E Jaggard
E Jaggard
The history and mythology of Australia's surf life-saving movement portray the surf life-saver as an inter and postwar national symbol, an image of manhood often regarded as the successor to that of the bushman and the digger. According to ...
R Broome
R Broome
This article explores the world of Sideshow Alley, which emerged from the ancient fair culture of Britain and took root in the agricultural show movement of Australia by the 1880s. There it flourished until the 1950s, when modernity and res...
The master potter and the rejected pots: eugenic legislation in Victoria, 1918-1939 [0.03%]
窑匠与残次品：1918-1939年维多利亚州的优生立法政策
R L Jones
R L Jones
In the period since Carol Bacchi introduced eugenics into Australian historiography in 1980, much has been written that has increased our understanding of the role eugenics played in the development of Australian society in the first half o...
P Cochrane
P Cochrane
Herbert Brookes was a wealthy businessman, a distinguished patron of high culture in Melbourne society, an anti-Labor eminence who moved comfortably in the highest of imperial circles. The richness of his papers in the National Library prov...
K McCabe
K McCabe
Assignment has been viewed as an instrument of oppression and exploitation of female convicts. This local study examines a group of female convicts assigned on the Hunter River from the Newcastle Female Factory over a ten-year period. It re...
R Ganter
R Ganter
Much information on traditional indigenous society in Australian historiography and anthropology stems from the vast store of eyewitness accounts left by missionaries, settlers and government officials. How cautious does one need to be in u...
J Duruz
J Duruz
This article traces examples of remembered food cultures of the 1950s and 1960s in Australia, as starting points for addressing their mythic re-inscription in the 1990s. Analysing iconic images from cookbooks, positioned against fragments o...
The limits of persuasion: advertising, gender and the culture of Australian smoking [0.03%]
劝说的局限性：广告、性别与澳大利亚吸烟文化的界限
I Tyrrell
I Tyrrell
This article examines the shift from pipe to cigarette smoking in Australia from World War I to the 1950s; challenges the assumption that women were the major source of the rising popularity of cigarette smoking; questions, through a conten...
A "lamentable failure"? The founding of Nightingale nursing in Australia, 1868-1884 [0.03%]
“可悲的失败”？澳大利亚护理事业的奠基——弗罗伦斯·南丁格尔的贡献（1868—1884）
J Godden
J Godden
Florence Nightingale's private assessment was that Lucy Osburn failed in her attempt to found Nightingale nursing in Australia. This assessment is directly at odds with those of historians who have unquestioningly accepted Osburn's success....
D Peel
D Peel
This paper is offered as an addition to the small existing body of research on the history of old age in Australia. It considers the experiences of a cohort of early settlers in a Victorian country district as they grew old in their communi...