Issue 1: Celebrating 30 Years of the Victorian Public Records Act / Professor E.W. (Bill) Russell, Original archival research by Charlie Farrugia.

Issue 2: The first years of the Victorian Archives / Professor E.W. (Bill) Russell, Original archival research by Charlie Farrugia.

Issue 3: Foreword: Justine Heazlewood, Public Record Office Victoria p2. Death, Decency and the Dead-House: The City Morgue in Colonial Melbourne / Andrew Brown-May and Simon Cooke p4. Keeping Order: Motor-Car Regulation and the Defeat of Victoria's 1905 Motor-Car Bill / Rick Clapton p21. Home Truths: Stories from the Nineteenth-Century Castlemaine Police Courts / Heather Holst p39.

Issue 4: Editorial: Sebastian Gurciullo p2. Rescuing the Regent Theatre / Louise Blake p4. 'A secure safeguard of the children's morals': Catholic child welfare in 19th century Victoria / Jill Barnard p19. Dallong - possum skin rugs: a study of an inter-cultural trade item in Victoria / Fred Cahir p31.

Issue 5: Colonial law and the shooting of Jim Crow / Barry Patton p4. The trial of James Acoy and the Chinese on the Mount Alexander diggings / Keir Reeves p18. The death of Bertha Coughlan / Zoe Carthew p31. Criminals, prostitutes, vagrants and drunkards: 1920s Carlton / Jessica Stagnitti p47. Researching the history of Prahran Technical School / Judith Buckrich p57. Researching a cricket book / John Leckey p68.

Issue 6: Researching the history of institutional abuse in the archives / Lee-Ann Monk p11. Rethinking the Chinese gold seekers in central Victoria / Keir Reeves and Benjamin Mountford p23. Inquests into Chinese deaths on the Bendigo goldfields 1854-65 / Valerie Lovejoy p39. School and scandal in Mallacoota / Sarah Mirams p57. The growth of the town of Loch and its school / Lyn Payne p71. The use of public records at the Sovereign Hill Museums Association, Ballarat / Jan Croggon p85. The past importance of land ownership as an electoral qualification in Victoria / Sonia Jennings p95. Putting colonial Victoria on the map: the 1862 Land Act and its 'big map'/ Cate Elkner p103. Her Majesty's Collingwood Stockade: a snapshot of gold rush Victoria / Peter Andrew Barrett p109. A stroll along the Merri [Creek]: evoking a landscape through archival research / Abigail Belfrage p117. Very serious doubts: the case of Hassett and De Le Veilless / Alain Hosking p129. Love is murder: the fated affair of Minnie Hicks and Frederick Jordan / Noni Dowling p139. Imperial to metric measures p151.

Issue 7: Italian speakers on the Walhalla goldfield: a micro history approach / Annamaria Davine p11. From mental hygiene to community: psychiatrists and Victorian public administration from the 1940s to the 1990s / Belinda Robson p25. Landscapes of abundance and scarcity on the northern plains / Robyn Ballinger p41. The aboriginal campaign against Caroline Bulmer's eviction from Lake Tyers Aboriginal Station 1913-14 [Caroline Bulmer] / Victoria Haskins p53. The curious case of the Wollaston Affair / Lyn Payne p65. The 'monster' petition and the women of Davis Street / Brienne Callahan p83. Teaching at an Otways outpost / Peter Davies p95. Select applicants for the position of Deputy Registrar for Collingwood in 1864 / Jenny Carter p105. Colac 1857: snapshot of a colonial settlement / Dawn Peel p115. A jewellery manufactory in Melbourne: Rosenthal, Aronson and Company / Ruth Dwyer p127. Northcote High School during the 1930s / Karin Derkley p139. Imperial to metric measures p147.

