Frank the Poet: Francis MacNamara, 1811-1861
Francis MacNamara, was born in 1811 in Cashel, he claimed, in the County Tipperary, Ireland. He was transported to Botany Bay in 1832, then to Van Diemen’s Land arriving 29
31 August 2015
Francis MacNamara, was born in 1811 in Cashel, he claimed, in the County Tipperary, Ireland. He was transported to Botany Bay in 1832, then to Van Diemen’s Land arriving 29
Jill Wheeler’s Linton Makes History: An Australian Goldfields Town and its Past (Melbourne University Publishing) places the history of this small gold rush town in western Victoria in the context
In Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth Books), Catherine Bishop populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of enterprises
Babette Smith’s, The Luck of the Irish: How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia (Allen & Unwin) is a
Tanya Evans’s Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales (NewSouth Books) uses the extensive archives of The Benevolent Society, Australia’s first charity founded in 1813, to reclaim unknown
Janine Rizzetti is a history postgraduate student at La Trobe University who is writing a thesis on Justice John Walpole Willis, the first Resident Judge of Port Phillip between 1841
Martin Playne’s book illustrates the value of examining in detail the lives of individuals during the boisterous years of early settlement and the gold rush between 1839 and 1854 using
This issue of History Australia brings together several of the threads that have been conspicuous during the last few years of the journal’s career. There is the centenary of the
Angela Woollacott’s latest book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015) uses life stories of men and women to explain the rapid spread
Robinson Crusoe’s call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing’s Restless
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly (University of Cambridge) gave one of the keynote speeches at the 2012 AHA conference held in Wollongong. Professor Bayly has kindly shared this speech with AHA