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By Rodney Sullivan and Dawn May, School of History and Politics, James Cook University. An analysis of a clash between townspeople and a band of itinerant works in Cairns in 1932 provides a window on an incident which not only…
Dr Steve Mullins, Department of Humanities, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, 4702. July One is without doubt the most important date in the Torres Strait calender. Indeed it might be said that for most of the past century Torres Strait Islanders…
Glenn A. Davies The post of Gold Commissioner was never a sinecure on the Queensland tropical frontier. The population of the Charters Towers gold fields in the early 1870s included many miners who had followed the gold rushes northward from…
Philippa Martyr, Tasmanian School of Nursing, University of Tasmania The purpose of this paper is to turn one aspect of medical history completely upside down – the comic but slightly reprehensible figure of the quack as the necessary foil to…
Home: Conferences: Virtual Histories July 1999: Kym McCauley © Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History Genealogy, History and Hypermedia Authorship Kym McCauley In this paper I would like to draw on the title of this symposium ‘Virtual Histories:…
The Australian Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
Amanda Laugesen, Australian National University Through the nineteenth century, vast numbers of people emigrated to the American West to find some land, build a home, and be successful. The lure of the West was bound up in a mythology of…
Reviewed by Kevin Blackburn, School of Arts, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore At the above website location, there is an Irish convict database called ‘Transportation Records for 1791 to 1836’, which is part of the much larger National Archives of…
Volume 1 Early Recollections Working in the Cotton Mills To Liverpool The Sloop “Two Sisters” My First Sailing Voyage Learning the Ropes My earliest recollections as a boy were of a mother struggling hard to furnish myself and two little…
John Latham and the Statute of Westminster David L. Lewis University of Sydney This paper examines John Greig Latham’s reaction to the Statute of Westminster. Although one of the more important conservative figures of Australian politics, Latham has not been…
