Issue 293 JUNE 2020: What the little bird didn’t tell me [aboriginal identity, family history, Wimmera] / Lynette Russell p5. Mogullumbidj: first people of Mount Buffalo [social diffusion, response to European invasion and occupation] / Jacqui Durrant p17. Brutal murderer, mentally ill or political martyr: the curious case of James Seery [mental health, capital punishment, Crooked River Goldfield, Gippsland] / John Schauble p39. ‘Independence, thrift and industry’: David Andrade’s turn back to the land in the 1890s [mental health, Australian anarchist-socialist, village settlement program] / Rachel Goldlust p67. Women’s sphere remodelled: a spatial history of the Victorian Woman’s Christian Temperance Union 1887-1914 [gendered public and private spaces] p93. Was the Mahogany Ship built by escape convicts?: questioning Murray John’s hypothesis [Warrnambool, shipwrecks] / Ruurd Snoekstra p115. The death of George Peter Cowper, aged less than three weeks [Wimmera, postpartum depression, mental health, domestic violence] / Marilyn Bowler p131. Letters to ‘Dear Rupert’, 1874-75 [letters of Sir William Clarke (1831-1897) to his family] / Annette Lewis p151. Florrie Hodges: one being brave [1926 Gippsland bushfires, untreated trauma, sequel to John Schauble’s article in December 2019] / Nikki Henningham with Helen Morgan p163. The Tele-Gastrograph [article published on 30 and 31st July 1878, Taranaki Herald in New Zealand] / Charles Lewis p169.

No.294 DECEMBER 2020: Past, last and future summers: how history can help us live on the fire continent [Indigenous fire management, climate change, bushfire] / Tom Griffiths p217. ‘They had little chance’: the Kew Cottages fire of 1996 [institutional neglect and abuse] / Richard Broome p245. The importance of gender and social networks in return migration decisions [letters of the Wilson family 1839-1856, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, family networks]/ Tony Ward p267. The rise and fall of Lady Gillott in Melbourne’s turn-of-the-century society [Lady Elizabeth Gillott, social acceptance and status] / Barbara Minchinton p291. A path of patronage and paradox: the entry of women into the profession of local government administration in Victoria 1900-1920 [Grace McNeill, Eva West, Rose Murphy, town clerks] p319. The warrior as priest: Edmund Herring and the ‘Call to the People of Australia’ / Michael J. Birkner [World War I] p345. Cook’s Point Hicks revisited [debate on location of original Point Hicks, Cape Everard] / Trevor Lipscombe p371. Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and the McMillan photograph [correction of mistaken identity of two men seated with Angus McMillan] / Peter Gardner p383. The famous Mrs Fanny Finch of the Mount Alexander gold diggings [African diaspora businesswoman, 1856 inaugural municipal elections] / Kacey Sinclair p397. The land of the lyre bird in context [regional history of South Gippsland]/ Patrick Morgan p411.

Vol.92 no.1 JUNE 2021: Hamilton Hume Sketch Maps: origins and modern treatment / Martin Williams p5. Transition from tyranny: establishing local government on the Ballarat Goldfields 1851-1856 / Graeme S. Cartledge p33. Principles and Practicalities: the interpretation of Nineteenth-century British Burial Reform in St Kilda Cemetery / Lee Sulkowska p61. Yound Men in a Hurry: how cyslist's death defined early morning in Victoria / John Schauble p81. Family History and the Long View of the Great War / Fiona Gatt p107. She of the Wando [A Tale of Two Scotcmen] / John Poynter p133. Ngamadjidj Encounters with the Tappoc Gundidj: Mount Napier and Buckley Swamp 1836-1841 / Benjamin Wilkie p149. The working environment of Melbourne's Early Gaolers / Anne Marsden and Helen Laffin p163. The disaster at Wilmansrust 12 June 1901: towards an Australian National Outlook / Barry Bridges p177. A.G.M. Michell: inventor of the Trust Bearing / Stephen Phillip p185.


