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EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Three

Volume 3 ‘Margaret’ To Van Dieman’s Land Visiting convicts and Chartists The ‘Faith’ almost to Pitcairn The ‘Star’ goes a-trading South Sea ponies The ‘Swallow’ In being paid off from the American schooner ‘Pride of the Seas’, I enjoyed a…

Notes to Laugesen

Notes (1) Typified by the work of Patricia Limerick in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken past of the American West, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1987. (2) See, for example, M. Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, University of Chicago…

Untitled Document

1. E. Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand, Vol. 2, London, 1843, p. 142. 2. Normanby to Hobson, 14, 15 August 1839, in Great Britain Parliamentary Papers (GBPP) 1840, Vol. 23, pp. 37-40. 3. Ibid. 4. Letter from Viscount Palmerston, Foreign…

EJANZH: Davison on History and Hypertext

Graeme Davison, Department of History, Monash University. Years ago, when I used to teach a course on the history of the industrial revolution, we sometimes discussed what it must have been like to live through that era of cataclysmic technological…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

We went over in three lines. I think there were 32 boats in the three lines and on our left flank we had the Sydney and I think. I don’t know what was leading .. I’ve got the records in…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

In Paletsine and Syria, our food was quite good. I don’t feel that we could complain about it at all excepting the quality of our cooks. And its common knowledge that they spoilt more good food than they cooked. But…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: The desert’s a big place and there a lot of hills in it that are here today and gone tomorrow for camps and I don’t remember the actual place. I can remember an instance when we were chased –…