Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from December 2008

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from December 2008

'Language to save the innocent': Reverend L. Threlkeld's linguistic mission.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2008... The European colonisation of New South Wales resulted in the destruction of many Aboriginal languages. Of these, the so-called Awabakal language spoken by Aboriginal people who lived around the Lake Macquarie area, south of Newcastle--is...

Surveyor George Boyle White.(Biography)
December 1, 2008... George Boyle White sailed into Sydney Harbour, 7 January 1826, on board the Cawdrey. Once before he had sailed into this welcoming deep-water anchorage. That was in 1819 when a junior officer in the navy of the East India Company in which he...

The Eton-Harrow Travelling School.(Organization overview)
December 1, 2008... The grandly-named Eton-Harrow Travelling School was the first school designed to cater for the most isolated children in New South Wales. It began operating in the north-western area in 1908, under the guidance of Inspector Joseph Finney, from...

Preserving the traditions of a 'great race': youth and national character in Queensland, 1859-1918.
December 1, 2008... In 1915, the Brisbane Courier declared that in order 'to make the growing race worthy of its heritage' it was crucial to ensure 'that the children are learning the same worthy lessons, [and] are kept in an environment where the soul can expand...

Anatomy of an 'eviction riot' in Sydney during the Great Depression.(Sydney, Australia)(Essay)
December 1, 2008... On 17 June 1931, 'one of the most serious disturbances ever dealt with by the police' in carrying out an eviction order took place at a barricaded house in Brancourt Avenue, Bankstown. (1) The 'Battle of Bankstown' was described as the...

Norman weekes' contribution to modern town planning and design in New South Wales.(Biography)
December 1, 2008... Prior to the publication of his Post-War Planning for the County of Cumberland in New South Wales in 1968, James Colman sought a meeting with planner, engineer and architect Norman Weekes because, he explained, 'no-one is better qualified than...

Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds), Australia's Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series).(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds), Australia's Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, xii + 419 pages; ISBN 978 0 19 927373 7. A quick glance at the title suggests that...

James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2008, xi + 388 pages; ISBN 9781863954136. An environmental history of nineteenth-century Tasmania is long overdue and this new book by James Boyce goes some way to filling this gap. He...

Philip Ayres, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Philip Ayres, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007, xvi + 367 pages; ISBN 978 0 522 85373 5. There is no shortage of biographies of famous Australian Roman Catholics. Mary MacKillop has...

Harriet Edquist, Pioneers of Modernism: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Harriet Edquist, Pioneers of Modernism: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2008, xiv + 267 pages; ISBN 978-0-522-85178-6. Dr Edquist, Professor of Architectural History at RMIT University, Melbourne, has...

Robert Crawford, But Wait, There's More ... a history of Australian advertising 1900-2000.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Robert Crawford, But Wait, There's More... a history of Australian advertising 1900-2000, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2008, xii + 300 pages; ISBN 9780522853223. Much of our folk memory is derived from advertising. The jingles...

Peter Stanley, Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia 1942.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Peter Stanley, Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia 1942, Viking, Melbourne, 2008, x + 307 pages; ISBN 9780670029259. Historians dream of unleashing the type of debate which has greeted Peter Stanley's new book on World...

Robert Irving and Noel Irving, Donald Thomas Esplin, Sydney architect: his life and work.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Robert Irving and Noel Irving, Donald Thomas Esplin, Sydney architect: his life and work, authors, Sydney, 2008, vi + 198 pages; ISBN 9780646490021. Donald Esplin was a notable contributor to Sydney's architectural history, designing more...

Neil Cadigan, A Man Among Mavericks: Lester Brain: Australia's greatest aviator.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Neil Cadigan, A Man Among Mavericks: Lester Brain: Australia's greatest aviator, ABC Books, Sydney, 2008, xi + 238 pages; ISBN 978 0 7333 2096 5. Lester Brain was praised in 1929 as 'the best aviator in Australia' after his rescue of the...

Jim Allen, Port Essington: the historical archaeology of a north Australian nineteenth-century military outpost.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Jim Allen, Port Essington: the historical archaeology of a north Australian nineteenth-century military outpost, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008, xvi + 141 pages; ISBN 978-1-920898-87-8. Port Essington on the Northern Territory's...

Jennifer Clark, Aborigines and Activism: race, Aborigines and the coming of the Sixties to Australia.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Jennifer Clark, Aborigines and Activism: race, Aborigines and the coming of the Sixties to Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2008, vii + 308 pages; ISBN 9780980296570. The social and political history of the 1960s...