Associate Professor Sean Scalmer speaks about his book, On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain and Australia for which he won the NSW Premiers History Awards General History Prize in 2018.

Sean Scalmer is an Associate Professor with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne is the author and editor of several books on the history of social movements including Dissent Events, Activist Wisdom (with Sarah Maddison), The Little History of Australian Unionism, Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest.

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