Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society back issues from June 2001:
Foreword.
Jun 01, 2001; ... TIME has no divisions to mark its passage yet mankind has an innate urge to celebrate with fanfare the beginning of the seasons, the years and the centuries. And historians especially delight in this artifice; hence the timing of this opportunity taken to reflect before we meet the ...
The Royal Australian Historical Society and the writing of Australian history.
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE Royal Australian Historical Society was founded at a time when the writing of Australian history was beginning to move in new directions. Until late in the nineteenth century the subject had been in the hands of annalists, journalists, politicians and public figures, none of whom had ...
Principal Office-Bearers of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... <Pre> Presidents Andrew Houison1901 Norman Selfe 1902 William Henry Hazell Yarrington 1903 Arthur Ashworth Aspinall 1904 Joseph Henry ...
The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part I `Students of a like hobby': the Society 1900-1954(*).
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE inaugural meeting of the Australian Historical Society was held at the Queen's Hall, Pitt Street, on 15 March 1901. There had been heavy rain during the day and early evening. Attendance was `miserable' despite advertisement in the press. Reluctant to abandon the official launching of ...
The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part II Growth and Change: the Society 1955-1985(*).
Jun 01, 2001; ... ALL human institutions go through periods of tension and stress and our Society is certainly no exception. As discussed in Part I of this paper, the early 1950s was one such period of turmoil; antagonisms then aroused carried over into Dr Currey's presidency (1954-1959). Council meetings ...
The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part III Closing the first hundred years: the Society from the 1980s to 2001.
Jun 01, 2001; ... As a learned society with a `Royal' epithet, the Royal Australian Historical Society found itself in congenial surroundings when it opened the doors of its second `History House' in November 1971. Home to Government House, the New South Wales Parliament, the legal and medical professions ...
The motto of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE Society's motto veteris non inscius aevi was proposed in 1901 by William Yarrington. The Reverend William Henry Hazell Yarrington was a councillor of the Society from 1901 to 1918, President in 1903 and 1910 and a Fellow from 1920 until his death three years later. The words are taken ...
Fellows, 1901-2001.
Jun 01, 2001 ... <Pre> Fellows, 1901-2001 Elected Name Death1916 Bertie, Charles Henry 1952 1916 Burfitt, Charles Trimby 1927 1916 Cramp, Karl Reginald 1956 1916 Walker, Francis (Frank) ...
Biographical notes on the Fellows of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001; ... IN March 1916 Percy Marks, a Sydney solicitor and Councillor of the Society, wrote to the Honorary Secretary, Karl Cramp, proposing the concept of Fellowship of the (then) AHS and enclosing draft rules. The revised roles, adopted in August 1916, provided for the bestowing of Fellowships on ...
Finding and keeping `a home of its own': the Society and its premises over the twentieth century.
Jun 01, 2001; ... FOR the first forty years of its existence, the Royal Australian Historical Society lived in rented premises. Its tenancies were of varying duration, though by far the longest was in the 1912 head office of the New South Wales Department of Education. Like a traditional married couple, ...
The Women's Auxiliary and its successors.
Jun 01, 2001; ... IN 1911 the Australian Historical Society changed its rules to allow women to be admitted to Council, one motivation perhaps being to `broaden its franchise', as early Annual Reports repeatedly referred to the need to increase membership. The first two female councillors of the Society ...
Affiliated Societies of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001; ... ALTHOUGH the Royal Australian Historical Society was a Sydney-based organisation, the early Councils were aware that there were potential members all over the State and, in fact, all over Australia. Realistically, these far flung historians were rarely able to attend the Sydney lectures ...
The Affiliated Societies of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
Jun 01, 2001 ... THIS list includes all societies which have affiliated with the Royal Australian Historical Society since 1935, the year when the first two affiliates joined. The societies in plain text with a listed location are currently affiliated members of the RAHS. The societies in italics are ...
The Excursions Story.
Jun 01, 2001; ... IN the first years of its existence, the RAHS concerned itself with what it should do. The first Annual Report of the then Australian Historical Society mentioned monthly meetings, at each of which one or two papers were read: `Bennelong Point and Fort Macquarie', `The Old Tank Stream', ...
