JUNE 1967: A new look at Sir Henry Parkes. The hearse hunters [Billabong Park, horse era museum]. A centenarian’s recollections [Mrs Elizabeth Gunter].

DECEMBER 1967: The old gold road from Bathurst (concluded) / A.T. Shakespeare. The coming of settlement to the Limestone Plains: a note / L.F. Fitzhardinge.

DECEMBER 1968: Crace family of Gungahleen / Frena Humphries.

MARCH 1969: The writing of history / C.M.H. Clark p1. An excess of land [Edward Crace] / D.I. McDonald p11.

SEPTEMBER 1969: Environa: a land developer’s dream / Hugh Clarke p1. Mountain episode [camping trip to Blue Waterhole] / Margaret F. De Salis p3. Canberra: select bibliography p5.

DECEMBER 1969: MacPherson family history / I.P. MacPherson p1. ‘This description of class litigation’: Crace versus Gribble / D.I. McDonald p8.

MARCH 1970: Sheep and live-stock of New South Wales 1788-1805 / J.C. Garran p1. A passage to Sydney, New South Wales April 1882 in ‘The favourite Aberdeen clipper ship Patriarch’ / J.R. Waight p17.

JUNE 1970: Gunner Forwood of H.M.S. Endeavour / R.B. Forwood p1. Charles Herbert Currey / J.M. Bennett p13.

SEPTEMBER 1970: Henry James O’Farrell: ‘Fenian, or moonstruck miscreant’ / D.I. McDonald p1. Nineteenth century photographers in Queanbeyan: a note / E.J. Lea-Scarlett p13. Hume and Hovell’s route through the Tumut district / A.F. Benson p16.

DECEMBER 1970: The discovery of Lake George / Errol Lea-Scarlett p1. Canberra’s first court: a fortieth anniversary [Court of Petty Sessions] / J.M. Bennett p5. Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the first Christian service in Goulburn district / A.W. Harris p14.

MARCH 1971: Profile of a northern leader: Raymond David Rex of Richmond Plantation, Mossman, Queensland / Roy G. Bettiens p1. The study of local history / D.I. McDonald p10.

JUNE 1971: The Kaye family / Margaret A. Kaye p1. The genesis of Sutton / E.J. Lea-Scarlett p12. A note on Royal Commissions / Nan Phillips.

SEPTEMBER 1971: Canberra under the Federal Capital Commission / R.H. Pocock p1. ‘A mantle of proper reserve’ [etiquette] / D.I. McDonald p11.

DECEMBER 1971: Singleton family [founders of Singleton, between Maitland and Muswellbrook] / H. Torr p1. John West: Tasmanian historian / P.A. Selth p13.

DECEMBER 1972: The improbable culture of Gundaroo / Errol Lea-Scarlett p1. From country to city [impressions of Canberra 1912-1914] / Henry Maitland Rolland p12. Pioneers of Tumut: the Shelley family / Jean Caswell Benson (nee Stacy) p17. Time and timber / A. Campbell Morris p25.

MARCH 1973: Queanbeyan in distaff: some women who helped to shape local history / Errol Lea-Scarlett p1. Yarralumla estate 1881-1913 / D. Vest p25. Man of many parts: Canon A.D. Soares / Ian T. Matheson p33. ‘An excellent programme’: a history of Queanbeyan’s picture palaces [cinemas and theatres] / G.R. McLean p36. The centenary of the ‘Queanbeyan Age’ [newspaper] / R.J.S. Fallick p42.

SEPTEMBER 1973: The making of a translator [Sir Robert Garran] / Hope Hewitt p1. ‘A villageful of occupants’: the Kenmore Hospital for the Insane 1895-1900 / D.I. McDonald p10. Some stories from the Acton Peninsula / Jule Knight p25. George Ashton as I knew him / K.L. Kinsman p30. The memoirs of George Ashton part 1 p35.

MARCH 1974: Frank Gardiner: prince of Tobymen / N. Gow p1. ‘A splendid type of the genuine English gentleman’: Sir Frederick William Pottinger, Bart. 1831-1865 / P.A. Selth p20. Bushranging: the history and the legend / T.J. Barker p54.

SEPTEMBER 1974: Obituary: Eris Michael O’Brien 1895-1974 / N.B. Nairn p93. The Morrison family of ‘Bulga Creek’ and ‘Tralee’ / L.D. Lyons p96. Unlucky country: the Moruya district 1828-1900 / H.J. Gibbney p110. George Ashton: an appreciation / J.H. Kelly p118. The memoirs of George Ashton part 2 p121.

MARCH 1975: ‘Knights of the willow’: cricket in New South Wales in the late 19th century / I. Matheson p1. ‘The Bushman’s Hotel, or the Australian institution’: the hotels of Cootamundra / Jennifer Baldry p4. Harden-Murrumburrah [district]: a brief history / R.A. Littlejohn p16.

SEPTEMBER 1975: Some glimpses of Australian botanical history / G.M. Chippendale p61. George Ashton / J.G. Crawford p67. The memoirs of George Ashton part 3 p69. Autobiography of a bushranger [William Westwood] / introduction and notes by G.T. Dick p92.

