Dr John Anthony Leckey has a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Letters (Hons) and a PhD in history at the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Professional Historians Association, is a Fellow in the Department of History, and represented the University of Melbourne at cricket. His book Low, degraded broots? Industry and entrepreneurialism in Melbourne’s Little Lon 1860-1950 was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2005.

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