Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 2003

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 2003

A tree and a legend: the making of past and place in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.
June 1, 2003... The Explorers' Tree is situated beside the Great Western Highway at the base of Pulpit Hill just west of Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney, New South Wales. For over a century the tree was a well known Blue Mountains landmark,...

The influence of Angus and Robertson on colonial knowledge.
June 1, 2003... Introduction (1) At the end of the nineteenth century, Angus and Robertson became agent and bookseller to the University of Sydney and the Public Library of New South Wales. (2) George Robertson supplied and on occasions selected their...

John Lane Mullins, father of the Australian bookplate movement.(Biography)
June 1, 2003... Introduction Bookplates, or ex libris, labels pasted inside books to denote ownership, have been in use in Europe since shortly after the invention of printing from moveable type. Collecting these small pieces of paper is documented in...

Newcastle rallies to the flag, February 1902: Arthur Hill Griffith and opposition to the Boer War.(Biography)
June 1, 2003... In an article, '"A Wanton Deed of Blood and Rapine": Opposition to Australian Participation in the Boer War', Bobbie Oliver mentioned in passing 'Griffiths, in the NSW Parliament,' as one of the members of the 'Australian labour movement'...

A `menace to the community': mental defectives in Queensland mental health legislation, 1938 *.
June 1, 2003... In 1938, the Queensland government passed two Bills relating to mental health care in the state: the Mental Hygiene Act of 1938 and the Backward Persons Act of 1938. During the debate in parliament prior to the passage of this legislation,...

Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges & Jane Simpson (eds), This Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2002, xxv + 304 pages; ISBN 1 74076 020 4. Working as an indigenous archivist or librarian you are often asked questions about Aboriginal place names. Whether it is a local history inquiry or research for native title, often no simple...

Tim Flannery (ed), The Birth of Melbourne.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Text Publishing Co., Melbourne, 2002, 392 pp; ISBN 1 877008 389 They're all here. The usual suspects. David Collins and the ill-fated settlement at Sorrento; John Batman buying the site of Melbourne; Hoddle laying out the town; gold and its...

John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... University of New South Wales 2002; ISBN 0 86840 756 9. This rather slight book which only stretches to a meagre one hundred and twenty pages of narrative text has grown out of the author's university thesis. Australian Frontier Wars has...

B. W. Higman, Domestic Service in Australia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Melbourne University Press 2002, 358 pp; ISBN 0 522 85011 1. Professor Higman has produced a wide-ranging and significant study of domestic service in Australia from 1788 to the present day. He begins with an overview of early Australian...

Paul Reid, Canberra Following Griffin: a Design History of Australia's National Capital.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002, 378 pages; ISBN 0 642 34447 7. Walter Burley Griffin is best known for his Canberra design, but there is a rich resource of his buildings elsewhere in Australia. No-one who has seen them can...

Mark Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood: a History of the Presbyterian Church in NSW, 1788-2001.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Ferguson Publications and the Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Sydney, 2001; ISBN 0 949197 90 4. When the Rev. Dr James Cameron laid down his pen in March 1905, he hoped that his Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church...

Simon Cooke, A Meeting of Minds: the Australian Psychological Society and Australian Psychologists, 1944-1994.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Australian Psychological Society, 2000, 281pp; ISBN 0 909881 15 4. Psychology can stake a claim to being the most significant branch of medicine in the twentieth century. This is a capable and competent history of the professional body...

G. D. Woods, A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales: the colonial period, 1788-1900.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Federation Press, Leichhardt NSW, 459 pp; ISBN 1 86287 439 5. It is heartening to see a major undertaking well-executed. Although New South Wales was a penal colony, it was firmly based in British law. The author tracks the influence of...

Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia, 1788-1840.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Currency House, Strawberry Hills, 2002, 448 pp; ISBN 0 9581213 0 3. Australia has a rich theatrical history. This handsome book documents the early theatrical efforts of convicts in the colony of New South Wales. The publisher claims that...

Susan Hunt, Martin Terry and Nicholas Thomas, Lure of the Southern Seas: the Voyages of Dumont d'Urville, 1826-1840.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, 150pp (approx.); ISBN 1 876991 00 3. This beautifully and lavishly illustrated book documents the travels of Jules Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, who was inspired by Cook, but also...

Major General Gordon Maitland, The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment: Volume 1, 1885-1918 and Volume II, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Simon and Schuster, Roseville, NSW, 2001. ISBN 07318 1047 3 (vol. I) and ISBN 07318 1160 7 (vol. II). The New South Wales Regiment has a long and proud military career, as Major General Gordon has attested. As a longstanding officer in the...

Maev O' Collins, An Uneasy Relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 2002, 180 pp (approx.); ISBN 1 74076 021 2. Since 1914, Norfolk Island has been what the book describes as 'one of the historical...

Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Melbourne University Press, 2002, 219pp; ISBN0522850367. The idea of suggesting these two contemporary gentlemen as Australian folk heroes with iconic status in our culture is an interesting approach to both Mawson's Antarctic and inland...