Lives in Cricket No 12 - Ric Charlesworth

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anthony J. (Tony) Barker was born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, in 1938 and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Sheffield Uni- versity. After emigrating to Australia in 1963, he has lived in Sydney, Melbourne and especially Perth ever since, except for doctoral re- search in London in the early 1970s. He is currently a Senior Honor- ary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where he lectured in history from 1973 until retirement in 2004. His eight previ- ous books include three on the history of slavery and anti-slavery in the British Empire and United States; the official histories of cricket and Australian Rules football in Western Australia: The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story (1998) and Behind the Play: A His- tory of Football in Western Australia Since 1868 (2004); and Cricket’s Wartime Sanctuary: The First-Class Flight to Bradford , published by ACS in 2009. After more than a decade writing about sport, he has recently begun research on the social history of the United States’ three intelligence and communications bases in Australia.