Honorary Fellows of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... ARTICLE of Association twenty-two of the RAHS states that: `The Council may appoint as Honorary Fellows persons who have made, in the Council's opinion, a valuable contribution to the Society or to the knowledge of Australian history. Not more than one Honorary Fellow shall be appointed in ...
Honorary Members of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... ARTICLE of Association nine of the RAHS allows for the Council `to submit for election at an ordinary general meeting the name of any person who has rendered valuable service in the furtherance of the objects of the Society.' No more than two honorary members may be elected in any one ...
The Library of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001; ... `The objects of the society shall be as follows: a) the collection and preservation for the use of members of the Society, of all books, newspapers, records, coins, stamps, prints, relics and [cognate] matters having reference to Australian history, especially as regards New South ...
The Archives of the RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001; ... ARCHIVES are essentially the documentary, records and other items created or received in the course of an organisation's day-to-day activities--minutes of meetings, invoices, receipts, accounting statements, ledgers, inwards and outwards correspondence, and the like. It may be ...
Benefactions, Bequests and Gifts.
Jun 01, 2001; ... THE RAHS has always been in part dependent on the response of its members and members of the general community for financial support. Those who have given particularly generously during their lifetime have been recognized by election as Benefactors of the Society. The minimum ...
RAHS School History and Debating Prizes.
Jun 01, 2001; ... FOR over eighty years the RAHS has sponsored prizes, funded by donations, for school children. As early as 1916 it had sought `the presentation of a substantial annual prize for secondary school students for Australian history studies.' In 1918 the Hon. John F. Lane Mullins, ...
Councillors, 1901-2001.
Jun 01, 2001 ... <Pre> Councillor, 1901-2001 Stack, Edward 1901-1904 Selfe, Norman 1901-1910 Bladen, Frank Murcott 1901-1901 Phillips, Frederick 1901-1901 Walker, Francis (Frank) ...
Dr Andrew Houison 15 March 1901(*).
Jun 01, 2001 ... IN the newspapers of to-day allusions are constantly being made to Forgotten Sydney. Year by year old land marks are being removed to make room for modern improvements, and in each year the hand of death is laid upon some of the older inhabitants. Of those who helped to make its history ...
Dr Charles Currey 25 February 1958(*).
Jun 01, 2001 ... I SPEAK to YOU this evening, ladies and gentlemen, as one who has been a member of this Society for over thirty years, and as one who, during the past four years, has become very familiar with, and has had some part in, its several activities. With this background, I put to myself and to ...
Associate Professor Kenneth Cable 6 May 1980(*).
Jun 01, 2001 ... IN the eighty years of the Society's history, presidents have given addresses at the Annual General Meeting on many and diverse topics. I can still remember one occasion when the incumbent president delivered a learned and very lengthy lecture on the necessity of celebrating Australia Day ...
Dr Rosemary Annable 29 April 1995(*).
Jun 01, 2001 ... A Passion for History LIKE many societies founded in support of a specific, well defined, special interest, the aims of this Society, as set down in our Memorandum of Association, have stood the test of time and are as fresh and relevant today as they were when first drafted ...
Appendix I: JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY--ARTICLES ON THE SOCIETY'S HISTORY.
Jun 01, 2001 ... 1917 Cramp, K. R., `The Australian Historical Society--The Story of its Foundation'. JRAHS, IV (1), 1-14. 1926 Walker, F., `The Early Days of the Royal Australian Historical Society'. JRAHS, XII (4), 223-226. 1941 Conigrave, C ....
Appendix II: PUBLICATIONS OF THE RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... Monographs Annable, Rosemary, 1788 is just around the corner: an historical guide to Sydney. State Bank & RAHS, 1988. Bartley, Nehemiah, Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences 1849-1894 (with introduction by Colin Roderick). John Ferguson & RAHS, 1978. Facsimile ...
Appendix III: MEMBERSHIP FIGURES OF THE RAHS 1901 TO 2000.
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE total of number of members as published in the Annual Reports show a generally increasing membership until the late 1980s since when the numbers have levelled out. The published figures are not always accurate, especially as unfinancial members have often not been deleted for several ...
Appendix IV: COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES ERECTED BY THE RAHS.
Jun 01, 2001 ... FOR much of its history the RAHS has taken the lead in identifying and marking sites of historic interest, mostly in New South Wales. As early as August 1915 a deputation from the Society met with the Chief Secretary, the Hon. George Black, with a request that the Government consider ...