Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2003

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2003

Dr Ken Cable AM, 1929-2003: a memoir.(Obituary)
December 1, 2003... I first met Ken Cable in 1950 at the very beginning of his academic career. Born on 16 April 1929 and educated at Sydney Boys' High School he enrolled for an Arts degree at the University of Sydney, completing his course at the end of 1949. A...

Vision and pragmatism in the educational and suffrage work of 'two advanced Englishwomen' in New South Wales.
December 1, 2003... In 1936 Miles Franklin recorded the educational work of her two friends, Harriet Newcomb and Margaret Hodge, in her prize winning novel All That Swagger: One of [William de Lacey's] daughters, Sophie, was distinguishing herself....

The emergence of South Australian Anzac culture 1915-1925.
December 1, 2003... The paper by John A. Moses 'The struggle for Anzac Day 1916-1930 and the role of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee,' inspired me to attempt to equal his contribution with this article on the emergence of South Australian Anzac...

Claiming the dead: great war memorials and their communities.
December 1, 2003... War memorials are the creations of communities. In his seminal work, Sacred Places, Ken Inglis suggests that war memorials can help us to understand 'what people cared about and stood for', and the significance of the Great War in Australian...

Scientific reaction to evidence for the yahoo or 'Australian Ape', 1882-1912.
December 1, 2003... Throughout much of the nineteenth century reports of something variously called the yahoo, hairy man or Australian ape--usually thought of as a remnant of some as yet undiscovered species of Australian animal--regularly emerged from the...

British convicts, Polynesian women, and imperial designs.(Research note)
December 1, 2003... I am certain your Lordship will think that to send for women from the Islands, in our present situation, would answer no other purpose than that of bringing them to pine away in misery. Governor Phillip to Lord Sydney Secretary of...

Michael Tyquin, Little by Little.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Army History Unit, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2003, 684 pages; ISBN 1 87643 915 7. The author, a graduate of Monash University and the University of Melbourne, and a reserve officer of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (RAAMC),...

Michael Duffy, Man of Honour: John Macarthur--Duellist, Rebel, Founding Father.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2003, xii + 372 pages; ISBN 0 73291 178 8. Michael Duffy is a publisher and political commentator who has delved into the primary and secondary archives on John Macarthur with the intention of revising...

Richard Aitken and Michael Looker (editors), The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Oxford University Press, 2002, 697 pages; ISBN 0 19553 644 4. This Oxford Companion is a long awaited reference book. As one who has had a life-long interest in nature, especially in growing plants and gardening for my own pleasure, I have...

Erik Ecklund, Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Melbourne University Press, 2003; ISBN 0 52285 026 X. Three images on the dust jacket capture the mood and principal themes of the book. Workers ponder the construction of a new steelworks. Workers lay the concrete whiteway road along...

John F. Williams, German Anzacs and the First World War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... UNSW Press, 2003, xviii + 318 pages; ISBN 0 86840 508 6. It is pleasing to note that this book has been published with the support of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation and that the grants given in 2001 continue to have a...

Ruth Kerr, John Moffat of Irvinebank.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... J.D. & R.S. Kerr, Brisbane, 2000, 296 pages, ISBN 0959507272. After a quick scan of Ruth Kerr's John Moffat of Irvinebank I wondered why she wrote it. Moffat appeared to be yet another so-called Christian businessman who rationalised his...

George Franki and Clyde Slatyer, Mad Harry: Australia's Most Decorated Soldier.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... 276 pages, illus., bibliography, soft cover; ISBN 0 73181 188 7. Down through the ages it has been fascinating and, at times, fashionable to pen the biographies of great commanders... this is proper. Seldom, however,...

Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Macleay Press, Sydney, 2002, 472 pages; ISBN 1 876492 05 8. This first volume of a projected trilogy to prepare a new revisionist history of Australian frontier conflict and the race relations between Aboriginal peoples and white settlers,...

Peter Reynolds, Lesley Muir, Joy Hughes, John Horbury Hunt: Radical Architect 1838-1904.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, 176pp; ISBN 0 94975 397 1. This handsome book was published in 2002 to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney celebrating the life and work of architect John Horbury Hunt....

Tim Flannery (ed.), The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, Melbourne.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... The Text Publishing Company, 2002, xlvi + 200 pages; ISBN 1 87700 820 6. Tim Flannery has edited and introduced this brief biography of one of the most intriguing characters in colonial Australia. William Buckley was a very tall and gentle...

Penny Russell (ed.), This Errant Lady. Jane Franlin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... National Library of Australia, 2002, ix + 275 pages; ISBN 0 64210 749 1. This is a remarkable story about a most unusual woman who can be summed up in one word--feisty. In many ways Lady Jane Franklin was quintessentially Victorian yet...

Pamela Statham-Drew, James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... University of Western Australia Press, 2003, xiv + 652 pages; ISBN 1 87626 894 8. This handsomely presented work claims, with justification, to fill a biographical gap in Western Australian history. Stirling, who was Governor of Western...

Sailing with Flinders: the Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath, Corkwood Press, nd, xii + 86 pages; ISBN 1 87624 713 4. This little book is a reprint, as the title says, of one of Flinders' crewmen's journals. Full of fascinating detail, as well as a sense...

Ian Morrison, Maureen Perkins and Tracey Caulfield, Australian Almanacs 1806-1930: a Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Quiddlers Press, Hawthorn, Victoria, 2003, xiii + 166 pages; ISBN 0 95819 490 4 (hb), 0 646 41867 X (pb). This useful and well-composed book is a comprehensive listing of Australian almanacs. These handy compilations of facts once...

Geoffrey Hawker, Politicians All: The Candidates for the Australian Commonwealth Election 1901: a Collective Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Australian Institute of Political Science, 2002, x + 134 pages; ISBN 0 90933 191 X. This small yet ambitious work traces each candidate for the first Australian federal election. Over 313 candidates have been researched, as far as existing...