Issue 8 2009: Editorial i Sebastian Gurciullo About Provenance iii Contributors v Superintendent La Trobe and the amenability of Aboriginal people to British law 1839-1846 / Frances Thiele p1. The case of Peter Mungett: Born out of the allegiance of the Queen, belonging to a sovereign and independent tribe of Ballan / Fred Cahir and Ian D Clark p15. 'The most determined, sustained diggers' resistance campaign': Chinese protests against the Victorian Government's anti-Chinese legislation, 1855-1862' / Anna Kyi p35. Searching for WL Baillieu at Public Record Office Victoria / Peter Yule p50. 'A most difficult and protracted labour case': Midwives, medical men, and coronial investigations into maternal deaths in nineteenth-century Victoria /Madonna Grehan p63. The Royal Oak Hotel, corner of South and Raglan streets, Ballarat / Helen Dehn p75. Nichola Cooke: Port Phillip District's first headmistress / Liz Rushen p87. 'Woods Point is my dwelling place ...': Interpreting a family heirloom / Louise Blake p99. The black sheep: Robert Herdman of Paisley, Scotland and Australia / Marilyn Kenny and Anne Martin p111. The surveying career of William Swan Urquhart, 1845-1864 / Ken James p119. Finding the Chinese perspective: Locating Chinese petitions against anti-Chinese legislation during the mid to late 1850s / Anna Kyi p133. Imperial to metric measures p141. Call for papers p143.

Issue 9 2010: 'Where Fire Risks are Great': Tale of Arson, Bureaucracy and the Schoolyard /Kirsten Wright and Antonina Lewis p1. Family and Social History in Archives and Beyond / Kath Ensor p13. Reading Insanity's Archive: Reflections from Four Archival Sites / Catharine Coleborne p29. The Turbulent History of Our Cookery Book / Alison Wishart p43. Everything Changes: Piecing Together Evidence for a Story of Loss and Absence / Janet Marles p57. Victoria Police Involvement in the Infant Life Protection Act 1893-1908 / Helen D Harris p69. Stucco and Shopping: Melbourne's Nineteenth Century Commercial Terraces / Christine Graunas p79. What Happened to the Camels of the Burke and Wills Expedition? / Donna Bourke p95. The Demise of Bicycle George: A Life of Crime / Kirstie Close p109. Imperial to metric measures p119. Call for papers p121.

Issue no.10, 2011: Looking for Azzopardi [Richard Pennell, Giuseppe/Joseph, Kristen McKenzie, John Dow, Smyrna, Izmir, Rosa Sluyk, Richard Brant, "the Maltese convict", William Ballantine, Adrian Dingli, Sir James Graham, Maitland, Thomas Connell, The Chief Secretary's files, the police files, the Azzopardi enquiry, Azzopardi's new family, acknowledgements, endnotes] part 1. Losing the plot [archaeological investigations of prisoner burials at the Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison, Jeremy Smith, Colin Ross, Frederick Deeming, Frances Knorr, 'baby-farmer', Ned Kelly, Ronald Ryan, Working Men's College, Argus, Josia Holdsworth, Charles and Leslie Brown, excavations at Pentridge, Terra Culture, Catharine Tacker, 'Pentridge Village', Ned Kelly's skull, Tom Bexter, Colin McKenzie, Ann Jones Inn, the missing mass grave, postscript, endnotes] part 2. Situated among the gum trees [the Blackburn Open Air school, Dr Sarah Miriams, Waldeschule, forest school, Dr Bernhard Bendix, Hermann Neufert, Mrs Keast, 'puny' children, Charlottenburg, Forest School, Martin Lawn, 'eskimo suits', 'Trotter', 'the vivacious young Australian', Miss Alice Trant, Mrs Dorothy Hamilton, endnotes] part 3. John Sweeny and the making of an Australian farming landscape, a micro-level study of Baulkamaugh and Katunga 1877-1955, Charles Fahey [land settlement records, turning bush into farms, learning to farm on the plains, a stable system of farming, land holders in the parishes of Baulkamaugh and Katunga, farm turnover in Bailkamaugh and Katunga, conclusion, endnoted] p4. The search for a certain cure - doctors, drunkards and Victoria's committee of inquiry 1901 [Susanne Davies, problem with drunkenness, the committee and the curers, those in need a cure, experimenting with change, endnotes] p5. The trouble with Otway maps - taking up a selection under Land Act 1884 [Barbara Minchinton, location guide showing areas in the State of Victoria, the Cape Otway district map of 1865, Malcolm Taylor's list-map, the First Land Act 1884 selection map: pastoral, the Second Land Act 1884 selection map, amendments to the Second Land Act 1884 selection map, pastoral classification versus agricultural and grazing, the Third Land Act 1884 selection map, the survey process, the Land Act 1890 selection map, the legacy of the maps, endnotes] part 5. in pursuit of the Kelly reward - an examination of application to join the hunt for the Kelly gang in 1879 [Brett Write, the Kelly outbreak, the Kelly reward, endnotes] part 7. Local history from 8000 miles away - early Colac records in the United States of America [Arthur Mitchell Fraas, Colac] part 8. Campbell and Woolley's store [Joan Hunt, Henry Anderson, William Cross Yuille, Ballarat, Buninyong, Round Water Holes, Alfred Woolley, endnotes] part 9. Little Latrobe Street and the historical significance of Melbourne's laneways [Fiona Poulton, case study, occupation and land use, heritage significance, endnotes] part 9. Thomas Joshua Jackson of Yong and Jackson's hotel [Andrew J Kilsby] part 10. Exhibiting PROV at the Old Treasury Building [Kimberley Meagher, Jill Barnard, digging in the repository: Kimberley Meagher's prospective, interpreting the discoveries, endnotes] part 11.

