Peter Stanley is a prominent Australian military historian, who specialises in the military-social experience of war in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Stanley has worked as an historian and later head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial (1980–2007), head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia (2007–13) and, since 2013, as Research Professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society.
[1] Beginning in 1977—and as at 2023—Stanley has written (or co-written) 29 books and edited eight others, published four novels and co-authored a booklet, and contributed at least 49 chapters in books and anthologies, 59 journal articles, seven encyclopaedia entries and numerous papers.
In 2011, his book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force (2010) was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.
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