Leigh Edmonds

Leigh Edmonds is an Australian historian. He qualified with a doctorate from Murdoch University, after having been a public servant.^[1]

He has written books about Western Australia and national Australian topics.^[2] He now lives and works in Victoria (Australia).^[3]

Publications

• Edmonds, Leigh (1996), The vital link : a history of Main Roads Western Australia 1926-1996, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876268-06-0
• Edmonds, Leigh (2000), Cathedrals of power : a short history of the power-generating infrastructure in Western Australia 1912-1999, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876268-42-8
• Edmonds, Leigh; Australian Taxation Office (2010), 100 Working for all Australians 1910-2010 : a brief history of the Australian Taxation Office (1st ed.), Australian Taxation Office, ISBN 978-0-9808067-2-4

Notes

1. Edmonds, Leigh; Murdoch University. School of Social Sciences (1991), Western air ways making aviation in Western Australia 1919-1941, retrieved 2 March 2012
2. In his notes on contributors in Rossiter, Richard; Bolton, G. C. (Geoffrey Curgenven), 1931-; Ryan, Jan (2003), Farewell Cinderella : creating arts and identity in Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876268-82-4 - the range of writing is described as he has written about roads, railways, airways and radio - the latter relating to the chapter in the quoted book with Brian Shoesmith Making culture out of the air - Radio and Television pp.203-240 - see also Wireless waves as cultural glue tethering the bush to the city in Western Australia between the wars' in Media, Politics and Identity, volume 15, Studies in Western Australian History, Nedlands, Department of history, uwa, 1994, pp.92-109
3. Edmonds, Leigh; Vincent, Graeme (2005), Living by water : a history of Barwon Water and its predecessors, Barwon Water, ISBN 978-0-9594919-5-1