Frost's arguments radically challenge those expressed by prominent historians Manning Clark and Robert Hughes.
Among the staff Crawford employed and encouraged were Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, Greg Dening, John La Nauze, John Poynter, Margaret Kiddle and Kathleen Fitzpatrick - several of these also studied under Crawford.
Sydney's reputation has suffered at the hands of the nationalist school of Australian historians, such as Manning Clark.
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He attracted many acclaimed in their fields to work as masters at the school, including the historian Manning Clark, the musician Sir William McKie, and the artist Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack.
He made many portraits of Australian and other celebrities, including Geoffrey Blainey, Judy Cassab, Manning Clark, Arthur Boyd, Dame Joan Sutherland, Yehudi Menuhin and Luciano Pavarotti.