Review(s) of: This is what a feminist looks like: The rise and rise of Australian feminism, by Emily Maguire, Canberra, ACT, NLA Publishing, 2019, 249, pages; ISBN 9780642279453.
Review(s) of: The seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia, by Michelle Arrow, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2019, 296 pages, ISBN 9781742234700.
This article examines the role of his vessel in James Cook’s first Pacific voyage. The Endeavour strongly influenced what Cook was able to attempt and its limitations directed the course of the voyage. A close reading of the journals of Cook and Joseph Banks reveals the ways in which the physical conditions of the vessel influenced the voyage and casts fresh light on the Endeavour’s voyage around the world.
Review(s) of: Convicted: A Fascinating History of Colonial Australia Retold Through Three Generations of the One Family, by Peter Bradley, Impact Press, Edgecliff NSW, 2018, x + 342 pages; ISBN 9781925384512.
Review(s) of: Port Kembla: A memoir, by Pam Menzies, Arcadia, North Melbourne, 2019, xiii + 220 pages, ISBN 9781925801590.
Review(s) of: The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony 1788-1817, by Stephen Gapps, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2018, viii + 319 pages, maps; ISBN 9781742232140.
Review(s) of: Roads, tourism and cultural history: On the road in Australia, by Rosemary Kerr, Tourism and Cultural Change Series No. 53, Channel View Publications, Bristol UK, 2019, xiii + 290 pages, ISBN-13 9781845416683.
There is a growing literature on Anglican ministry among colonial Chinese settlers in Australia. In her book documenting anti-Chinese racism in Victoria, Kathryn Cronin devoted a chapter to missionary activities of the Protestant churches including the work of Anglicans. Keith Cole followed with a more detailed account of Anglican ministry among Chinese on the central Victorian goldfields. More recently Ian Welch has further developed our understanding of the Anglican ministry to Chinese in Victoria in his unpublished doctoral dissertation on Cheok Hong Cheong, and in published studies. There are also two studies in Queensland Anglican history: one a biographical study of a Chinese settler in Queensland, and the other on the development of a mission to the Chinese in Brisbane from the late 1870s. Ministry to Brisbane's Chinese population is linked to what was happening in Sydney at much the same time, as Soo Hoo Ten was a part of a network that connected ministry among Chinese in several colonies and across denominational boundaries. These networks and activities are also referenced in studies of the Chinese in parts of regional New South Wales.
The first railways built in Britain were regarded with considerable suspicion. Landowners were concerned that the noise and rapid movement of trains would scare cattle and sheep, or worse, would kill their stock if they strayed onto the lines; and travellers worried that their horses would bolt when they saw trains. Thus, the lines were fenced with various combinations of fences typical of the time: hedges, ditches-and-banks, and various wooden fences. By the late 1840s, Scottish iron manufacturer Charles D. Young and Co recognised a developing market, and advertised a series of wire fences specifically for lineside fences.
Review(s) of: Bedlam at Botany Bay, by James Dunk, NewSouth, Sydney, 2019, x + 308, pages, ISBN 9781742236179.
In late 1996 the Museums Committee of the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts initiated a project to survey and assist local museums in regional New South Wales in the identification, care and display of objects relating to the history of Chinese people in their localities and regions. The resulting talks, publications, assistance to museums and community groups, travelling exhibition and book were presented under the banner of 'Golden Threads: The Chinese in regional NSW 1850-1950'.
Review(s) of: Independent minds: A history of St George Girls High School, by Pauline Curby, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW, 2016, xiii + 230 pages, ISBN 978 1 74223 240 9.
Review(s) of: What do we want?: The story of protest in Australia, by Clive Hamilton, National Library of Australia Publishing, Canberra, 2016, ix + 209 pages, ISBN 978 0 64227 891 3.
Review(s) of: Elizabeth Macarthur: A life at the edge of the world, by Michelle Scott Tucker, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2018, x + 386 pages + 8 pages of illustrations, ISBN 978 1 92560 342 2.
Australia's history since 1788 has been one of a sequence of dispossession as European settlement pushed further and further inland. The ethnic mix of the Australian colonies underwent continual change. The productivity of clustered, cohesive communities reluctant to marry outside their religious group, such as the Lutheran Germans, brought about envy among many British settlers. As the Germans were also Christian and Europeans, however, this was difficult to articulate. This was different from those cases where ethnic 'otherness' of the rivals lent itself to racist stereotyping.
