Francis J West: 1927 - 2025 – Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Francis J West: 1927 - 2025 – Australian Academy of the Humanities

The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of our last remaining Academy Foundation Fellow, Emeritus Professor Francis West FAHA. An internationally renowned historian with a focus on medieval history of Norman rule in England, and colonial rule in Australia and the Pacific, Francis was elected to the Australian Humanities Research Council, the forerunner of the Academy, in 1966. In 1969 the Australian Ac…