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Graeme Davison, The Unforgiving Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993. This book, the third in the Australian Retrospectives series, has been around for about a year now. Its task was to present Australia’s…
Russell McGregor, Imagined Destinies. Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 Melbourne: MUP, 1997. ISBN 0552847625 RRP $29.95 Reviewed by Peggy Brock Russell McGregor makes a valuable contribution to the literature on ideas of race in this volume on…
Agency for Instructional Technology “AIT products include video programming, interactive videodiscs, computer software, CD-ROMs, and supporting print. AIT materials, which comprise 40% of all broadcast video classroom programming in the U.S. and Canada, are used on six continents, reaching…
The North Queensland Oral History Project commenced in 1979 with the award of a major Australian Research Council Grant to the late Professor Brian J. Dalton and Dr Henry Reynolds. Since that time it has continued on a reduced scale…
Kay Daniels, Convict Women (Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 1998), pp. 276. ISBN 1 86448 677 5. Reviewed by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. Convict Women is the latest of a number of works on female transportees to have appeared in the last…
Helen Martin and Sam Edwards, New Zealand Film, 1912-1996. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. vi+215 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $NZ49.95 (soft bound). ISBN 0-19-558336-1. Reviewed by Caroline Daley, University of Auckland In 1945 a New Zealand film critic, Gordon Mirams,…
We are currently working on providing a search engine that will allow you to search the full text of the Hulme letters by keyword. The letters of William Hulme were transcribed by Ken Hulme, his great-grand son, who is a…
John E.Martin, Holding the Balance. A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 1996, 478 pp. Reviewed by Graeme Dunstall, Department of History, University of Canterbury. New Zealand’s Department of Labour has been a pivotal…
Making Crime Pay. The Evolution of Convict Tourism in Tasmania by David Young; Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1996, pp 208, rrp $20. ISBN 0 909479 16X. Reviewed by Peter Pierce, School of Languages, Literature and Communication, James Cook University…
Chris Long, Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940. A Directory. Tasmanian Historical Research Association & Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1995. Reviewed by Richard Neville. The compilers of lists engage upon an ill- rewarded task. General readers are thankful for the effort, but…
