Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 1 1998

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 1 1998

To the lighthouse! The South Head Road and place-making in early New South Wales(1).
December 1, 1998... When David Dickenson Mann published his Present Picture of New South Wales in 1811, his readers were informed of a curious addition to the landscape of the penal colony: There is a carriage-road made from Sydney to the extreme point [of...

Trespass, common law, government regulations, and fences in colonial New South Wales, 1788-1828.
December 1, 1998... Introduction: separating stock and crops in the colony Fences are ubiquitous features in the agricultural landscapes of Australia. They divide farms into paddocks to allow better management, and they divide properties to separate stock and...

The Moreton Bay ministry of the Reverend Johann Handt: a reappraisal.
December 1, 1998... During the 1830s two missionary enterprises were commenced under the auspices of the evangelically inspired Church Missionary Society of the Church of England (CMS), in New South Wales. The first and larger of the two was at Wellington Valley,...

`A provision for themselves and their families?' Women depositors of the Savings Bank of New South Wales, 1846-1871.
December 1, 1998... It has been suggested that the middle decades of the nineteenth century in New South Wales represented a period of significant change in the ways in which people attempted to secure themselves and their families against risk.(1) Those changes...

Professor Harvey Sutton: National hygienist as eugenicist and educator.
December 1, 1998... As a zealous and dedicated national hygienist for all of his professional life, Professor Harvey Sutton (1882-1963) was in a position to influence government policy and public opinion, particularly in regard to state schooling and preventive...

Labor's golden age and the changing forms of workers' representation in Australia.
December 1, 1998... The undisputed zenith of Labor reformism in Australia was reached half a century ago, with the Curtin and Chifley governments of 1941-49. The second world war was prosecuted successfully, a welfare state was constructed, and State control over...

The Wentworths: Father and Son.
December 1, 1998... John Ritchie, The Wentworths: Father and Son, Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press for Melbourne University Press, 1997; ISBN 05228475X; xiv + 311 pp; RRP $39.95, hardback with index. As a colony and as a state, New South Wales has a long...

Finding Families. The Guide to the National Archives of Australia for Genealogists.
December 1, 1998... Margaret Chambers, Finding Families. The Guide to the National Archives of Australia for Genealogists, Canberra and Sydney, National Archives of Australia in association with Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd, 1998; ISBN 0 86806 648 6; x + 330 pp, with...

Short Notices.
December 1, 1998... Peter Beilharz, Imaging the Antipodes. Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith, Oakleigh; Cambridge University Press, 1997; ISBN 0 521 58355 1; xv + 216 pp; RRP $39.95 hardback. Peter Beilharz, reader in Sociology at La...