Alan Powell (historian)

Alan Walter Powell was a historian and author of Northern Territory history.

Career

Alan Powell was the Dean of the Arts Faculty at the Northern Territory University, now Darwin University, and later Emeritus Professor of History and Political Science at CDU.
He was the editor of the Journal of Northern Territory History. He also edited publications for the Historical Society of the Northern Territory.
In 2013 he was made a fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.
He was a charter member of the Rotary Club of Darwin Sunrise. Powell lived in Darwin, and was married with two daughters and one son.

1977 – Patrician Democrat: The Political Life of Charles Cowper, 1843–1870
1978 – John Lort Stokes and the crew of the Beagle
1982 – Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory
1986 – John Stokes and the Men of the Beagle: Discoverers of Port Darwin
1988 – The Shadow's Edge: Australia's Northern War
1995 – War by Stealth: Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942–1945
2003 – The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War 1942–1946
2010 – Northern Voyages: Australia's Monsoon Coast in Maritime History
2015 – Desert Country: A History of Newhaven
2016 – Blood and Sand: Alyawarra and Cattlemen in the Sandover River Country
2016 – World's End: British Military Outposts in the Ring Fence Around Australia 1842–1849
2018 – ''Forgotten Country: A Short History of Central Australia''