Frances Flanagan

Frances Flanagan was born in Perth, Western Australia. She obtained bachelor degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Western Australia. After several years as a lawyer, she won a Commonwealth scholarship to read for a DPhil in history at the University of Oxford. She has been a senior scholar at Hertford College Oxford, a Marshall Fellow at the London Institute of Historical Research, and a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. She currently works at the University of Sydney, and lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters.