Marnie Hughes-Warrington
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Marnie T. E. Hughes-Warrington is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney. Marnie is by training a historiographer, a person who is interested in the questions 'What is history?', and 'What is history for?'.
She obtained a Bachelor of Education with First-Class Honours from the University of Tasmania in 1991. She then was invited as a Rhodes scholar to read her Doctor of Philosophy thesis on R. G. Collingwood at Merton College, Oxford University in 1995.
She has written two books, one describing the views of fifty different historians (Fifty Key Thinkers on History) and one on R. G. Collingwood's views of history and history education ('How Good an Historian Shall I Be?': R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education). She has also edited The Palgrave Guide to World Histories. She has just released a book on historical films (History Goes to the Movies) for Routledge. She has taught in units on social philosophy, early modern Europe, historiography and historical films in Oxford, Macquarie, Tasmania, and the US.
