Recently added articles from Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society:
Locating the new social history: transnational historiography and Australian local history.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... When I arrived as an enthusiastic, but very naive and literally just off the boat postgraduate student at Johns Hopkins University in September 1969 I found myself in an intellectual environment that I had not anticipated, for it was one strongly influenced by the new social history. My ...
Stories and things: the role of the local historical society, Campbelltown, Camden and the Oaks.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In 2007 David Everett, a local journalist, observed that the Camden Historical Society was a 'powerful' organisation with a 'proud history', and was 'amazed' that 120 local dignitaries had turned out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the society. (1) The position of the Camden ...
Mirage of the Inland Sea: the Bradfield Scheme.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... I believe the Southern poets' dream will not be realised Till the plains are irrigated and the land is humanised. Henry Lawson, Up the Country, 1892 As drought once again grips large parts of the country, suitably grand schemes are being resurrected in pursuit of the holy grail ...
Remaking the country: Australia's Rural reconstruction commission, 1943-46.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Rural Reconstruction Commission remains the Cinderella of Australia's post-war planning agencies. Appointed by J. B. Chifley, Treasurer and Minister for Post-War Reconstruction in John Curtin's Australian Labor Party Government, to advise on 'the reorganisation and rehabilitation of ...
Nursing in war and peace: the life of Matron Rose Creal (1865-1921).(Biography)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction Rose Creal's parents were born in Ireland and they belonged to the Catholic faith. They were poor, relatively uneducated and a record of their lives did not warrant inclusion in history. In contrast, Rose Creal was an Australian woman who held a senior position in a ...
Letters and diaries as useful tools in the construct of history: a case study of emigration from Frauenstein to Australia 1852-54.(Frauenstein, Germany)(Case study)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In constructing our history, scholars utilise whatever materials they can to form their views. Nevertheless, our construct of history, particularly from previous centuries when not all the populace was literate and the written word was largely the province of the aristocratic and ...
Geoffrey Bolton, Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Geoffrey Bolton, Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2008, xvi + 270 pages; ISBN 978 098029 640 2. The arrival of the brig Amity in King George Sound on the morning of Christmas Day, 1826 begins this new history ...
John Gascoigne, Captain Cook: voyager between worlds.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... John Gascoigne, Captain Cook: voyager between worlds, Hambledon Continuum, London, 2007, xvi + 288 pages; ISBN 978 1 84725 209 8. In my university lectures on European discoverers of Australia I mistakenly used to say that J. C. Beaglehole's exhaustive 1974 biography meant that ...
Robert Freestone and Bronwyn Hanna, Florence Tailor's Hats: designing, building and editing Sydney.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Robert Freestone and Bronwyn Hanna, Florence Tailor's Hats: designing, building and editing Sydney, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2007, 252 pages; ISBN 978 192083 136 3. Florence Taylor (nee Parsons, 1879-1969) was Australia's first professionally qualified, practising woman ...
Babette Smith, Australia's Birthstain: the startling legacy of the convict era.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Babette Smith, Australia's Birthstain: the startling legacy of the convict era, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2008, viii + 400 pages; ISBN 978 1 74114 604 2. A shame so strong it led to national amnesia? A concealed past that has caused Australians to doubt their national identity? ...
Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes (eds), Oral Histories and Public Memories.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes (eds), Oral Histories and Public Memories, Templeton University Press, Philadelphia, 2008, xvii + 302 pages; ISBN 978 1 59213 140 2. Multi-authored books challenge readers to grapple with several different mind-sets. This volume draws on 14 ...
Marian Sawer, Making Women Count: a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Marian Sawer, Making Women Count: a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2008, xvi + 317 pages; ISBN 978 086840 943 6. Historical scholarship into activism in the 1970s and '80s is beginning to emerge. For those who lived through ...
F.W. Nicholas and J.M. Nicholas, Charles Darwin in Australia.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... F.W. Nicholas and J.M. Nicholas, Charles Darwin in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2008, xx + 260 pages; ISBN 978 0 521 72867 6. This anniversary edition of a book first published in 1989 commemorates the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th ...
John Hirst, Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's first colony.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... John Hirst, Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's first colony, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2008, xi + 497 pages; ISBN 978 1 86395 207 1. This new publication reprints John Hirst's two classic books on early New South Wales, Convict Society and its Enemies: a history of early New ...
Malcolm Prentis, The Scots in Australia.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Malcolm Prentis, The Scots in Australia, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2008, xii + 334 pages; ISBN 978 1 921410 21 5. The author has a number of previous works on Australian Scots under his belt, but this is more than just a rehash of those prior studies. It ranges from the ...
Diane Kirkby, Voices from the Ships: Australia's seafarers and their union.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Diane Kirkby, Voices from the Ships: Australia's seafarers and their union, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2008, 432 pages; ISBN 978 086840 902 3. This history of the Seamen's Union of Australia covers the period since 1972, following on from the centenary history by Brian ...
Paul Ham, Vietnam: the Australian war.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Paul Ham, Vietnam: the Australian war, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2007, xviii + 814 pages; ISBN 978 0 7322 8237 0. This mammoth account of the Vietnam War by journalist Paul Ham tells the story of the 10-year conflict in which 520 Australian servicemen were killed. It draws on ...
Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington: a spurious author, the book trade and Botany Bay.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington: a spurious author, the book trade and Botany Bay, Hordern House, Sydney, 2008, viii + 327 pages; ISBN 978 187556 754 6. George Barrington was a celebrity pickpocket who was transported to Botany Bay in 1791. He became chief ...
'Language to save the innocent': Reverend L. Threlkeld's linguistic mission.(Critical essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The European colonisation of New South Wales resulted in the destruction of many Aboriginal languages. Of these, the so-called Awabakal language spoken by Aboriginal people who lived around the Lake Macquarie area, south of Newcastle--is singular in the degree to which it was studied and ...
Surveyor George Boyle White.(Biography)
Dec 01, 2008; ... George Boyle White sailed into Sydney Harbour, 7 January 1826, on board the Cawdrey. Once before he had sailed into this welcoming deep-water anchorage. That was in 1819 when a junior officer in the navy of the East India Company in which he served for seven years as navigator. (1) He had ...