Stuart Macintyre was voted one of Australia's most influential historians.
22 Facts About Stuart Macintyre
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The son of Forbes Macintyre and Alison Stevens Macintyre, Stuart Macintyre was born in Melbourne on 21 April 1947.
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Stuart Macintyre's schooling took place at Scotch College and, later, at the University of Melbourne, where he was a resident of Ormond College.
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Stuart Macintyre held a Master of Arts degree from Monash University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, for which he was awarded the Blackwood Prize.
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Stuart Macintyre thereafter considered himself to be a democratic socialist.
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Stuart Macintyre had a long academic career both within Australia and internationally.
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From 1977 to 1978, Stuart Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge.
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Stuart Macintyre returned to Australia in 1979 as a lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, and the following year returned to Melbourne, where he lectured at the University of Melbourne until 1981.
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Stuart Macintyre was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1999.
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Stuart Macintyre was a visiting scholar or fellow at Griffith University, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the University of Western Australia, the Australian National University and the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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From 1987 to 1996, Stuart Macintyre was a member of the council of the National Library of Australia and from 1989 to 1998, a member of the council of the State Library of Victoria.
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Stuart Macintyre served as chairperson of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of the Australian Research Council in 2003.
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In 2005, Stuart Macintyre was outspoken about the actions of the then federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson, who personally vetoed several ARC grants which had already been approved by the ARC's peer review process.
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Stuart Macintyre finished a second term as the dean of arts in mid-2006.
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Stuart Macintyre served as president of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
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Stuart Macintyre was a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Stuart Macintyre published numerous books, including a history of Marxism in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, based on his doctoral thesis, a history of the labour movement in Australia, and Reds, the first volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia; the second volume, The Party, was published posthumously in 2022.
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Stuart Macintyre's critics, such as Gregory Melleuish, responded to the book by declaring that Stuart Macintyre was a partisan history warrior himself, and that "its primary arguments are derived from the pro-Communist polemics of the Cold War".
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Keith Windschuttle said that Stuart Macintyre attempted to "caricature the history debate" but failed to explain what he meant.
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Windschuttle has accused Stuart Macintyre of harbouring "a deep distaste" for Australia's British heritage and has criticised Stuart Macintyre's involvement in the academic attack against Geoffrey Blainey during the so-called "Blainey affair".
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Stuart Macintyre received many awards, including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Australian Studies in 1986, for his work in authoring the fourth volume of the Oxford History of Australia, and the Redmond Barry Award from the Australian Library and Information Association in 1997, in recognition of his work with the NLA and SLV.
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On 26 January 2011, Stuart Macintyre was named an Officer of the Order of Australia.