Thomas Richardson

Dr Thomas Richardson is a historian at UNSW Canberra. After completing his doctorate in 2014 he worked as a researcher on the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping (2015), and as a researcher on the Official History of Australian Operations in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan (2016–2018). His first book, Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966–1972, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017; his second, Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa 1899–1902, will be published (also by CUP) in 2025.