MARCH 1976: Obituary: John C. Garran 1905-1976 / D.I. McDonald p1. A secretary looks back: the Canberra University College 1930-1934 / L.D. Lyons p3. Road and land transport in New South Wales / T.J. Barker p16. The story of Hugh Maguire / S. Shumack p24. Two letters of Charles Throsby describing exploration in the Canberra district in 1820-1821 / Ged Martin p28.

SEPTEMBER 1976: Advance Australia [treatise on the Riverina by Menalaus Anderson] p53. The Braidwood-Araluen Goldfields 1851-1871 / Margaret Carron p61. ‘In one man’s lifetime’: William W. Wardell / D.I. McDonald p74.

MARCH 1977: Australia’s first Greeks / Hugh Gilchrist p1. The Canberra Times: to serve the National City and through it the nation / Heather Shakespeare p5. The cathedrals that didn’t happen and the early urban churches of Canberra / R.T. Winch p15.

SEPTEMBER 1977: Sir Robert Garran: a man of many parts / N.G. Francis p37. ‘This essentially wretched asylum’: the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum 1846-1878 / D.I. McDonald p52. Wrecks around the Otway [shipwrecks, Otways, Portland] / A.N. Walls p70. Sir William Portus Cullen: scholar and judge / J.M. Bennett p78.



MARCH 1978: Sir Littleton Groom: forgotten founder / David Carment p1. Asian, European cultures: literature as a bridge? / Manning Clark p8. Queanbeyan early days: doctor’s life, work [Dr Patrick Blackall] / Dr Moya Blackall (Mrs R.G. Bailey) p14.

SEPTEMBER 1978: Wanderings of William Kearns and friends: Currency walkabout of 1822 / H.J. Gibbney p1. Bent-up palings, leather footholds: Kiandra 1861 – where skiing began / Klaus Hueneke p9. Mid-1890s saw ‘significant tourism’: cycling up, down Australia’s Alps / Jim Fitzpatrick p15. Early aboriginal, European occupation: if Ginninderra Creek could speak / Lyall Gillespie p20. Settlement established about 1826: the Palmer family of Ginninderra / Jillian Palmer p26.

MARCH 1979: Old huts of the Snowy Mountains / Klaus Hueneke p2. Canberra design competition of 1911: contender for second place [Henry Caswell] / Alan Benson p8. First race meetings held in 1840s: early recreation, entertainment [horse racing] / Lyall Gillespie p14. Japanese POW breakout at Cowra: the literature assessed / Margot Simington p25. Rejected historians get into print: a ‘self-help’ publishing society / Graeme Barrow p29.

SEPTEMBER 1979: The national capital [Canberra] 1928-1931 / Patience Wardle p2. A Swiss at Araluen [Othmar / Otmar Rietmann] / H.J. Gibbney p12. Aborigines of Canberra and nearby areas / Lyall Gillespie p19. Early travellers to the south / D.I. McDonald p26. Thirty green years 1921-1951 [parks and gardens of Canberra] / Greg Murphy p34.

MARCH 1980: Australia and the Maori Wars / Norman Bartlett p1. The Petrov Affair revisited / D.I. McDonald p7. Harris Hut: experiencing our pioneer past / Garry Mayo p14. Canberra’s cornerstone [Yarralumla Brickworks] / Ian Carnell p19. Growing with the Capital [Westbourne Woods] / Tony Rout p24. Early years of the Albert Hall / Hope Hewitt p31.

SEPTEMBER 1980: Kiandra: goldfield and community / W.C. Stegemann p1. Remember her name with pride [HMAS Canberra] / Margaret Booth p10. Bishop [E.H.] Burgmann, the disturber / R.A. Littlejohn p15. Family history pleasures, pitfalls / Pam Ray p23.

MARCH 1981: Governor’s errors silly, but colossal [Lord Beauchamp (William Lygon)] / John Harris p1. Awful tales of a Canberra ‘pioneer’ / H.J. Gibbney p6. Bounty migrants from Emerald Isle [Irish, Keeffe / Keefe family] / Brian Maher p10.

SEPTEMBER 1981: Founder left his mark on Royal Military College [W.T. Bridges, Duntroon] / C.D. Coulthard-Clark p1. House should be preserved [Yarralumla] / Greg Murphy p10. Convicts and parson: unhonoured and unsung / Ron Winch p11. Lady callers, Canberra daughters, and the barrier of convention / Hope Hewitt p15. From boy convict to Canberra farmer [Edwin Elijah Bambridge] / Allen Mawer p19. Carvings furore underlined cultural cringe in colonial NSW [James Barnet, Signor Sani] / D.I. McDonald p23. Committee’s development seen as response to community wishes [Joint Committee] / John Knight p31. Chinese part of Canberra – Queanbeyan scene since 1863 / Monica E. Tankey p43.