Issue no.11, 2012: Lowe Kong Meng and Chinese engagement in the international trade of colonial Victoria [Paul Macgergor, introduction, Chinese goldminers, trading activity, Asian/Indian ocean British-Colonial origins, French connection, British ascendancy, the nature of the imports, Chinese merchants, international gold trade, the wider social context of trade, endnotes] part 1. In future, only female teachers [staffing the Ramahyuck mission school in the nineteenth century, Dr Felicity Jensz, Friedrich Haganauer, Ramahyuck as a Mission 0school, a government school, the teaching staff of the de-classified school, conclusion, list of teachers 1864-1901, endnotes] part 2. The state of feelings in the district [an 0attempt to resist central control after the 1872 Education Act, Carolyn Woolman, 'free compulsory and secular', Baringhup state school no.1687, David Marshall, James Service, Mr Bolam, Matthew Bryant, outcome of the inquiry, endnotes] part 3. The Crown and Kangaroo Victorian flags [John Rogers, inauguration of the Victorian Flags in 1870, 1865 Victorian flags, 1856 Victorian flags, conclusion, endnotes] part 4. Mud, sludge and town water [civic action in Creswick's Chinatown, Elizabeth Denny, finding the Chinese community in early Creswick municipal records, petitions and civil actions, the petitions from the Black Lead, Black Lead Camp, lack of infrastructure on the Black Lead, living in a mining district, the Chinese community in Creswick, Chinese residents move to the Black Lead, Black Lead Chinatown, town water, extending the water to the Black Lead, the Black Lead petitioners, Hannie Kay, the women who signed the petitions, conclusion: changes in the Black Lead community after 1873, endnotes] part 5. 'New history from below' captured within the records of the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre [Dr Michelle Matthews, female correspondents, 'petition of the people', court records, racism, conclusion, endnotes] part 6. A case of arson [investigating the fire at the Steiglitz Coffee Palace in September 1895, Mary Daley, persons in the report, the investigation, the judge's report of the trial, petitions, Mabel Gill, the Crown prosecutor, Joseph Francis Gill, Ella Hicksh, questions still unanswered, endnotes] p7. Making their case [archival traces of mothers and children in negotiation with Chile Welfare officials, Dr Shurlee Swain, 'The Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1864', ward registers, Chief Secretary's correspondence, 'children of the state', endnotes] part 8.

