Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 2001

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 2001

Foreword.
June 1, 2001... TIME has no divisions to mark its passage yet mankind has an innate urge to celebrate with fanfare the beginning of the seasons, the years and the centuries. And historians especially delight in this artifice; hence the timing of this...

The Royal Australian Historical Society and the writing of Australian history.
June 1, 2001... THE Royal Australian Historical Society was founded at a time when the writing of Australian history was beginning to move in new directions. Until late in the nineteenth century the subject had been in the hands of annalists, journalists,...

Principal Office-Bearers of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... Presidents Andrew Houison 1901 Norman Selfe 1902 William Henry Hazell Yarrington 1903 Arthur Ashworth Aspinall ...

The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part I `Students of a like hobby': the Society 1900-1954(*).
June 1, 2001... THE inaugural meeting of the Australian Historical Society was held at the Queen's Hall, Pitt Street, on 15 March 1901. There had been heavy rain during the day and early evening. Attendance was `miserable' despite advertisement in the press....

The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part II Growth and Change: the Society 1955-1985(*).
June 1, 2001... ALL human institutions go through periods of tension and stress and our Society is certainly no exception. As discussed in Part I of this paper, the early 1950s was one such period of turmoil; antagonisms then aroused carried over into Dr...

The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part III Closing the first hundred years: the Society from the 1980s to 2001.
June 1, 2001... As a learned society with a `Royal' epithet, the Royal Australian Historical Society found itself in congenial surroundings when it opened the doors of its second `History House' in November 1971. Home to Government House, the New South Wales...

The motto of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... THE Society's motto veteris non inscius aevi was proposed in 1901 by William Yarrington. The Reverend William Henry Hazell Yarrington was a councillor of the Society from 1901 to 1918, President in 1903 and 1910 and a Fellow from 1920 until his...

Fellows, 1901-2001.
June 1, 2001... Fellows, 1901-2001 Elected Name Death 1916 Bertie, Charles Henry 1952 1916 Burfitt, Charles Trimby 1927 1916 Cramp, Karl Reginald ...

Biographical notes on the Fellows of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... IN March 1916 Percy Marks, a Sydney solicitor and Councillor of the Society, wrote to the Honorary Secretary, Karl Cramp, proposing the concept of Fellowship of the (then) AHS and enclosing draft rules. The revised roles, adopted in August...

Finding and keeping `a home of its own': the Society and its premises over the twentieth century.
June 1, 2001... FOR the first forty years of its existence, the Royal Australian Historical Society lived in rented premises. Its tenancies were of varying duration, though by far the longest was in the 1912 head office of the New South Wales Department of...

The Women's Auxiliary and its successors.
June 1, 2001... IN 1911 the Australian Historical Society changed its rules to allow women to be admitted to Council, one motivation perhaps being to `broaden its franchise', as early Annual Reports repeatedly referred to the need to increase membership. The...

Affiliated Societies of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... ALTHOUGH the Royal Australian Historical Society was a Sydney-based organisation, the early Councils were aware that there were potential members all over the State and, in fact, all over Australia. Realistically, these far flung historians...

The Affiliated Societies of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
June 1, 2001... THIS list includes all societies which have affiliated with the Royal Australian Historical Society since 1935, the year when the first two affiliates joined. The societies in plain text with a listed location are currently affiliated members...

The Excursions Story.
June 1, 2001... IN the first years of its existence, the RAHS concerned itself with what it should do. The first Annual Report of the then Australian Historical Society mentioned monthly meetings, at each of which one or two papers were read: `Bennelong Point...

Honorary Fellows of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... ARTICLE of Association twenty-two of the RAHS states that: `The Council may appoint as Honorary Fellows persons who have made, in the Council's opinion, a valuable contribution to the Society or to the knowledge of Australian history. Not more...

Honorary Members of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... ARTICLE of Association nine of the RAHS allows for the Council `to submit for election at an ordinary general meeting the name of any person who has rendered valuable service in the furtherance of the objects of the Society.' No more than two...

The Library of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... `The objects of the society shall be as follows: a) the collection and preservation for the use of members of the Society, of all books, newspapers, records, coins, stamps, prints, relics and [cognate] matters having reference to Australian...

The Archives of the RAHS.
June 1, 2001... ARCHIVES are essentially the documentary, records and other items created or received in the course of an organisation's day-to-day activities--minutes of meetings, invoices, receipts, accounting statements, ledgers, inwards and outwards...

Benefactions, Bequests and Gifts.
June 1, 2001... THE RAHS has always been in part dependent on the response of its members and members of the general community for financial support. Those who have given particularly generously during their lifetime have been recognized by election as...

RAHS School History and Debating Prizes.
June 1, 2001... FOR over eighty years the RAHS has sponsored prizes, funded by donations, for school children. As early as 1916 it had sought `the presentation of a substantial annual prize for secondary school students for Australian history studies.' In...

Councillors, 1901-2001.
June 1, 2001... Councillor, 1901-2001 Stack, Edward 1901-1904 Selfe, Norman 1901-1910 Bladen, Frank Murcott 1901-1901 Phillips, Frederick 1901-1901...

Dr Andrew Houison 15 March 1901(*).
June 1, 2001... IN the newspapers of to-day allusions are constantly being made to Forgotten Sydney. Year by year old land marks are being removed to make room for modern improvements, and in each year the hand of death is laid upon some of the older...

Dr Charles Currey 25 February 1958(*).
June 1, 2001... I SPEAK to YOU this evening, ladies and gentlemen, as one who has been a member of this Society for over thirty years, and as one who, during the past four years, has become very familiar with, and has had some part in, its several activities....

Associate Professor Kenneth Cable 6 May 1980(*).
June 1, 2001... IN the eighty years of the Society's history, presidents have given addresses at the Annual General Meeting on many and diverse topics. I can still remember one occasion when the incumbent president delivered a learned and very lengthy lecture...

Dr Rosemary Annable 29 April 1995(*).
June 1, 2001... A Passion for History LIKE many societies founded in support of a specific, well defined, special interest, the aims of this Society, as set down in our Memorandum of Association, have stood the test of time and are as fresh and relevant...

Appendix I: JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY--ARTICLES ON THE SOCIETY'S HISTORY.
June 1, 2001... 1917 Cramp, K. R., `The Australian Historical Society--The Story of its Foundation'. JRAHS, IV (1), 1-14. 1926 Walker, F., `The Early Days of the Royal Australian Historical Society'. JRAHS, XII (4), 223-226. 1941 ...

Appendix II: PUBLICATIONS OF THE RAHS.
June 1, 2001... Monographs Annable, Rosemary, 1788 is just around the corner: an historical guide to Sydney. State Bank & RAHS, 1988. Bartley, Nehemiah, Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences 1849-1894 (with introduction by Colin Roderick). John...

Appendix III: MEMBERSHIP FIGURES OF THE RAHS 1901 TO 2000.
June 1, 2001... THE total of number of members as published in the Annual Reports show a generally increasing membership until the late 1980s since when the numbers have levelled out. The published figures are not always accurate, especially as unfinancial...

Appendix IV: COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES ERECTED BY THE RAHS.
June 1, 2001... FOR much of its history the RAHS has taken the lead in identifying and marking sites of historic interest, mostly in New South Wales. As early as August 1915 a deputation from the Society met with the Chief Secretary, the Hon. George Black,...