Vol.92 no.2 DECEMBER 2021: Statues: Putting them up and pulling 'em down: the Weston Bate oration [Black Lives Matter protests] / Jim Davidson p233. Vera Deakin in war and peace [Red Cross, Victorian Branch of Anzac Fellowship for Women] / Carole Woods p 255. Encounters in and with the Mallee 1847 - 1849 [J.W. Beilby] / Susan Priestley p273. The legend of 'the Golden Horseshoes of Beechworth': the evidence considered [William 'Tinker' Brown, Browns circus] / Mark Valentine St Leon p295. Conscientious non-compliers: the Vietnam War years [conscription ballot, Simon Townsend] / Geoffrey A. Sandy p331. Henry Johnson: the first identified European settler in the Upper Goulburn River district? [Yea River formerly Muddy Creek] / Lawrie Hall p359. People and place of the Hissing Swan: Kaawirn Kuunawarn, Lake Connewarren, the Weatherleys and 'Connewarran' Station [Hopkins River Mortlake] / Rod Giblett p379. Life after death: the coronial records of a lost Victorian goldfield [Crooked River - Dargo in Gippsland] / John Schauble p397. The Melbourne socialite and the Turkish diplomat: the story of Florence Winter-Irving [Noorilim house Dandenong Road] / Patrick Ferry and Janan Greer p415. A KLM DC-2 Uiver aftermath: Java hosts the Burghers of Albury in 1935 [MacRobertson International centenary air race from London to Melbourne] / Noel Jacking p435. Interpreting an image: diggers on road to Bendigo: S.T. Gill and women on the Victorian diggings / Katrina Dernelley p463. Book reviews: the accidental town : Castlemaine, 1851 - 1861 by Marjorie Theobold / Charles Fahey p469. The ghosts have never left: Victorian gold rush towns and the stories they could tell by John and Marie Watt / Charles Fahey p471. The boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, a biography by Reg MacDonald / Christopher R. Marshall p472. The convent: A city finds its heart by Stuart Kells [Abbotsford Convent] / Peter McPhee p474. Gariwerd: An environmental history of the Grampians by Benjamin Wilkie / Don Garden p477. Pentridge Prison inside out: photographic insights by Adrian Didlick / Richard Broome p479. The vetting of wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein / Terri McKenzie p481. 'My country all gone, the white men have stolen it': the invasion of Wadawurrung Country, 1800 - 1870 by Fred Cahir / Jack Norris p482. Breaking new ground: biographies of women agricultural science students, University of Melbourne, 1942 - 1965 by Helen Billman-Jacobe and Ann Westmore / Nikki Henningham p485. Democratic adventurer: Graham Berry and the making of Australian politics by Sean Scalmer / Charles Fahey p488.

Vol.93 no.1 JUNE 2022: Australian History as Literature, Australian Literature as History: the 2022 Weston Bate Oration / Andrew Lemon p13. Unprotected: Aboriginal, Convict and Poor Women in Colonial Victoria: or how everything bad was made worse by being female / Janet McCalman p31. "A Superior Brand of Men": regional clerks of Court and the Rocky Road to a respectable profession / Elizabeth Wade p47. On the street where I live: walking the Windsor Park Estate / Graeme Davison p99. "Loyally Made for Loyal Australians" industrial heritage, modernity and nationalism at Australian Knitting Mills, Richmond 1910-55 / Chris McConville - shortlisted Victorian Community History Awards 2022 p127. A band of energetic citizens: the Preston-Reservoir Progress Association fights back against Kennett's Neo-liberal reforms / Karin Derkley p153. New South Wales Indigenous Men in Port Phillip / John Daniels p175. Gum-tree gas, soap and candles: the work of civil engineer Godfrey Praagst in colonial Victoria / Ian D. Rae p193. Victorian echoes of the Holocaust / Simon Holloway p207.

Vol.93 no.2 DECEMBER 2022: Milestone of Aboriginal Women's Activism in Melbourne 1930-1980 [lecture] / Prof. Julie Andrews p271. Hugh Anderson, historian & scholar [lecture] / Prof. Frank Bongiorno p283. Not without precedent: two centuries of public health emergencies in Victoria / John Schauble p303. The Great Pandemic of 1918-1919: Pneumonic Influenza in Australia / Anthea Hyslop p333. A grassroots view of Spanish Influenza in Melbourne / Mary Sheehan p349. No mention of the Great Famine: interpreting a gap in Dr John Singleton's autobiographical Narrative / Sylvia Morrissey p375. Historians, citizens and pandemics / Janet McCalman p401. The 1919-1920 Influenza Pandemic in Victoria: primary sources and contemporary published material / Tim Hogan p413. Bringing the states back in [emergency response, "police power"] / Mark Finnane p427. New South Wales - Victorian border communities in the Influenza Pandemic 1919 / Erik Eklund p439. Young voices of the pandemic: the Covid Kids Oral History Project / Lucy Bracey, Fiona Poulton, Sarah Rood, Katherine Sheedy p455.