Issue no,12, 2013: Improving access to Victoria's Historical Child welfare records [Frank Golding, Dr Cate O'Neill, Natasha Story, introduction, 'Forgotten Australians', Children's Ward Registers - the official record, other places to find your story, new contextual framework, 'The Charity Organisation Society', 'Find & Connect Victoria', putting records to new purposes, 'Victoria Police gazette', the role of archives in restorative justice, conclusion, endnotes] part 1. The mystery of the cottage in Burnley park [Lee Andrews, the search begins, tracing the story back to Melbourne's beginnings, the old hut and the Survey Paddock, the puzzle of the Two Murphys, an attempt is made to procure a new dwelling, Clement Hodgkinson and the Survey Paddock, a new hut and a Third Murphy, a new "Lodge" for new park, what's in a name?, ranger Murphy and 'his house', a drawing is found, a 'tiny architectural gem', a rare example of a once common feature, endnotes] part 2. Piggoreet [a township built on gold, Joan Hunt, Herbert Swindells, Golden Horn Gond Mining, endnotes] part 3. Point of view [a significant regional industrial dispute from Novel perspective, Kathryn M Steel, strikes, the worsening of the dispute, power restrictions imposed, intervention of Bob Hawke and ACTU, return to work and restrictions lifted, endnotes] p4. Convicted and neglected [researching Victoria's Wards of Star Records 1864-1961, Charlie Farrugia, 'Children's Maintenance Act 1919', endnotes] part 5. The Pope House, Williamstown [a case of Adverse Possession in 1840s Melbourne, Fay Woodhouse, Hobson's Bay council, early Melbourne and Williams' town, the marriage of James Cain and Jane Williamson, 1855 Plan of Williamstown, the sudden death of James Cain, unravelling the mysteries of Land Titles in Victoria, Old (General Law) system, The Torrens system, the first occupier Williams Pope Shipwright 1842, the successful claim of Adverse Possession 1887, endnotes] part 6.

Issue no.13, 2014: Maroondah Reservoir park [the creation of a monumental landscape, Lee Andrews, introduction, beginnings of the Maroondah Scheme, 'the public health is my reward' - the closed catchment policy, a decision is made to build a massive structure, Maroondah Reservoir - a closed catchment experiment, a fine tourist attraction, 'a true picture of Dante's inferno', designing an enclosure for the public, planting Maroondah Reservoir park, Hugh Linaker - the leading landscape designer of his generation, Linaker's grand forest landscape, planting in the catchment, tourism flourishes, a successful experiment, consolidation of the landscape: World War II and beyond, conclusion, endnotes] part 1. Paper ambassadors [letterheads and the iconography of urban modernity, Associate Professor Andrew J May, Stephen Banham, Christine Eid, introduction, civic and corporate identity, business and industry, transport and communication, entertainment and leisure, society and identity, the letterhead as design, conclusion, endnotes] part 2. Playing the Ghost [Ghost hoaxing and supernaturalism in late Nineteenth-century Victoria, Dr David Waldron, Galloway movement, endnotes] part 3. The Scots at Springdallah [Dr Janice Croggon, Joan Hunt, Emu Hill, Moppiananum, Piggoreet West, Scottish miners, endnotes] p4. Preparation for death [the story of Francis O'Brien, Mildura High School Headmaster and family annihilator, Lee Hooper, a family massacre, 'what have I done?', the King v Frank O'Brien, becoming Flinn, familicide in Australia, the system, in the end, endnotes] part 5. Battle to Farm [excavating land files of the Wold War I Discharged Soldier Settle Scheme from within Closer Settlement files at Public Record Office Victoria, Charlie Farrugia, records - to make more accessible, developing and understanding of the records, applying the knowledge gained, endnotes] part 6. The legal profession in Colonial Victoria [information in Records of Admission Held by Public Records Office Victoria, Richard Harrison, background, institutional context, key PROV records, attorneys (1841-1891), barristers (1841-1891), barristers and solicitors from 1892, legal education: colonials and others, demographics of the profession, sex and age, ancestry, possibilities for further research, endnotes] part 7.

