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{"title":"Mis/Understanding Jens Lyng: Revisiting the Racialised Studies of an Early Twentieth-Century Historian","authors":"Mark Emmerson","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2287507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2287507","url":null,"abstract":"The works of Danish-Australian historian Jens Sørensen Lyng (1868–1941) provide a problematic foundation for Australian migration studies. His 1927 magnum opus, Non-Britishers in Australia: Influen...","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138817479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uninhabited Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Penang, Singapore and Botany Bay: What Did Terra Nullius Mean in British Colonial Thinking?","authors":"Gareth Knapman","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2273482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2273482","url":null,"abstract":"Enlightenment colonial actors never used the term ‘terra nullius’, they used the phrase ‘uninhabited land or island’. In the 1780s, uninhabited did not mean nobody lived there, but rather signified...","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Australia’s Presidents? Herbert Hoover and Lyndon B. Johnson Remembered","authors":"Dean J. Kotlowski","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2262492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2262492","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAmong US presidents, Herbert Hoover and Lyndon Johnson had the strongest ties to Australia. Hoover spent over a year in Australia as a mining engineer before launching a career in international business, food relief, and politics. In 1942, LBJ passed part of his pre-presidential career in Australia. Yet Johnson’s presidential tour in 1966, coupled with his return in 1967, generated massive enthusiasm and modest protests against the Vietnam War. President Johnson’s visits helped to solidify and celebrate US-Australian ties while encouraging Australian independence, even if during a war directed from Washington. While Hoover left his mark on Australia’s landscape in the mines he promoted and the sites that still stand, Australians found little appealing in the dour, Depression-era president who had come and gone without regarding their country as a friend or ally. Johnson thus became a consequential figure in Australia’s national history in ways Hoover never did. The author presented early versions of this article at the European Association for Studies of Australia conference in 2023 and at Bruce Hall, the Australian National University in 2022. For their comments and assistance, he thanks Frank Bongiorno, Will Christie, Damian Cole, Douglas Craig, Dean Fafoutis, Rae Frances, Katherine Jellison, Bruce Scates, Tim Rowse, and the journal’s anonymous referees. The author thanks the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Australian National University for supporting this research.No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Sydney Sun, 21 October 1966, 46.2 Adelaide Advertiser, 24 October 1966, 2.3 Australian Financial Review, 24 January 1973, 1; Brisbane Courier-Mail, 24 January 1973, 4.4 David Burner, Herbert Hoover: A Public Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 26.5 Dean Kotlowski, ‘Farewell to the Chief: Mourning and Memorializing Herbert Hoover’, in Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, eds Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023), 183–4.6 Yass Tribune, 18 December 1967, 2.7 Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1966, 2.8 Launceston Examiner, 19 October 1966, 22.9 Queanbeyan Age, 21 October 1966, 1.10 Heather Henderson, Letters to My Daughter: Robert Menzies, Letters, 1955–1975 (Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2011), 230.11 Launceston Examiner, 23 December 1967, 1; Melbourne Sun, 23 December 1967, 4.12 Adelaide Advertiser, 24 January 1973, 5.13 Robert Gordon Menzies Oral History, 24 November 1969, 15, Lyndon B. Johnson Library (hereafter LBJL), Austin, Texas.14 Dorothy Auchterlonie, ‘The Second Coming’, Meanjin Quarterly (1967), downloaded from search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.570026524535009. Western Sydney University (accessed 27 November 2022).15 David McLean, ‘Australia in the Cold War: A Historiographical Review’, International History Review 23, no. 2 (2001): 299–301.16 David Goodman, Gold Seeking: Victoria and Californi","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135325543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital History","authors":"Mike Jones, Alana Piper","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2267586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2267586","url":null,"abstract":"Digital history started to flourish in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and early 2010s. But some of this momentum has since been lost due to ageing technologies, a lack of supporting infrastructure, funding issues, discontinued projects, and limited teaching and training opportunities. This ‘state of the field’ article on digital history seeks to encourage greater reflexivity in the discipline by providing a detailed overview of the local context. It highlights some of the longstanding projects that continue to dominate the digital history landscape, while also exploring newly emerging innovations, opportunities and challenges. Examining such topics as infrastructure and tool development, digital archives and repositories, big history, public history, digital methods, and teaching, the authors conclude that additional