Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 1999

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 1999

Cardinal Gilroy's Anzac Day problem.
June 1, 1999... In Australia there are two national holidays, Australia Day (January 26) and Anzac Day (April 25), whose focus is the Australian nation. Although both days have been seen as occasions to affirm and enhance the unity of the nation, each has...

Monitoring the situation: the `convict journal', convict protest and convicts' rights.
June 1, 1999... In 1979, Alan Atkinson published an article entitled `Four Patterns of Convict Protest'. In it he showed that convicts were capable of confronting authority where points of general principle were involved. Four categories of protest were...

Surviving the Peninsular War in Australia: Juan De Arrieta--Spanish free settler and colonial gentleman.
June 1, 1999... The cohort of free men who came to Australia after the Napoleonic Wars comprised military officials appointed to administer the penal colony, ordinary soldiers in military detachments guarding the convicts, and a number of free settlers.(1) The...

The French presence in Sydney and the establishment of the French Chamber of Commerce.
June 1, 1999... Introduction Some privileged topics in the history of French-Australian relations, such as the French explorations in the Pacific, have inspired an abundant literature, a great deal of which has fed into mainstream Australian history. Some...

Irish Women in Colonial Australia.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Trevor McClaughlin (ed.), Irish Women in Colonial Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1 86448 715 1; xvii + 229 pages, RRP $24.95. Almost one-eighth of the immigrants into Australia between 1788 and 1900 were Irish females. On one...

Flanders in Australia: A Personal History of Wool and War.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Jacqueline Dwyer, Flanders in Australia: A Personal History of Wool and War, Sydney, Kangaroo Press, 1998, ISBN 0 86417 969 3; 224 pages, with notes, illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index. This delightful book makes a...

Sutherland Shire.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Maryanne Larkin, Sutherland Shire. A History to 1939, Sutherland History Press (P.O. Box 473, Jannali, NSW), 1998, ISBN 0 646 36239 9; 198 pages with notes, illustrations and index; RRP $24.95, paperback. This is a fine history destined to...