Issue no.14, 2015: She had always been a difficult case…' [Jill's short tragic life in Victoria's institutions 1952-1955, Dr Cate O'Neill, introduction, from Royal Park Depot to Pentridge prison, institution for neglected children, 'unruly girls', the shift towards a 'professional;' system, 'Pentridge girls', the politics of child welfare, 'why have i been forsaken?', Children's Court Act, reflecting on Jill sixty years later, endnotes] part 1. Reading the papers [the Victorian Lands Department's influence on the occupation of the Otways under nineteenth century land Acts, Barbara Minchinton, Victoria Cape, Nicholson Act, grazing leases - 'permission to ring', Lands Department, fencing, the Crown Lands Bailiffs, reading the paper trail, endnotes] part 2. Historical maps, geographic information system (GIS) [and complex mining landscapes on the Victorian goldfields, Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence, Jodi Turnbull, gold and water at Beechworth, Ovens goldfield, resources and methods, water merchants, Donald Fletcher, John Martin Dietrich Pund, water races and historical GIS, endnotes] part 3. "...From squalor and vice to virtue and knowledge...' [the rise of Melbourne's Ragged School system, Amber Graciana Evangelista, Hester Hornbrook, Evangelials, the Hornbrook Ragged schools, schooling the 'Little pariahs' of Collingwood, Prahran and 'Little Lion', Prahran and Cumberland Place, 'a ragged school without a name', a slow decline, endnotes] part 4. Lithium and lost souls [the role of Bundoora Homestead as a repatriation mental hospital 1920-1993, Cassie May, Bundoora Park, Mental Treatment Act 1915, Bundoora Cconvalescent Farm, Wilfred Collinson, Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO, Henry 'Lofty" Cannon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, endnotes] part 5. Beyond failure and success [the soldier settlement on Ercildoune Road, James Kirby, narratives of failure: the historiography of soldier settlement, ill health, unfavourable markets and poor land, two personal histories: the stories of Mary Hendersona and John Moodie, a local history: the founding of a community on Ercildoune Road, conclusion, endnotes] part 6. 'Doing their bit helping make Australia free' [mothers of Aboriginal diggers and assertion of Indigenous rights, Patricia Grimshaw, Hanna Loney, Ada Austin, Bessie Rawling, Eliza Saunders, endnotes] part 7. An innocent Pentonvillian [Thomas Drewery chemist and exile 1821-1859, Dorothy Small, endnotes] part 8. John Jones [a builder of early West Melbourne, Dr David J Evans, early years, tracing John Jones's buildings, Jones's properties 1873-1892, St David's Hall, Melbourne Welsh Church (completed 1893), Jones family history, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 9. Military exemption courts in 1916 [a public hearing of private lives, Jennifer McNeice, voluntary recruitment, war census and call to arms, conscription plebiscite and call up, exemption courts, sample records, public perception, conclusion, endnotes] part 10. The families of World Ward I veterans [mental illness anet Lynch, the struggle of disable soldiers who returned home, shell shock and post-traumatic sterss disorders among veterans, advocating for veterans at Mont Park Military Hospital, endnotes] part 11. Who says 'you can't change history'? [Jacquie Browne nee Keown, my beginning: family life in the'burbs, radical u-turn of my family life, saving Grace: family to rescue, PROV back in my life with a 'vengeance'!, preamble to PROV small achievements, one little old lady, a milestone celebrating and honouring my research, fast forward to and from searching, coincidence or invisible familial threads, cross-checking begins, inquests: a mixed bag, inquests: institutional life and deaths, building the jigsaw story, family coming and going, definite belonging, familiar files take me back to mum, renewed and new sense of family and belonging, what a game changer for mum and me!, endnotes] part 12.

