Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society back issues from June 2007:
Bungling a courthouse: a story of convict workplace reform.
Jun 01, 2007; ... The collection of essays in the volume Convict Workers is now almost twenty years old. (1) Some of its assertions have become truisms. Convicts did bring work experience with them, and were put to work in Australia, often on jobs familiar to them. But how efficient were they? In his essay, ...
Fascism within the pre World War II Italian population of Queensland: a study of community processes and interaction.
Jun 01, 2007; ... 'If I had made an application to belong to some Fascio it was for business reasons, because the Consul had promised to give some consideration to the Italian community'. Dario Burla during the appeal against his internment, 13 February 1941. (1) At its height Mussolini's Italian ...
An analytical approach to the events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804.
Jun 01, 2007; ... Risdon Cove was the first English settlement in Tasmania, established in September 1803 by Lieutenant John Bowen, RN. In February 1804 David Collins relocated his own settlement from Port Phillip. He chose to settle nearly eight kilometres down the Derwent from Bowen, and on the other ...
Frederick Campbell of Yarralumla: a forgotten pioneer pastoralist.(Biography)
Jun 01, 2007; ... The learning years For thirty years before the Queanbeyan area was nominated as the site for Australia's capital city, Frederick Campbell was a driving force in the district's development. But who was Frederick Campbell? Frederick Campbell was born at Duntroon on 26 ...
Brian W. Richardson, Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Brian W. Richardson, Longitude and Empire: how Captain Cook's voyages changed the world, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2005, xvi + 240 pages; ISBN 0 7748 11 900. The year 2006 saw much activity pursuing the theme 'Australia on the Map', inspired by the 400th ...
Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales.(A History of Victoria)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, 299 pages; ISBN 13 978 0 521 54168 8. Geoffrey Blainey, A History of Victoria, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, 304 pages; ISBN 13 978 0 52168 987 8. Beverley ...
Ken R. Manley, From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': A History of Australian Baptists.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Ken R. Manley, From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': a history of Australian Baptists, Paternoster, Milton Keynes UK, 2006, 856 pages; ISBN 1 84227 405 8 (2 volumes) This monumental and extremely detailed two-volume work contains 771 pages of text, an extensive 39-page long ...
Peter J. Tyler, Humble and Obedient Servants: The Administration of New South Wales, Volume 2, 1901-1960.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Peter J. Tyler, Humble and Obedient Servants: the administration of New South Wales, Volume 2, 1901-1960, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006, xvi + 267 pages; ISBN 0 86840 824 7. In the preceding volume in this series, Politics, Patronage and Public Works, Hilary ...
Michael Roe, An Imperial Disaster: The Wreck of the George the Third.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Michael Roe, An Imperial Disaster: the wreck of the George the Third, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2006, viii + 294 pages; ISBN 0 908258 32 9. This book is a retirement project of one of Australia's most distinguished historians, Michael Roe, who was professor of history at the ...
Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced: Florence Nightingale's envoy to Australia, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2006; ISBN 1-920898-39-5. Nursing history often tends towards hagiography, but this splendid biography avoids that pitfall. Lucy Osburn arrived in Sydney in ...
Peter C. Rickwood and David J. West (eds), Blackheath: Today from Yesterday, the History of a Town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Peter C. Rickwood and David J. West (eds), Blackheath: today from yesterday: the history of a town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, WriteLight Pty Ltd for the Rotary Club of Blackheath Inc, Blackheath, 2005, 640 pages; ISBN 0 9581934 5 2. Blackheath: today from ...
Colin L. Macdonald, The Jamie York Letters Revisited.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Colin L. Macdonald, The Jamie York Letters Revisited, Friends of Ferguson Memorial Library, Strawberry Hills NSW, 2003, 193 pages; ISBN 0 949197 88 2 Between January 1963 and December 1965, seventy-three notable letters signed by 'Jamie York' were published in the New South ...
Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper, High Lean Country: Land, People and Memory in New England.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper, High Lean Country: land, people and memory in New England, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2006, xii + 416 pages; ISBN 978 1 74175 086 7. Judith Wright's 1940 poem 'South of my Days' ends with the lines 'the high lean country ...
Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (eds), 'No Fit Place for Women'?: Women in NSW Politics, 1856-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (eds), 'No Fit Place for Women'?: women in NSW politics, 1856-2006, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, xii + 289 pages; ISBN 0 522 86840 964 2. Rather than a biographical dictionary, as the title may imply, this book is a collection of ten essays on ...
M. M. H. Thompson, The Seeds of Democracy: Early Elections in Colonial NSW.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... M. M. H. Thompson, The Seeds of Democracy: early elections in colonial NSW, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, 302 pages; ISBN 978 186287 631 6. This work covers the elections from the first in 1843 for the Legislative Council up to the first fully elected Parliament in 1856. It ...
Anne Twomey, The Chameleon Crown: The Queen and Her Australian Governors.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Anne Twomey, The Chameleon Crown: the Queen and her Australian governors, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, xv + 304 pages; ISBN 978 186287 629 3. The subtitle of this book is misleading as its scope is well beyond the reign of the current sovereign. It focuses on constitutional ...
Terry Irving, The Southern Tree of Liberty: The Democratic Movement in NSW Before 1856.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Terry Irving, The Southern Tree of Liberty: the democratic movement in NSW before 1856, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, x + 290 pages; ISBN 978 186287 617 0. Distinguished labour historian Terry Irving takes us back to the Sydney of the 1840s as he surveys the struggles of ...
Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in NSW 1910-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: minor parties and independents in NSW 1910-2006, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, ix + 238 pages; ISBN 978 1 86287 623 1. The ALP and coalition Liberals and Nationals have dominated but not monopolised NSW politics since the election of three ...
Tom Sheridan, Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront under Menzies.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Tom Sheridan, Australia's Own Cold War: the waterfront under Menzies, MUP, Melbourne, 2006, xiv + 391 pages; ISBN 978 0 522 85385 8. Vital for Australia's economy, the waterfront was a political football long before the dramatic dispute of 1998. The election of Robert Menzies in ...