Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2004

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2004

Ideology and identity: George Towns and professional sculling.(Biography)
December 1, 2004... Professional sculling was one of the few organised sports that enchanted the New South Wales public in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its popularity partly was due to the establishment of international competition, the...

Family matters: bastards, orphans and baptisms--New South Wales, 1810-1825 (1).
December 1, 2004... This article draws on evidence taken from a number of documents relating to the period 1810-1825. (2) The conclusions suggest a need to revise a number of assumptions about relationships between male and female convicts during this period....

Mrs Paterson's keepsakes: the provenance of some significant colonial documents and paintings.
December 1, 2004... The bicentenary of the 1804 Battle of Vinegar Hill was extensively commemorated during 2004. As a result, a painting of the event became the year's most frequently reproduced depiction of colonial New South Wales, appearing in the Sydney...

Maritime quarantine versus commerce: the role of the health officer of Port Jackson in the nineteenth century.
December 1, 2004... One of the problems that perplexed the colonial government of New South Wales throughout the nineteenth century in its administration of Sydney s port-of-entry, Port Jackson, was the need to encourage the growth of shipping while at the same...

'Full of passive resistance'? The employment of female state children in Queensland, 1865-1911.
December 1, 2004... In 1887, Charles Horrocks, Queensland's Inspector of Orphanages, publicly discussed a matter that had been vexing him for several years. In his annual report to the Legislative Assembly, he complained that female children sent out to service...

'... thousands of tiny fingers moving' the beginning of the Junior Red Cross movement in New South Wales, 1914-1925 (1).
December 1, 2004... Labour historians have discussed the wartime voluntary work of women with particular reference to gender roles, and the emotional and social reasons for volunteering. Bruce Scates explored the nature and extent of Australian women's unpaid work...

Farmers' parliaments and country conferences: attempts by New South Wales Labor in the 1920s and 1930s to communicate with the countryside.
December 1, 2004... Labor in New South Wales broke through to office in 1910 by adding gains in Sydney suburban electorates to its established holdings in wheat and wool areas, mining areas and inner Sydney. Even so, twenty-nine of the forty-six members of that...

Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland, Car Wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland, Car Wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2004, xix+308 pages; ISBN 1 74114 207 5. Once the threat of invasion receded during the second world war,...

John Cameron (ed.), Changing Places: re-imagining Australia.(Changing Places: re-imagining Australia)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... John Cameron (ed.), Changing Places: re-imagining Australia, Longueville Books, Sydney, 2003, 323 pages (including index), paperback; ISBN 1 92068 106 X. The purpose of this book, as stated on the rear cover, is to 'examine fundamental...

Berres Hoddle Colville, Robert Hoddle: Pioneer Surveyor, 1794-1881.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Berres Hoddle Colville, Robert Hoddle: Pioneer Surveyor, 1794-1881, Research Publications Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2004; ISBN 0 94960 045 8. Berres Hoddle Colville's biographical tribute to her great-grandfather Robert Hoddle is an impressive...

Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2003, 274 pages; ISBN 0 52285 091 X. The History Wars is a provocative account of how history has served to divide the nation. Macintyre and Clark show...

Ron Hill and Brian Madden, Kingsgrove: the First Two Hundred Years.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Ron Hill and Brian Madden, Kingsgrove: the First Two Hundred Years, Canterbury and District Historical Society, Campsie, 2004; ISBN: 0 95793 913 2. It is a real pleasure for me to launch this history of Kingsgrove. There are multiple...

Sally Warhaft (ed.), Well May We Say ... The Speeches that Made Australia.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sally Warhaft (ed.), Well May We Say... The Speeches that Made Australia, Black Inc. Melbourne, 2004; ISBN 1 86395 277 2. Australians do not have a reputation for oratory. Australia has lacked a Churchill or a Lincoln, and this is to the...

Dictionary of the Australian Senate, with an introduction by the Clerk of the Senate: Volume 2, 1929-1962.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... 1929-1962, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004; ISBN 0 52285 090 1(v 2). This invaluable series continues in its both modest and expansive role of developing a record of the Federal Senate from 1901. This volume takes its start from...

Marian Sawer, The Ethical State?: Social Liberalism in Australia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2003; ISBN 0 52285 082 0. Australia was one of the first modern liberal states. 'Liberalism' in Australia can be defined very broadly as that line of thought which stretches from E. G. Whitlam and H. V....

Tanja Luckins, The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Curtin University Press, Fremantle, 2004; ISBN 1 92073 174 1. This sensitive and emotive book examines the 'other victims' of war--the hundreds of thousands of grieving relatives whose family members--sons, nephews, grandsons, daughters,...

Carolly Erickson, the Girl from Botany Bay: the true story of the convict Mary Broad and her extraordinary escape.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Macmillan, Sydney, 2004; ISBN 1 40503 588 9. The story of Mary Broad is one of the more fascinating tales to come out of Australian colonial history. Mary Broad was transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet. She was a highway robber,...

Roslyn Poignant, Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... University of New South Wales Press, 2004. ISBN 0868407437 It is remarkable what entertains people (and still does). This book traces the lives of those natives who were in essence enslaved and sent off to circuses. Displayed as...

Sandy Toussaint (ed.), Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004, ISBN 0 52285 074 X. This collection of essays from a range of legal, historical and political academics and practitioners is worth reading for any interested in this difficult, yet ultimately...