MARCH 1982: John Gale: pressman and Christian humanist / Errol Lea-Scarlett p1. The Soudan donkey at Duntroon / Chris Coulthard-Clark p15. A walk with the early settlers to Wattle Park [Wattle Park Wesleyan Methodist Church] / Ron Winch p18. ‘Enterprising Gaels’ became pioneer pastoralists [Charles and Elizabeth McKeahnie family] / Tony Corp p24. A museum as a memorial [Australian War Memorial Museum] / Margaret Browne and Jeffrey Williams p30.

SEPTEMBER 1982: A prehistorian’s view from the ACT: what future for our past? / John Mulvaney p1. The Westbourne Woods incinerator: whose design? / Greg Murphy p7. To the Falklands for orders / Patience Wardle p9. Lake Bathurst: investigating its history and environs / Allan J. Mortlock p13. Ulrich Ellis: journalist, political agitator, and theorist, public servant and historian / James Belshaw p16. Some reminiscences of Jervis Bay / Geoffrey H. Leslie p23. The heritage of ‘The Road’ / W.C. Andrews p25.

MARCH 1983: The mysterious affair of Lady Franklin’s ’30 plethra’ / Hugh Gilchrist p1. Old Bannaby days 1910-23 / Archdeacon A.W. Harris p5. Pioneering exploits in Canberry station / Allen Mawer p11. Dickson Experiment Station: a case study of changing needs and conflicting priorities in land use in the Australian Capital Territory / Judith Shaw p17. Ward Havard and the Royal Australian Historical Society / D.I. McDonald p28.

SEPTEMBER 1983: The Lalors: from Eureka to Duntroon [Lalor family] / Chris Coulthard-Clark p1. Walter Burley Griffin’s other towns [Leeton, Griffith] / Greg Murphy p5. A look at the early texts of schools in NSW / Hope Hewitt p14. The Australian War Memorial Architectural Competition: ‘a gross injustice’ / D.I. McDonald p19. Ginninderra: a centre of early education / Lyall Gillespie p27. On the non-‘discovery’ of ‘Australia’ / C.C. Macknight p34. Some buildings of the Lachlan Squatting District / Peter Freeman p37.

SEPTEMBER 1984: Nan Phillips: an appreciation / D.I. McDonald p2. The Greek connection in the 19th century / Hugh Gilchrist p3. Mr Lanyon and family [J.H.M. Lanyon] / David Dolan p14. Bodyline and the mystery of the hoax photograph / Graeme Barrow p18. A day out with the Duchess [Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, years at Yarralumla] / Ron Winch p24.

MARCH 1985: Brackenreg lives and times [Brackenreg family] / J.R. Brackenreg p1. What future for historical societies? / R. Else-Mitchell p13. Architect J.S. Murdoch and the Provisional Parliament House / D.I. McDonald p18. The case for an ACT museum / Alan Fitzgerald p26. Life at Mrs McIntyre’s cottage [C.E.W. Bean, Balfour family, Tuggeranong] / D.F. Balfour p30.

SEPTEMBER 1985: Solving the mystery of Australia’s first major civil air disaster [loss of the ‘Southern Cloud’ airliner 1931] / Matthew Higgins p1. A short (but significant) period in Canberra’s music development [the immediate post-World War Two years] / W.L. Hoffmann p7. A tale of two Halls [village of Hall and Hall family] / Ron Winch p17. A crown solicitor of ‘enviable capacity’ and common sense [William Henry Sharwood] / R.L. Sharwood p23. Art and its relevance to the study of history / John Jones p32.

MARCH 1986: Henry F. Halloran: dealer in land and dreams / Greg Murphy p1. The varied history of the School House Museum / Hope Hewitt p9. Official history: does it merit suspicion? / P.G. Edwards p17. A tourist at Gallipoli / Patience Wardle p21. Books and bookshops in early Canberra / Ron Winch p32.

SEPTEMBER 1986: Lights and shadows in the life of John Freeman / F.B. Smith p2. The Royal Australian Naval College’s debt to Admiral [William] Cresswell / Robert Hyslop p7. The inaugural Nan Phillips Memorial Lecture p13. Biography in Australia / John Rickard p14.

MARCH 1987: Canberra in the early government period / M.J.S. Knowles p3. General [J.G.] Legge at Weetangera / Chris Coulthard-Clark p9. Canberra: what’s in the name? / Greg Murphy p14. Reflections on the writing of local history / D.I. McDonald p18. Pitfalls encountered in the practice of family history / Patricia Lay p20. Some Canberra theatre history [theatres] / Maurine Rogers p24.

SEPTEMBER 1987: Wragge’s summit station: the Mount Kosciusko weather observatory 1897-1902 [Clement Wragge] / Matthew Higgins p3. To the end of the world: the early Maltese in Canberra / Queanbeyan / Barry York p16. The history of ornamental tree and shrub planting in the Canberra region / Michael Mulvaney p24. The former Customs clerks: Wollaston and Lockyer [Harry Wollaston; Nicholas C. Lockyer] / D.I. McDonald p32. The historical perspective of Dr H.V. Evatt / C.D. Coulthard-Clark p44.