Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2001

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2001

Andrew Fisher: `a proud, honest man of Scotland'.
December 1, 2001... `A young man who saw visions and dreamed dreams and who served God faithfully all the days of his life.' So wrote Andrew Fisher's only daughter Margaret (Peggy) presenting in a moving description of her father a warm, richly textured picture of...

Foodways on two colonial whaling stations: archaeological and historical evidence for diet in nineteenth-century Tasmania.
December 1, 2001... Food is of central importance to culture. Its nutritional properties sustain life while the acquisition, preparation and consumption of food represent significant amounts of time and economic activity. Symbolically, the rituals and meanings...

The lamentable death of Lady Mary FitzRoy.
December 1, 2001... `Here's to the arm which can hold `em when gone, / Still to a gallop inclined, sir' (1) `The lamentable death of Lady Mary FitzRoy was... an irreparable misfortune to the colony' (2) In Australian historical surveys the life and work...

Muloobinbah (Newcastle) an Aboriginal industrial presence: past and present.
December 1, 2001... This study was undertaken for Ngoroe-Kah Indigenous Performance Aboriginal Corporation in conjunction with the `Ribbons of Steel' celebration, which marked the closure of the BHP Steel Works in Newcastle in late 1999. The story is a celebration...

The Costa Rica Packet affair: colonial entanglements and tests of empire in pre-federation new South Wales.
December 1, 2001... On 1 November 1891 the Bums Philp & Co. whaling barque, Costa Rica Packet, three months out from Sydney, sailed into the old spice port of Ternate in what was then the Moluccas, Netherlands East Indies. As soon as the ship had been tied up the...

Edmund Barton. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Geoffrey Bolton, Edmund Barton, St Leonards, 2000, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1 865 08409 3, RRP $39.95. In the weeks and months preceding celebrations for the Centenary of Federation, Australians were teased by a national advertising campaign...

Beryl Beaurepaire. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Michael McKernan, Beryl Beaurepaire, University of Queensland Press, 1999; ISBN 0 7022 3110X; Paperback, xv + 316. Hardback. RRP $39.95. In writing this biography, Michael McKernan had the advantages of having been given unrestricted...

Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Anthony J. Brown, Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin, Adelaide, 2000, Crawford House; ISBN 1 86333 192 1. Hardback, 34 colour and 24 b&w illustrations, 13 charts, pp. 512, notes, appendices, index; RRP $49.95 (including GST). This...

Joseph Foveaux. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Anne-Maree Whitaker, Joseph Foveaux. Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales, Kensington, 2000, UNSW Press; ISBN 0 86840 555 8; viii + 257 pp; RRP $32.95. In that other country called the past there are no reliable maps. Clio's troops...

Auchmuty. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Kenneth R. Dutton, Auchmuty. The life of James Johnston Auchmuty, Mount Nebo, 2000, Boombana Publications; ISBN 1 876542055;477 pp; RRP $49.50. The cover of this extremely well produced, attractive book in many ways epitomises its subject....

Remarkable Occurrences. The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901--2001. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Peter Cochrane (ed.), Remarkable Occurrences. The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901--2001, Canberra, 2001, National Library of Australia; ISBN 0 642 10730 0; ix + 283 pp; b & w and colour illustrated, with index, RRP $59.95 +...

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. (Works of Reference).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Ann Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, volume 1, 1901--1929 Carlton South, 2000, Melbourne University Press; xv + 478 pp.; ISBN 0 522 84921 0. This work has been inspired and brought to fruition by Harry...

The Irish in Australia. 1788 to the present. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Patrick O'Farrell, The Irish in Australia. 1788 to the present. Sydney, 2000, University of New South Wales Press; ISBN 086840635X; 363 pp; RRP $35 paperback. A book with a distinguished record--it has been awarded the NSW Premier's Award...

Big John Forrest 1847-1918. A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Frank Crowley, Big John Forrest 1847-1918. A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia, Nedlands, 2000, University of Western Australia Press; ix + 540 pp; ISBN 1876268 44 1; RRP $49.50, hardback. This biography is an amalgam of two...

No Ordinary Act. Essays on Federation and the Constitution by J. A. La Nauze. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Helen Irving and Stuart Macintyre, No Ordinary Act. Essays on Federation and the Constitution by J. A. La Nauze, South Carlton, 2001, Melbourne University Press; ISBN 0522 84806 0; vii + 202 pp; RRP $35, paperback. John La Nauze...

Joseph Lyons. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Kate White, Joseph Lyons, Melbourne, 2000, 204 pp; RRP $21.95. This is a reproduction of a political biography, first published by Penguin in 1987 as A Political Love Story. Lyons was prime minister in 1932--39 and died in office. His widow...

James Scullin. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... Hale and Iremonger first published this biography in 1982 as Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government. Warren Denning (1906--75) was an experienced and long serving political journalist (1927--71), who began the first ABC news...

John Watson. (Book Notes).(Review)
December 1, 2001... A1 Grassby and Sylvia Ordonez, John Watson, Melbourne, 2001. This biography of Australia' s third prime minister and our first Labor prime minister, was initially published in 1999 by Pluto Press. Though not the first biography of John...