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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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