From the President: Desley Deacon

From the Editor: Marian Quartly

Friendships in the Hothouse: Power, Politics and the Possibilities of Friendship
James Walter

The 'Lone Wolf' in Sheep's Clothing? Maurice Blackburn, the Australian Labor Party and the Limits to Mateship
Carolyn Rasmussen

Friendship, Trust, and Political Influence in Poor Working-Class Britain
Marc Brodie

Prisons as Spaces of Friendships in Apartheid South Africa
Barbara Caine

The Spanish Precedent: British Volunteers in the Russo-Finnish War
Elizabeth Roberts

'There were vegetables every year Mr Green was here': Right Behaviour and the Struggle for Autonomy at Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve
Richard Broome

The Other Welfare State: Non-Government Agencies and the Mixed Economy of Welfare in Australia
John Murphy

'Captured by Kindness': Australian Press Representations of the Vietnam War, 1965–1970
Rachel Stevens

A Region, its Recipes and their Meaning: The Birth of the Barossa Cookery Book
Angela Heuzenroeder

History as Service Teaching: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Martin Crotty, Eric Eklund

Immigration Department Library Saved
Ann-Mari Jordens

Atramentous History
James Warden

Response to a Critic
Michael Connor

The View from Italy: AHA Presidential Address, July 2006
Ros Pesman

John Ritchie, 1941-2006 — Ian Hancock

A Memoir of Vera Bradford, Master Pianist
Ivor Morgan (This article includes digital video and sound clips)

Richard Taylor's Bondi: A Biography
reviewed by Cameron White

Peter Doyle's City of Shadows
reviewed by Katherine Biber

Patricia Tryon Macdonald's Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
reviewed by Moya McFadzean

Peter Cox's On the Box: Great Moments in Australian Television 1956–2006
reviewed by Michelle Arrow

Kate Walsh and Jan Mudge's Gallipoli: The South Australian Story
reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

Robert Aldrich
Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories
reviewed by Paul Pickering

Leigh Edmonds
Living by Water: A History of Barwon Water and its Predecessors
reviewed by Michael Cathcart

Keith R. Binney
Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpents Legacy
reviewed by Richard Waterhouse

The Australian Society for Sports , 2004 and 2005
History Studies 14–18 and Football Fever
reviewed by Robert Pascoe

Gideon Haigh
Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries
reviewed by Lenore Layman

Robin Haines
Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia
reviewed by Emma Christopher

Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
reviewed by Lisa Murray

S. O'Hanlon and T. Luckins
Go! Melbourne in the Sixties
reviewed by Charlie Fox

Stephen Pyne
The Still-Burning Bush
reviewed by John Schauble

Carolyn Landon
Jackson's Track Revisited: History, Remembrance and Reconciliation
reviewed by Sue Taffe

Australian Historical Association (AHA)

AHA calendar of events

AHA Annual General Meeting minutes 4 July 2006, T2, Manning Clark Centre, ANU — Janet Doust

AHA honour roll

AHA prizes 2006 and beyond

AHA prizes and awards