Issue no.15, 2016-17: One woman's creche is a bureaucrat's child-mining centre ['The Flat' at Footscray High School 1976-1986, Miranda Francis, interviewee Therese Keys, 'it was a little home': Therese introduces Footscray High School creche, child minding legislation, child minding centre files, 'last-ditch move to attract teachers': establishing the school creche, conclusion, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 1. Beyond Coranderrk [station era Aboriginal political resistance in the Victorian archives, Tiernan Morrison, the Aboriginal stations, Coranderrk, political resistance on the stations, 'laziness', family and kinship, conclusion, endnotes] part 2. The Victorian railways strike of 1950 [a study in public sector enterprise bargaining before its time, Geoffrey Robinson, the railways in crisis, arbitration and the railways, railways unionism, the overtime issue, before the conciliation commissioners, the trial of strength, the Victorian Government intervenes, conclusions, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 3. Quarry and stone research methods [looking for holes in history, Susan Walter, getting started, quarrying on private land, quarrying for railways on public land, quarrymen and working conditions, finding technical data, conclusion, acknowledgement, disclaimer for aerial photography, endnotes] part 4. World War I on the home front [the city of Melbourne 1914-1918, Nicole Davis, Nicholas Coyne, Andrew J May, the collection, the home front, a city-based view, conclusion, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 5. Finding Thomas Brookhouse [locating the nineteenth-century Western District rural working class through public records, Lisa Hay, settlement at Port Phillip, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 6. Mary (Molly) Winifred Dean 1905-1930 [the murder, inquest and abandoned trial, Dr Eric J Frazer, finding a murder, living on through fiction and fact, professional and personal insights, suspects and acquaintances, the 'trial' and thereafter, concluding remarks, endnotes] part 7. The battle for Bears Laggon [Richard Turner, settler: Joseph Doody, squatter: John Ettershank, consequences of the Land Act 1869, political and land reform, conclusion, endnotes] part 8. The search of Maltese troublemakers and criminals in Australia [Yosanne Vella, research focus, Maltese migration to Australia, looking for criminals, involvement in World War I, common criminal patterns for women, Maltese women in the early twentieth century, Maltese male criminals in Australia, conclusion, endnotes] part 9.

Issue no.16, 2018: The Big Hill murder and the colonial death penalty [Dr John Waugh, imprisonment and release, conclusion, endnotes] part 1. ICI House and birth of discretionary tall building control in Melbourne 1945-1965 [Giorgio Marfella, introduction, PROV and Melbourne's post-WWII tall buildings, a new building for Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand, business abhors a vacuum, regulations and the course of business, the principle of site density, a more 'scientific' approach, special provisions, private value and public benefit, conclusion, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 2. Common to all miners [the Inglewood Gold Field common, Karen Twigg, Susan Lawrence, introduction, historical context, gold fields common in colonial Victoria, Inglewood Gold Field Common, conclusion, endnotes] part 3. 'The smallpox on Ballarat' [nineteenth-century public vaccination on the Victorian goldfields, Dr Nicola Cousen, smallpox inoculation and vaccination, the Victorian Compulsory Vaccination Act 1854 and the public vaccinations, the public vaccinations of Ballarat, Central Board of Health measures against the spread of smallpox, outbreak fears in Ballarat, the press and public health awareness, acknowledgements, endnotes] part 4. The notorious Michael O'Grady [Big Mick in early Melbourne, Lauren Murphy, Michael Grady, endnotes] part 5. Dating Melbourne's cesspits [digging through the archives, Barbara Minchinton, cesspit construction, the boards of health and the inspector og nuisances, conclusion, acknowledgement, endnotes] part 6. The Best Land Act [hope and despair at Merton, Jennifer McNeice, introduction, legislative background, Application of Section 32, Conditions for lease, married women, Application of section 42, public or mining purposes, cultivation and improvements, occupation, rents, limit of holdings, the best approach, Merton landholder's meeting, the Best Land Act 1898, bushfire, sickness and death, land classification, hardship, conclusion, endnotes] part 7. Ethel [Kath McKay, Wilkinson, Edwin Worrall, a case of rape, William McKay, endnotes] part 8.

Issue no,17, 2019: Giving birth in the bush [colonial women of Victoria and the challenges of childbirth 1850-1880, Janine Callanan, locating the personal in public records, childbirth: a dangerous activity, coronial inquest reports: narratives of family tragedy, Annie's story: birth and death registrations, local and family history sources, Ann's story: civil registrations, passenger records, family history sources and newspaper reports, conclusion, endnotes] part 1. Attitude to wife beating in colonial Victoria [the case of Elizabeth Scott, husband murderer, Emma Beach, attitude to marriage, judicial records, public perception, moral values and the law, Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS), adultery and the law of coverture, three stages of Battered Woman Syndrome, stage one: a period of mounting tension, stage two: an acute battering incident, stage three: a period of loving contrition, learned helplessness, flight of femininity, sentencing and execution, the problem remains, endnotes] part 2. A visit to Lizzy and Miss Mac [memories of the State Savings Bank of Victoria Head office, Peter Andrew Barrett, sale of the State Saving Bank of Victoria to the Commonwealth Bank, endnotes] part 3.

