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Timothy Macnaught was amongst the first graduates of Macquarie University and completed his doctorate, on which this monograph is based, at ANU in 1975. After teaching history at the University of Hawaii for five years, he returned to Australia to serve in senior positions in church secondary schools in Victoria. In 1997 he joined the Office of National Assessments (ONA) in Canberra as senior analyst for the Oceania Branch to prepare classified reports for the Prime Minister and senior ministers. He retired from ONA in 2015. His book The Fijian colonial experience: a study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II was published by ANU Press in 1982.
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The series contains the research materials of Timothy Macnaught on the history of Fiji. It consists primarily of his handwritten research notes, which he made on index cards, especially during his fieldwork in Fiji in the early to mid-1970s. These include research for his PhD thesis (Australian National University, 1975), and a folder of work for a study of controversial Fijian leader Apolosi Nawai (1876–1946).
There are also reproductions of historic sources and a small number of drafts or other writings by other authors on subjects relevant to the history of Fiji.
A significant portion of the series is in the Fijian language.
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Current controlling entity: Australian National University
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Prepared by C. Ziegler on 13 November 2020. Updated David Romney Smith 2026.