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The Robert Menzies Collection at the University of Melbourne

Stone, Caitlin ; Berryman, Jim (University of Melbourne Library, 2013-06)

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894–1978) is best remembered as the founder of the Liberal Party and Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, a role he occupied in two terms from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966. Menzies was also an alumnus of the University of Melbourne and, from 1967 to 1972, its chancellor. His long association with the university is reflected in many of its collections. This article focuses on just one of these, his personal library. Accumulated over his lifetime, the Robert Menzies Collection casts light on Menzies’ public and private worlds, his varied interests and tastes, and his vast political and social networks.