investment is required to support progress in the field, and to ensure that past projects and data remain accessible into the future.","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Time Is Against Us’: Anti-Communism, Decolonisation, and Papua New Guinean Independence","authors":"Jon Piccini","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2256740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2256740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Criminal Law</i> – <i>Then, Now, Tomorrow</i> , Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane, 2 January 2023 to 31 December 2024","authors":"Bridget Andresen","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2256038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2256038","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art as a Source for the History of War: James McBey’s <i>Long Patrol</i> Images and Emotional Responses to the Sinai Campaign","authors":"Janet Butler","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2247006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2247006","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractVisual sources, capturing aspects of life silenced or left untold in textual accounts, have the potential to offer new, historical understandings of the individual experience of war. During World War I, official war artist James McBey created a series of images of Australian soldiers – Cameliers – on reconnaissance in the Sinai Desert. This article reads a selection of those images, arguing that what they signified and the emotions they aroused can be retrieved historically by considering their multiple contexts. These include not only the social, political, and military environments, but also the cultural imaginaries which the artist shared with his audiences. AcknowledgementThe author thanks the anonymous reviewers and the AHS editors, and the members of Melbourne Lifewriters, as well as Bill Breen, Liz Dimock, Lucy Ellem, Richard Haese and especially Lee-Ann Monk, for their expert comments, and Annalisa Giudici for her sound guidance. Gratitude is also due to Griffin Coe and Ann Steed of Aberdeen Art Gallery, Sandra Still of Aberdeen City Council, and Barbara Kehler for the Estate of James McBey, for their great kindness and assistance with permissions, and with archival and curatorial assistance, along with Andrew Webb, Sophie Fisher and Jenny Wood (Imperial War Museum), Jade Murray (Australian War Memorial), Elizabeth Bray (British Museum) and Neil Hodge (University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections). Katie Eglinton kindly allowed access to family papers. The reproduction of McBey’s Long Patrol series was made possible by the generosity of Aberdeen City Council, and additionally, in the case of Tracks Discovered, the Imperial War Museum and Martin Kennedy, Creative Director of the Studio International Foundation.Notes1 H.S. Gullett, The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine 1914–1918 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937), 69.2 Pre-censorship caption to No. 57, A Long Patrol in the Desert of Sinai, list attached to letter, Major Foster to Ivor Nicholson, 4 November 1917, First World War Artist’s Archive (hereafter FWWAA) 83-3 James McBey 1917–28 Part 1, Imperial War Museum (hereafter IWM), London; James McBey Sketchbook-War, ABDAG003075.43, Aberdeen Art Gallery.3 The Bir el Murr-Moiya Harab Road. James McBey, Diary, 12 July 1917, ABDAG9037; War Office Geographical Section, General Staff, No.2427/Lieut.Pratt RGA/Egyptian Survey Department, Egypt: Great Bitter Lake: Africa 1:125,000 (sheet North H-36/I-III) [Cartographic material], Great Britain, War Office, 1912.4 The Cameliers carried supplies for five days, and the Long Patrol is usually framed as this length.5 John Horne, ‘End of a Paradigm? Cultural History and the Great War’, Past & Present 242, no. 1 (February 2019): 185.6 See Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).7 Photographer Frank Hurley arrived in August 1917. Henry Gullett, the Official (Australian) War C","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating the Customs House, Then and Now: A Synthesis of British Colonial Collecting in Australia, 1788–1823","authors":"Daniel Simpson","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2255196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2255196","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAmid growing public and academic interest in the identification and return of Aboriginal objects acquired by Britain from Australia after 1788, enquiries into the disputed origins of the British Museum’s ‘Gweagal shield’ have highlighted the need for new and better forms of provenance research. This article explores a novel methodology and source of information: British Treasury and customs records detailing the descriptions, values, and duties paid upon a vast number of colonial collections of Aboriginal objects, human remains, and natural history specimens known to have disembarked in Britain between 1788 and 1823. By positing a new provenance for the ‘Gweagal shield’ – namely, that it may have accompanied Bennelong, Yemmerrawanne and Arthur Phillip on their passage to England in 1793 – the article explores the potential of such records for highlighting what, when, how, and from whom Australian collections arrived in Britain in this early and hitherto little-understood period. AcknowledgementI thank Dr Maria Nugent for her comments on early drafts; likewise, Professor Gaye Sculthorpe and Dr Paul Irish. I am also grateful to the staff of The National Archives, London for their assistance in procuring a large number of records.