Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 2007

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 2007

Bungling a courthouse: a story of convict workplace reform.
June 1, 2007... The collection of essays in the volume Convict Workers is now almost twenty years old. (1) Some of its assertions have become truisms. Convicts did bring work experience with them, and were put to work in Australia, often on jobs familiar to...

Fascism within the pre World War II Italian population of Queensland: a study of community processes and interaction.
June 1, 2007... 'If I had made an application to belong to some Fascio it was for business reasons, because the Consul had promised to give some consideration to the Italian community'. Dario Burla during the appeal against his internment, 13 February 1941....

An analytical approach to the events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804.
June 1, 2007... Risdon Cove was the first English settlement in Tasmania, established in September 1803 by Lieutenant John Bowen, RN. In February 1804 David Collins relocated his own settlement from Port Phillip. He chose to settle nearly eight kilometres down...

Burdekin House: a turning point in preservation history.
June 1, 2007... In 1922 Burdekin House, acknowledged as the finest example of colonial domestic architecture in Sydney, was threatened with demolition. Historians, already leaders among preservationists of colonial buildings, led a deputation which included...

Improvisatory musical practices in Australia's colonial Church of England.
June 1, 2007... The term improvisatory found in the title of this article must be understood in broad terms if any attempt to trace the history of improvisation in Australian church music is to be undertaken. The word used in both colonial and contemporary...

Frederick Campbell of Yarralumla: a forgotten pioneer pastoralist.(Biography)
June 1, 2007... The learning years For thirty years before the Queanbeyan area was nominated as the site for Australia's capital city, Frederick Campbell was a driving force in the district's development. But who was Frederick Campbell? Frederick...

Brian W. Richardson, Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Brian W. Richardson, Longitude and Empire: how Captain Cook's voyages changed the world, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2005, xvi + 240 pages; ISBN 0 7748 11 900. The year 2006 saw much activity pursuing the theme...

Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales.(A History of Victoria)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, 299 pages; ISBN 13 978 0 521 54168 8. Geoffrey Blainey, A History of Victoria, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, 304 pages; ISBN 13 978...

Ken R. Manley, From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': A History of Australian Baptists.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Ken R. Manley, From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': a history of Australian Baptists, Paternoster, Milton Keynes UK, 2006, 856 pages; ISBN 1 84227 405 8 (2 volumes) This monumental and extremely detailed two-volume work contains 771 pages of...

Peter J. Tyler, Humble and Obedient Servants: The Administration of New South Wales, Volume 2, 1901-1960.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Peter J. Tyler, Humble and Obedient Servants: the administration of New South Wales, Volume 2, 1901-1960, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006, xvi + 267 pages; ISBN 0 86840 824 7. In the preceding volume in this series,...

Michael Roe, An Imperial Disaster: The Wreck of the George the Third.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Michael Roe, An Imperial Disaster: the wreck of the George the Third, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2006, viii + 294 pages; ISBN 0 908258 32 9. This book is a retirement project of one of Australia's most distinguished historians, Michael...

Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced: Florence Nightingale's envoy to Australia, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2006; ISBN 1-920898-39-5. Nursing history often tends towards hagiography, but this splendid biography avoids that...

Peter C. Rickwood and David J. West (eds), Blackheath: Today from Yesterday, the History of a Town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Peter C. Rickwood and David J. West (eds), Blackheath: today from yesterday: the history of a town in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, WriteLight Pty Ltd for the Rotary Club of Blackheath Inc, Blackheath, 2005, 640 pages; ISBN 0 9581934 5...

Colin L. Macdonald, The Jamie York Letters Revisited.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Colin L. Macdonald, The Jamie York Letters Revisited, Friends of Ferguson Memorial Library, Strawberry Hills NSW, 2003, 193 pages; ISBN 0 949197 88 2 Between January 1963 and December 1965, seventy-three notable letters signed by 'Jamie...

Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper, High Lean Country: Land, People and Memory in New England.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper, High Lean Country: land, people and memory in New England, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2006, xii + 416 pages; ISBN 978 1 74175 086 7. Judith Wright's 1940 poem 'South of my Days' ends...

Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (eds), 'No Fit Place for Women'?: Women in NSW Politics, 1856-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell (eds), 'No Fit Place for Women'?: women in NSW politics, 1856-2006, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, xii + 289 pages; ISBN 0 522 86840 964 2. Rather than a biographical dictionary, as the title may imply, this...

M. M. H. Thompson, The Seeds of Democracy: Early Elections in Colonial NSW.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... M. M. H. Thompson, The Seeds of Democracy: early elections in colonial NSW, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, 302 pages; ISBN 978 186287 631 6. This work covers the elections from the first in 1843 for the Legislative Council up to the first...

Anne Twomey, The Chameleon Crown: The Queen and Her Australian Governors.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Anne Twomey, The Chameleon Crown: the Queen and her Australian governors, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, xv + 304 pages; ISBN 978 186287 629 3. The subtitle of this book is misleading as its scope is well beyond the reign of the current...

Terry Irving, The Southern Tree of Liberty: The Democratic Movement in NSW Before 1856.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Terry Irving, The Southern Tree of Liberty: the democratic movement in NSW before 1856, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, x + 290 pages; ISBN 978 186287 617 0. Distinguished labour historian Terry Irving takes us back to the Sydney of the...

Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in NSW 1910-2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: minor parties and independents in NSW 1910-2006, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, ix + 238 pages; ISBN 978 1 86287 623 1. The ALP and coalition Liberals and Nationals have dominated but not monopolised...

Tom Sheridan, Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront under Menzies.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Tom Sheridan, Australia's Own Cold War: the waterfront under Menzies, MUP, Melbourne, 2006, xiv + 391 pages; ISBN 978 0 522 85385 8. Vital for Australia's economy, the waterfront was a political football long before the dramatic dispute of...