Congratulations to Juliet Flesch on the publication of her new book Not Just Profs and Toffs: Families Living in the University of Melbourne Grounds (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018).
During its first hundred years the University of Melbourne grounds housed professors, gardeners, porters, messengers, dissecting room attendants and laboratory technicians, all with families, many of whom spent decades on campus. Not Just Profs and Toffs tells the story of some of those families, looking at their physical accommodation, social interactions and to what extent living in what was at time a gated community affected them.