John Slater, Through Artists' Eyes: Australian Suburbs and their cities, 1919-1945.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Migunyah Press, Carlton, 2004; ISBN 0 52285 092 8. To the horror of certain prominent commentators (and the delight of others), the suburbs are the definitive Australian urban landscape. In the brief foreword, Australian art critic Bernard...

Keiran Kelly, Tanami: On foot across Australia's desert heart.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Pan MacMillan, Sydney, 2004; ISBN, 0 73291 188 5. This is an interesting account of a trip taken by two men across the Tanami desert. As they readily admit, they had certain advantages that the two explorers who first achieved...

Sheila McCreanor(ed.), Mary and Flora: Correspondence between Mary MacKillop and her mother, Flora McDonald MacKillop.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, North Sydney, 2004; ISBN 0 95799 762 0. Mary MacKillop has historical interest, even without counting her likely investiture as Australia's first full saint. Her work in building the Sisters, as...

P. D. Gardner, A Gippsland Union: the Victorian Coal Miners Association, 1893-1915.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Ngarak Press, 2003, ISBN 1 87525 433 1. Any claims that labour history is on the decline must be checked against the continual publication of books such as this one. Union history utilises many facets of day-to-day life--work practices, the...

2004 RAHS Certificates of Achievement.(Royal Australian Historical Society)
December 1, 2004... Nate Zusman of Australian Jewish Historical Society Inc. for his dedication to the management and records of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Inc. Berna Wright of Canowindra & District Historical Society Inc. for over 30 years of...

Society celebrates members, music & renovation.
December 1, 2004... The completion of the building works at the front of History House was a reason to celebrate. Also, the 1820s square piano had been restored, and there were some fellowships and the inaugural medallion to award. This meant a special evening was...

From the presidential desk.
December 1, 2004... Since the last issue of History, the Presidential pigeonhole has been awash with invitations. I have responded positively to a surprisingly large number of these and they show something of the diversity of the Royal's connections. An...

Vale--Peter Chadwick.(Obituary)
December 1, 2004... On 16 September 2004 the history community suffered a great loss with the death of Peter Chadwick, Historical Officer at the Department of Lands [formerly Land Title Office]. His untimely death from cancer has affected us all and we mourn the...

Executive action.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... As you'll see from this edition, Councillors and staff of the RAHS have been extremely busy. In September, I flew to Perth as the NSW delegate for the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. The Federation is a Federal peak body...

Christmas party.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The RAHS Christmas Party is coming up again on the 9 December 2004. This is a chance to meet old friends, make new ones, and enjoy yourself in the marvelous surroundings of History House. Drop in any time from 5:00 pm till about 8:00 pm....

Off-site backups at history house.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Do you need a cheap and convenient storage facility for your invaluable computer backups? The Royal Australian Historical Society is storing backups on CD-ROM for its members. Annual Backups will be stored on CD-ROM supplied by the Society....

Annual General Meeting.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Notice is hereby given that the RAHS Annual General Meeting will be held Tuesday 3 May 2005 at 7:00 pm at History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Any financial member is entitled to attend and vote. A member may appoint a proxy to attend...

Call for nominations.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... By order of the Council, members are invited to nominate candidates for election to the Council at the AGM. Nominations must be signed by two financial members and the nominee. Completed forms must reach the Society's Returning Officer at...

Ian Jack receives fellowship.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... At the State Local History Conference, Ian Jack received a well-deserved fellowship for his service to Australian History and the Royal Australian Historical Society. The Senior Vice President, Anne-Maree Whitaker presented the fellowship,...

Trocadero Hall--Newtown.
December 1, 2004... In this Year of the Built Environment it is gratifying to know that the Sydney suburb of Newtown still has many late 19th century public buildings intact. One, however, is no longer in use, but its prominence on north King Street, its ornate...

Space and place: local history in Australia: key-note address to RAHS Conference, 23 October 2004.
December 1, 2004... There used to be a silly rhyme which declared: Geography is about maps, But Biography is about chaps. The second line soon got changed to read: But History is about chaps. The use of the expression 'chaps', of...

Keeping history: 2004 RAHS local history conference.
December 1, 2004... This year the annual conference of the RAHS was held on 23 & 24 October at the Nirimba Room, Blacktown City Council, Blacktown. Cllr Barbara Gapps, representing the Mayor of Blacktown, and Aunty Mavis Halvorsen, a Dharug Elder, welcomed...

Dandaloo.
December 1, 2004... On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is hot, There stands the town of Dandaloo A township where life's total sum Is sleep, diversified with rum. ...

State roundup--Mari Metzke with book reviews by Mary Kinsman.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The latest book on the suburb of Kingsgrove is co-authored by one of the newest Fellows of the RAHS. Kingsgrove: The first two hundred years by Brian Madden and Ron Hill was published by Canterbury and District Historical Society with the...

Library acquisitions.
December 1, 2004... Bartrop, Paul R. Bolt from the blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak crisis. Rushcutters Bay: Halstead Press, 2002. 1875684964. 327.9041 BAR Bland District Historical Society. Monumental inscriptions & burial records West Wyalong...

'Stray' archives.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Archival estrays are records which were created or received by NSW government organisations (including Departments, local councils or public hospitals) but which have 'strayed' from official custody and are now in private hands. Estrays may...