Camden History Notes
Ian Willis documents Camden stories drawn from the memories and experiences of local families, local identities, community organisations, local institutions, local rituals and traditions, and a host of other matters.
Ian Willis documents Camden stories drawn from the memories and experiences of local families, local identities, community organisations, local institutions, local rituals and traditions, and a host of other matters.
William Cuffay, grandson of an African slave and son of a West Indian slave joined the Chartist movement in 1839 and soon became well known for his oratory and sense
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
Mark Gregory (with Brian Dunnett) have created an online research site that has its origins in a projected created by workers in the Chullora Railway Workshops in NSW in 1984.
Daniel Reynaud’s The Man the Anzacs Revered: William ‘Fighting Mac’ McKenzie, Anzac Chaplain is the first biography of ‘Fighting Mac’ to sort the facts from the fiction and present William
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
In Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan (University of Hawai’i Press) Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin offer the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutan
In Crisis of the Wasteful Nation (University of Chicago Press), Ian Tyrrell gives us a cohesive picture of Roosevelt’s engagement with the natural world along with a compelling portrait of
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Time is fast running out to register for the ‘War and Emotions’ symposium, 17-18 September 2015, Melbourne Museum. Speakers include some of the most outstanding historians on the impacts of
The annual Heads of History meeting was held at the University of Sydney on Monday 6 July 2015, the first day of the AHA conference. The documents relating to this
The History Council NSW’s program for History Week (5– 3 September) is now available on their website. Many AHA members are involved in the more than 80 events taking place
AHA member Kerry King is the 2015 recipient of the Margaret Medcalf Award for her PhD thesis ‘A lesser species of homicide – manslaughter, negligent and dangerous driving causing death:
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