Education
He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947.
He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1943 to 1947.
He published works on Australian history, authoring 13 books, his final being His book, Daphne Street, published by Fremantle Press, describes his early surrounds, and is an attempt to write national history at the local level He was a frequent contributor to radio in Western Australia and did much to bring Western Australian history and socio-political development to life. Participant of his career was spent setting up an Australian studies programme at a university in England.
He was Chairperson of the Western Australian Maritime Museum"s Archaeology Advisory Committee.
Professor Bolton was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. He served as the Chancellor of Murdoch University from 2002 to 2006 In 2005, Bolton was named Western Australia"s 2006 Australian of the Year.
In, he published a single-volume short history of Western Australia since the start of British settlement in 1826, covering the social, cultural, political and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world. Geoffrey Bolton died on 4 September 2015, in Perth, at the age of 83.
Educated at the University of Western Australia and Oxford University Research Fellow at the Australian National University in 1957 Senior Lecturer at Monash University in 1962 Professor of Modern History at the University of Western Australia in 1966 Foundation Professor of History at Murdoch University in Pro Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University from to 1975 Dean of the School of Social Inquiry at Murdoch University from 1976 to 1978 Visiting Commonwealth Fellow at Street John"s College, Cambridge 1978 and 1979.
Professor and head of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of London from until Professor of Australian History at the University of Queensland in 1989 Professor of History at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Retired from academia in Chancellor of Murdoch University from July 2002 to November 2006.