Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2002

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2002

The `penal reformatory' that never was: proposals to establish Borstal training in New South Wales, 1900-1948.
December 1, 2002... Borstal training was established in England in 1900, as a new form of treatment within the penal system for young offenders aged sixteen to twenty-one. It aimed at the reformation of the offender through a programme of harsh military discipline...

Death and community in a colonial settlement.
December 1, 2002... Death had a role in the development of community sentiments in the new settlements of nineteenth century Australia. In 1870 the editor of the local paper in Colac, in Western Victoria wrote: 'In a small community such as ours it must needs be...

The indigenous Australians in Sydney and its environs as seen by French explorers, 1802-1831.
December 1, 2002... During the first thirty years of the nineteenth century the town of Sydney appeared to the French to have developed rapidly. Jacques Arago, draftsman with Louis de Freycinet's expedition, stayed here in November-December 1819 and had nothing...

Female customers of the Bank of New South Wales, 1817-1820.
December 1, 2002... This article draws upon largely unexplored primary data sources to examine how women engaged in the banking and commercial life of the colony of New South Wales between 8 April 1817 and 30 June 1820. The data examined are the first accounts...

Midwifery in the Lower Hunter River district 1940-1960: female entrepreneurial activities in a masculine work world.
December 1, 2002... This article considers the professional activities of midwives in the Lower Hunter region of New South Wales between 1940 and 1960: a time of change and improvement to the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth. Several midwives took...

Apology.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2002... In the December 2001 edition of the Journal, it was stated that the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 1, 1901-1929, edited by Ann Miller (Melbourne University Press, 2000) was overtime and over-budget. We have been...

Richard Reid, Gallipoli 1915, ABC Books 2002.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Richard Reid, Gallipoli 1915, ABC Books 2002; ISBN 07333 10729; 154 pp. illus., bibliography, hardcover, RRP $39.95. Alan Moorehead, whose work on Gallipoli is acclaimed as one of the great portrayals of the Gallipoli campaign, wrote: ...

Les Carlyon, Gallipoli.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney 2001,600 pp; ISBN 0 73291 089 7. Many accounts have been written of the role of the individual countries which committed forces to the Gallipoli campaign. The role of the...

Carolyn Rasmussen together with 46 specialist contributors, A Museum for the People. A history of Museum Victoria and its predecessors 1854-2000.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Carolyn Rasmussen together with 46 specialist contributors, A Museum for the People. A history of Museum Victoria and its predecessors 1854-2000, Scribe Publications, Carlton North 2001, ISBN 0 90801 169 5. The Museums Board of Victoria is...

Bruce Kaye (general editor), Anglicanism in Australia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Bruce Kaye (general editor), Anglicanism in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002; hardback, xxxiii & 408 pp; ISBN 0 52285 003 0. The thirteen essays in this book will give the general reader both a concise history of Anglicanism in...

Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002; ISBN 0 52284 989 X. At a time when the issues of race and racial identity are high on the agenda...

Pat Jalland, Australian Ways of Death: a Social and Cultural History 1840-1918.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Pat Jalland, Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002. Pat Jalland's Australian Ways of Death falls into a genre of death historiography that focuses upon the national...

A. Barcan, Radical Students: the Old Left at Sydney University.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... A. Barcan, Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University, Melbourne University Press, 2002; ISBN 0 52285 017 0. Most accounts of the Left, or the Right for that matter, tend to be autobiographical, biographical or limited in scope....

Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850, Melbourne University Press 2002; ISBN 0 52285 027 8; 270pp. It is not uncommon knowledge that...

Brian Jones, The Geddes Mystery.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Brian Jones, The Geddes Mystery, Spectrum Publications, Richmond, Victoria, 2001; ISBN 0 86786 375 7. Brian Jones has written a moving account of his grandfather, Goodwin Geddes, who came from a prominent Caboolture, Queensland family. The...

Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins, (eds), The Poems of Charles Harpur: an Analytical Finding List.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins, (eds), The Poems of Charles Harpur: An Analytical Finding List, Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, School of Language, Literature and Communications, University of New South Wales at the...

Graham Seal, Tell 'em I died game: the Legend of Ned Kelly.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Graham Seal, Tell 'em I died game: The Legend of Ned Kelly, Hyland House Publishing, Flemington, Victoria, 2002; ISBN 1 86447 047 X; 192 pp. The already large Kelly historiography has expanded with the publication of this book. Seal has...

Lynette Ramsay-Silver, Australia's Irish Rebellion: the Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Lynette Ramsay-Silver, Australia's Irish Rebellion: The Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804, Watermark Press, Sydney, 2002 (first printed 1983); ISBN 0 94928 461 0; 250 pp. Lynette Ramsay-Silver has updated and revised her 1983 book, and it has...

June Duncan Owen, Mixed Marriages: Interracial Marriages in Australia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... June Duncan Owen, Mixed Marriages: Interracial Marriages in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, 2002; ISBN 0 86840 581 7; 256 pp. It has been estimated that by 2030, seventy-five per cent of Australian families will have an...

Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoom (eds), Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoom (eds), Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge Press in association with Pluto Press, 2001; ISBN (Routledge): 0 415 93842 2; ISBN (Pluto): 1 86403 184 0; 296 pp. This is...

Frances Wheelhouse and Kathaleen S. Smithford, Dart: Scientist and Man of Grit.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Frances Wheelhouse and Kathaleen S. Smithford, Dart: Scientist and Man of Grit, Transpareon Press, Hornsby, 2001; ISBN: 0 90802 127 5; 361 pp. Professor Raymond A. Dart is perhaps best known for his discovery of Australopithecus africanus...

Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax, Routledge (England) and Pluto Press (Australia), 2001; ISBN: 1 86403 181 6; 244 pp. The onset of the twenty-first century has...

William Job, The Building of Brisbane, 1828-1940.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... William Job, The Building of Brisbane, 1828-1940, University of Queensland Press, 2002; ISBN 0 70223 266 1; 307 PP. William Job, the well-known Brisbane architect, has produced a guidebook to the visual museum that is to be found on...

Anthony Burke, In Fear of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Anthony Burke, In Fear of Security: Australia's Invasion Anxiety, Pluto Press, 2001; ISBN: 1 86403 126 3; 371 pp. The author, a lecturer in international politics at the University of Adelaide, argues that security has dominated and...

David Kent, and Norma Townsend, The Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... David Kent, and Norma Townsend, The Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia, pluto Press, 2002; ISBN: 1 86403 1727; 305 pp. The convicts transported on the Eleanor in February 1831 were not hardened...

Michael Hogan and David Clune, The People's Choice: Electoral Politics in New South Wales.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Michael Hogan and David Clune, The People's Choice: Electoral Politics in New South Wales, 3 volumes, University of Sydney and Parliament of New South Wales, 2001, ISBN: 0 90990 738 2. As has been pointed out several times, 2001 was not...