Vol.94 no.1 JUNE 2023: Opening the Conference / Kwong Lee Dow p16. Vale: Emeritus Professor Richard Joseph Wheeler "Dick" Selleck 1934-2022 / Rosalie Triole p20. Celebrating the three Rs: responsibility, realisation, reflection [150 years of Public Education in Victoria 1872-2022] / Deborah Towns p24. School nomenclature in Victoria: a glossary / Andrew Lemon p40. From National Schools to State Schools in Victoria / Irene Hogan p48. Industrial schools in Victoria 1864-1872 / Russell Spencer p68. The politics on the Victorian Education Act 1872 / Geraldine Moore p92. The arrival of Mr Alfred Deakin [picture and description] p103. Fifteen years after the Education Act: the Democratic Crowd at Spencer Street Station [a pictorial essay] / Alex McDermott p104. 'Open the doors!' - Ellen Mulcahy and the Victorian Education Department from 1873 / Wendy Dick p114. The Church of England Denominational School at Little Eltham / Geoffrey A. Sandy p124. Catholic research to the Education act: a case study / Margaret PAgone p134. Irish Catholic opposition to the 1872 Education Act: the case at Crossley / Helen Doyle p144. Yarra Park State School No.1406, the first 25 years / Ian Hind p154. The effects of the 1890s depression and the reforms it created / Alan Gregory p166. Livingston: a one-teacher school in the Gippsland Hills 1913-1938 / David Harris p170. Beyond three Rs: The seven civic and citizenship ideas of State Schooling in Victoria 1872-1920 / Rosalie Triolo p188. School reading material: a window into society / Lorraine Ling p212. Bendigo School of Domestic Arts: the Nomadic experience 1916-2016 / Michele Matthews p224. Women's Community Leadership: Mother's CLub in the twentieth century / Deborah Towns p238. Making the difference: Victorian Teachers as social activists in the First Half of the twentieth century / Cheryl Griffin p248. Laying the foundation: the 1872 Education Act and Universal Secondary Education / Richard Tees p256. The Victorian Secondary Teachers Association 1953-1995 / Rosemary Feanncis p262. Teaching studenships, student hostels Alan Ramsay House / Amilyn Bowler p276. From migrant to multicultural education / Georgina Tsolidis p288. Education and democracy: ancient and modern / Adrian Johes p298.


Vol.94 no.2 DECEMBER 2023: Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung histories in Eraly Colonial Melbourne: country, ancestors and the management of newcommers / Karen Jones & Rachel Srandfield p315. Protected industries protected men: the dilemmas of wartime service 1939-46 / Bart Ziino & Brad Underhill p333. Lessons from the history: colonial foundations of Criminal LAw in Victoria / Cris Maxwell p353. Return to Wanda Court / Sheila Fitzpatrick p371. Permanence, transience and transformation in traditional Aboriginal dwellings in Southern Australia / Peter Hogg p385. Lost but not forgotten: J.A. Gilfilan's painting of Captain Cook's landing in 1770 / William D. Birch p411. Mining the Yarrowee: environmental change on the Ballarat Goldfield / Susan LAwrance, Peter Davies, Greg Hil, Ian Rutherfurd, James Grove, Jodi Turnbull & Mark Macklin p433. Exhibiting the 'Bible Lands': religious knowledge, popular culture and First World War Memories in 1930s Melbourne / Kathryn M. Hunter p453. A community in crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute 1961-62 / Phillip Deery p473. A panorama of Maldon in 1961 / Derek Reid, Peter Cuffley & David Oldfield p497. Two Marthas (Mrs King and Mrs Baster) / Valda Cole p507. Exodus from Vienna: a Jewish Austrian family's escape from Nazi persecution to a new life in Melbourne / Patrick Ferry & Angus Davison p519. Memoir 1: the turn of today": growing up in a time of war / John Poynter p543. Under the dome: memories of the State Library of Victoria / Graeme Davison p561.