Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2006

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2006

Rae Else-Mitchell CMG LLB DLitt FRAHS FIPAA FRAIPA FAIUS FAIV (Hon) FPIA (Hon) FIMM (Hon) 1914-2006: an obituary.(Obituary)
December 1, 2006... Rae Else-Mitchell, judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, patron the arts and education, and holder of a host of important positions, was perhaps destined to be part of Australian history. His mother, Pearl, was the daughter of David...

Not a rum rebellion but a military insurrection.(New South Wales)
December 1, 2006... On 26 January 1808, exactly twenty years after the founding of the colony of New South Wales, an insurrection by the New South Wales Corps (NSWC) led to the arrest of the governor, Captain William Bligh RN, and replacement of the colonial...

Explosion on board the steamer native: the limits of early marine engineering in colonial New South Wales.
December 1, 2006... I The high-pressure steam engine revolutionised the maritime transport industry in New South Wales. More powerful than the earlier condensing engine, it was sufficiently compact to fit inside a vessel's hull and made an ideal source of...

Ellen Julia Gould: a civilian nurse and founder of the military nursing tradition in Australia (1860-1941).(Biography)
December 1, 2006... Important policy initiatives relating to the working conditions of female nurses in Australia were progressed, in part, by the involvement of civilian nurses in military campaigns. The importance of a formalised nurse training program for...

The book that never was: the biography of Sir Robert Gibson.(Biography)
December 1, 2006... Introduction Before he set off to London to attend the Imperial Trade Conference in September 1930 the Labor Prime Minister, James Scullin, had a somewhat extraordinary meeting with Sir Robert Gibson, the then Chairman of the Commonwealth...

A fading present, a lost future past? Researching the heritage of modern shopping arcades.
December 1, 2006... Introduction Although not quite as early as those in the United Kingdom (Burlington Arcade, London, 1810), (1) shopping arcades are nothing new in Australia, as the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney (1898), (2) and Australia's oldest...

John Hirst, Sense and Nonsense in Australian History.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... John Hirst, Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, Black Inc Agenda, Melbourne, 2005, vii + 325 pages; ISBN 097507699X. This challenging and provocative set of essays comprises a collection of John Hirst's writings, extending from the...

Frank Bolt, The Founding of Hobart: a diary recounting the events on the Derwent 1803-1804.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Frank Bolt, The Founding of Hobart: a diary recounting the events on the Derwent 1803-1804, Peregrine, Hobart, 2004, 320 pages; ISBN 0 9757166 0 3. The foundation of Hobart was a significant historical event, marking not just the...

Muriel Porter, The New Puritans: the rise of fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.(The Chosen Ones: The Politics of Salvation in the Anglican Church)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Muriel Porter, The New Puritans: the rise of fundamentalism in the Anglican Church, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006, vii + 184 pages; ISBN 0 522 85184 3. Chris McGillion, The Chosen Ones: the politics of salvation in the...

Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: the passage to Australia.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: the passage to Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, 365 pages; ISBN 0868408980. Robin Haines has worked in immigration studies at Flinders University in South Australia for many years and is...

Pat Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: war, medicine and the funeral business.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Pat Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: war, medicine and the funeral business, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, viii + 409 pages; ISBN 0 876840 905 7. Professor Pat Jalland of the Australian National University is well...

Don Aitkin, What Was It All For? the reshaping of Australia.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Don Aitkin, What Was It All For? the reshaping of Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2005, 276 pages; ISBN 1 74114 667 4. When historian and political scientist Don Aitkin attended a reunion with his Armidale High School Leaving...

Kim Torney, Babes in the Bush: the making of an Australian image.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Kim Torney, Babes in the Bush: the making of an Australian image, Curtin University Books / Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2005, xv + 241 pages; ISBN 1 920731 35 0. Melbourne historian Kim Torney reveals why the image of the...

Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is History Fiction?(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is History Fiction?, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, viii + 296 pages; ISBN 0868407348. According to the authors, on one side of this question stand those who argue that history must be dependent upon written text. A...

Alan Gill, Likely Lads and Lasses: youth migration to Australia, 1911-1983.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Alan Gill, Likely Lads and Lasses: youth migration to Australia, 1911-1983, Big Brother Movement, Sydney, 2005, xii + 379 pages; ISBN 0646453270. Alan Gill's most recent book, Likely Lads and Lasses, is one of three books he has written on...

Susan Marsden assisted by Cynthia Hunter, The Royal. A Castle Grand, a Purpose Noble. A History of The Royal Newcastle Hospital 1817-2005.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Susan Marsden assisted by Cynthia Hunter, The Royal. A Castle Grand, a Purpose Noble. A History of The Royal Newcastle Hospital 1817-2005, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Newcastle, 2005, vi + 250 pages; ISBN 0 646 44897 8. ...

Ian M Parsonson, Vets at War: a history of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Ian M Parsonson, Vets at War: a history of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946, Australian Military History Publications, Canberra, 2005, 224 pages; ISBN 1 876439 94 7. There is no Veterinary Corps in today's Australian Army but,...

Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country: a history of the Albury-Wodonga national growth centre project 1973-2003.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country: a history of the Albury-Wodonga national growth centre project 1973-2003, UNSW Press, 2005, 387 pages; ISBN 0868409448. The Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation commissioned this history to...

Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson, Australia Imagined: views from the British periodical press 1800-1900.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson, Australia Imagined: views from the British periodical press 1800-1900, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2005, xi + 243 pages; ISBN 1 920694 45 5. This is a selection of sixty-three pieces...

Edward Parry, In the Service of the Company: Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company, December 1829-June 1832, vol.1.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Edward Parry, In the Service of the Company: letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company, volume 1: December 1829-June 1832, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2005, xiv + 453 pages; ISBN 1 920942 28 9. The Noel...

Keith R. Binney, Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpents Legacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Keith R. Binney, Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpents Legacy, Volcanic Productions, Sydney, 2005, xxxii + 542 pages; ISBN 0 646 44865 X. This book covers the history of the horse in New South Wales from the First...

Nonja Peters, The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Nonja Peters, The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2006, xix + 422 pages; ISBN 1 920694 75 7. This year marks the quatercentenary of the Dutch arrival in Australia, when the ship Duyfken made...

Raymond Nobbs, Norfolk Island and its Third Settlement: the first hundred years.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Raymond Nobbs, Norfolk Island and its Third Settlement: the first hundred years, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 2006, xiv + 242 pages; ISBN 0 9775133 27. 2006 also marks the sesquicentenary of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders...

Victor Crittenden, John Lang: Australia's larrikin writer, barrister, novelist, journalist and gentleman.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Victor Crittenden, John Lang: Australia's larrikin writer, barrister, novelist, journalist and gentleman, Mulini Press, Canberra, 2005, xiv + 247 pages; ISBN 978 0 9757232 3 5. John Lang was born in Sydney in 1816 but spent much of his...