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Object Oc1978, Q.839, The British Museum.2 Nicholas Thomas, ‘A Case of Identity: The Artefacts of the 1770 Kamay (Botany Bay) Encounter’, Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 1 (February 2018): 4–27; Maria Nugent and Gaye Sculthorpe, ‘A Shield Loaded with History: Encounters, Objects and Exhibitions’, Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 1 (February 2018): 41.3 J.V.S. Megaw, ‘“There’s a Hole in my Shield … ”: A Textual Footnote’, Australian Archaeology 38, no. 1 (June 1994): 35–37.4 For a fuller account of past and present understandings of the role of taxation in the history of collecting, see Daniel Simpson, The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections (Cham: Springer, 2021), 189–217.5 Ibid., 253.6 On the post-1823 decline in reliability and utility of customs records, see below and Simpson, The Royal Navy, 211–14.7 Richard Neville, A Rage for Curiosity: Visualising Australia 1788–1830 (Sydney: State Library of New South Wales, 1997).8 Neil Macgregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects (London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2010).9 Thomas, ‘A Case of Identity’.10 Nicholas Thomas, ‘Museum Collections in Transit: Towards a History of the Artefacts of the Endeavour Voyage’, in Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice, ed. Zainabu Jallo (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).11 Ibid.12 Ibid.13 See, for example, Zoe Rimmer and Rebe Taylor, ‘An Analysis of the 2021 Apologies by the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community’, Australian Historical Studies 54, no. 1 (February 2023): 77–90.14 Chris Gosden and Frances Larson, Kn","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Native Colonials: Violet Mace’s Australian Aboriginal-Inspired Pottery Designs","authors":"Peter Hughes","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2251989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2251989","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn the first half of the twentieth century, many Australian artists, such as the Tasmanian ceramicist Violet Mace (1883–1968), sought to find a distinctly Australian visual expression. Although Modernist aesthetics challenged Mace and her contemporaries to explore abstraction, in order to convey Australia’s specificity she turned to Australian history. Initially, her imagery touched on frontier conflict and the motifs of nineteenth-century Aboriginal artists such as Tommy McCrae. After tracing the sources of Mace’s imagery, this article asks to what extent her representations de-historicised the frontier past and enabled contemporary viewers a comfortable distance from what many Australians now see as a story of violent conquest. Perhaps Mace’s imagery can be read as an episode in a national history of slowly growing appreciation of Australian Aboriginal culture, increasing discomfort with the story of racial and cultural inferiority, and willingness to acknowledge that Australia is the product of invasion. Notes1 This paper builds on a short article by the author on Mace’s work published in Art Monthly 307 (May 2018): 28–33. In the same year, Mace was the subject of an appendix to a catalogue published for an exhibition of Maude Poynter’s work, though neither the exhibition nor the catalogue included any of Mace’s work: Glenda King, Maude Poynter: Painter and Potter (Hobart: Australiana Society, 2018). The earlier literature on Mace is not extensive and mostly consists of brief historical accounts. These contain some valuable information but also factual errors, most frequently Mace’s birth year, usually cited as 1890 rather than 1883. These are: J. Bartram et al., Early Tasmanian Pottery 1920–1950, exhibition catalogue (Hobart: Tasmanian School of Art, TCAE, 1979); C. Ackland and C. Campbell, ‘Pioneer Craftswomen from the Bothwell Area’, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, Hobart, June 1994, 85–8; G. King, ‘Violet Mace’ and ‘Studio Pottery in Tasmania’, in Australian Art Pottery 1900–1950, eds K. Fahey, J. Freeland, K. Free and A. Simpson (Sydney: Casuarina Press, 2004). Penny Edmonds differs in offering a close examination of Mace’s work and its sources in an account of Mace’s use of the Proclamation Board image, in P. Edmonds, ‘The Proclamation Cup: Tasmanian Potter Violet Mace and Colonial Quotations’, reCollections 5, no. 2 (October 2010).2 Nicolas Thomas, Possessions; Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999), 111–14.3 Margaret Preston’s work and writing on Australian Aboriginal art, modernity, modernism and the need for an Australian national culture has been the subject of enquiries by a number of authors, most extensively in H. McQueen, The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia to 1944 (Sydney: Alternative Publishing Cooperative Limited, 1979), and more recently in David Macarthur, ‘The Experience of Aboriginality in the Creation of the Ra","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135948262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders <b> <i>Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders</i> </b> By Jordana Silverstein. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2023. Pp. 320. A$34.99paper.","authors":"Jayne Persian","doi":"10.1080/1031461x.2023.2261589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2023.2261589","url":null,"abstract":"\"Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders.\" Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":45582,"journal":{"name":"AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}