU). After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977, Stanley gained a Graduate Diploma of Education from Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra),