Jim Hagan: A Memoir (Tributes TO JIM Hagan) (In Memoriam‪)‬

Jim Hagan died suddenly on 20 October 2009, three days short of his eightieth birthday. He was one of the last of a group of left-wing Australian historians whose world view was formed by the Depression of the 1930s. Its impact influenced his intellectual development, his focus as an historian and his wider political and social activities. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In some ways, Jim was shielded from the worst of the Depression. He was an only child; his father was a skilled tradesman, a printer on the Daily Telegraph and Jim had opportunities to develop his talents within the public school system at Bondi Primary and later Sydney Boys High School. Other members of the family, scratching out a living on small holdings near Campbelltown, were hard hit by the Depression and when Jim's father lost his job for a time they moved back to the farm.