Issue no.18, 2020: Deleting freeways [community opposition to inner urban arterial roads in the 1970s, Dr Sebastian Gurciullo, roads equals transport, the 1969 Melbourne Transportation plan and study, city ring-road - the first freeway deletion, community opposition to the F2, responding to community concerns and fear of electoral backlash, deleting the F2, endnotes] part 1. The Bibbs map [who made it and why?, Barbara Minchinton, what was the purpose of the Bibbs map?, where is the Bibbs map located?, who made the Bibbs map? Clement Hodgkinson's preparatory sketches and other plans, dating the survey for the Bibbs map, who was Bibbs?, when was the Bibbs map lithographed? did Thomas Franklin Bibbs compile 'the Bibbs map'?, conclusion, how to correctly reference the Bibbs map, endnotes] part 2. 'Untimely ends' [place, kin and culture in coronial inquests, Andrew J May, work and occupation, place and local history, race, kith and kin, conclusion, endnotes] part 3. Parish plans as source of evidence of Aboriginal land use in the Mallee back country [John Burch, Ian D Clark, Fred Cahir, Aboriginal land use in the Mallee back country, VPRS 16306 Record plans ('put away' and 'current'), initial inspection, 1 - Land purchased by squatters, 2 - grazing blocks under the 1883 Mallee Pastoral Leases Act, 3 - pre-agricultural settlement land assessments, 4 - pre-agricultural settlement parish plans, 5 - township plans, 6 - post-agricultural settlement parish and township plans, detailed investigation, case study, conclusion, endnotes] part 4. Witnessing the familial insights from inquest depositions and minding gaps, Helen Morgan, endnotes] part 5. Howard R Lawson [the architect who built, Virginia Blue, how rumours almost became architectural history, the tagline that came to define the rumour, recycling: pioneering Melbourne warehouse conversions, solving the servant problem, the architect and respected expert emerges, the famous tagline appears, tagline as sulking response?, was Lawson as architect?, endnotes] part 6. Rowville's Italian prisoners of war [Darren Arnott, March 1946, unsettling stories about the hostel, in the press, break-out 5000 planned: Italian POW mutiny that fizzed out, military court of enquiry, further enquiries: foolishness and larking, Major Archer's findings, the coroner's inquest, confiscated items and missing iron sheets, justice Simpson's inquiry, courts martial and charges laid, after internment, endnotes] part 7.

Issue 19 2021: "Therapeutic labour and the sanatorium farm at Greenvale (1912–1918) / Rebecca Le Get p9. Matters of life and death: girls’ voices in nineteenth-century coronial inquest files / Catherine Gay p20. Policing gender nonconformity in Victoria: 1900–1940 / Adrien McCrory (shortlisted Victorian Community History Awards 2022- won history article award) p33. Ross, Fraser & Patience: infrastructure builders at the turn of the twentieth century / David F Radcliffe p44. Restoring the archival perspective: ‘parish and township plans’ held by Public Record Office Victoria / Charlie Farrugia p55. Nasty talk: anatomy of the first wife murder in the new colony of Victoria [Patrick Kennedy murdered Mary Kennedy nee Costello] / Christina Twomey p66. Affect and the archive [engagement with the archives, microfilm and digitisation] / Amanda Lourie p71.

Issue 20 2022: The two fishery inspectors: managing the Victorian fishery, 1885-1894 / David Harris p9. Reclaiming the slums: the Housing Commission of Victoria's plans for inner Melbourne / Dr Sebastian Gurciullo p22. Discovering an archive [Mission to Seafarers volunteer group Ladies Harbour Lights Guild (LHLG)] / Lucinda Horrocks p33. The story of Mrs H, case number 35: a victim of smallpox or fear? [Sarah Hanks, resident of Walhalla and victim of smallpox] / Meaghan McKee p43.