NEWSLETTER 89 - February 2016
McCALMAN LECTURE
Prahran Mechanics’ Institute & Prahran Historical & Arts INSIDE Society present the Annual Laurie McCalman Lecture: Around the Library . . . . Ͳ PMI Press Update ...... ͳ Robin Grow Short History Prize . . . . . ͳ Member Tips & Tricks ...... ͳ MURDER OF A Books Etcetera ...... ʹ
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Congratulations! This newsletter is generously Congratulations to Heather Mutimer of Daylesford sponsored by: Historical Society for taking out this year’s PMI Short Windsor Community Bank® History Prize for her essay ‘A Picture Can Tell a & Prahran Market Branches Thousand Words’ Heather and the Daylesford Historical Society each received $500. ͱͱͱ Chapel Street, The Short History Prize was presented to Heather Windsor VIC ͳͱͱ at the PMI during Victorian History Week by PMI ͵ͱͰ ͳͱͱ www. committee member Peter Wolfenden. windsorcommunity.com.au The essay was published as ‘The story behind the photograph of Edward R. McGuiness’ in the Daylesford Historical Society’s newsletter in February 2014 (which can be found in the library). Details of this year’s Short History Prize can be found on page 3 >>
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2016- Newsletter-Feb.indd 1 4/02/2016 1:16:11 PM AROUND THE LIBRARY
MEMBER NEWS GENERAL NEWS
New Members Vale Welcome to the following Robert Leong We were very sad to hear of the passing of two of our new members who joined Ian MacDermott treasured members in 2015. Barrie Stevens (a member since Sep-Jan: Bill McNee 1998) and Doug Gunn (a member since 1991), both were Sandra Alexander Alan Murphy true gentlemen and our sincerest condolences to their many Gary Bester Mary O’Brien loved ones. Margaret Connell Faye Patrick Some Recent Changes Colin Davis Marianne Preissner A reminder that we are trailing new opening hours Ian Deans Rosemary Pullan (closing Saturdays, but open until 7.00pm on Thursdays). David Duerden Rose Sciardis Some of our events will still occur on Saturdays in 2016 Jacqueline Edge Rosemary Shaw (including the forthcoming McCalman Lecture) so keep an Bob Flanagan Louise Thomason eye out for news of these. Andrew Gibson Cheryl Threadgold From now on our newsletter will be shorter but more Kerryn Gibson Marcia Whetstone frequent and we hope this will make it easier for members Phillip Gray Deborah Wills-Ives to keep informed of the latest PMI news. If you currently Lawrence Johnston Janettie Woods receive the newsletter by post, but have an email address Anthony Hooper Jonathon Yeo and would be happy to receive by email, please let us know John Isherwood Dorothy Zenz - [email protected] The Recent Additions list will be distributed to members via email only. Hard copies will still be available at the Financial Donors Patricia Hogan library. Thank you to the following Margaret McDonald For library users requiring brain food there is now a members who made William McNee basket in the kitchen containing small packets of biscuits for fi nancial donations to the Ray Palmer only 50c. Just leave your coin in the basket. library Sep-Jan: Arthur Payne We really appreciate everyone’s patience as our new Keith Rogers automatic notifi cations has come online. Members now Denis Boundy Nobby Seymour receive an automatic email when a reserved book becomes Philippe de Gail Richard Snedden available to collect, and also three days before an item on Gillian Gengoult Smith Adrian Turley loan is due to be returned. First and second overdue notices (by email or by post) will be sent 14 and 28 days respectively after the due date of an item on loan. ■ Friends of the PMI Book Donors All members and volunteers are cordially invited to Thank you to the following Maureen Jones attend an afternoon tea at 3pm, Thursday 11 February people and groups who Val Kirley in the Moss Room, next to the library for the purpose of donated books to the Wallace Kirsop establishing a Friends Group to handle our secondhand book library Sep-Jan: Mirek Kurcki sales (and other activities in the future, ideas are welcome). Ararat Genealogical Society Sandra Lanteri If you are able to attend please contact Christine (christine@ Australian Natives Charles Lewis pmi.net.au or 9510 3393). If you can’t attend, but would like Association Monash Public Library to register your interest, please do let us know. ■ Pam Baragwanath & Ken Service History Week Lecture James Betty Opie Thanks so much to Brian Hunt of the Cinema & Theatre Barbara Brown Rod Parnall Historical Society (CATHS) for his terrifi c and informative Bayside Library Service Mary-Louise Phillips History Week lecture on cinemas and theatres in Prahran Berwick Mechanics’ Institute Prahran Historical Society and surrounds. Near the lecture’s conclusion Brian invited Bill Bodman & Sue Prior Irene Robinson Mr Bob Flanagan (a Prahran Tech alumnus whose father Judith Buckrich Patricia Ryan worked for Hoyts in the area) to share his interesting Dept of Veterans Affairs, ACT Sherbrooke Foothills Offi ce Historical Society Margaret Dunne St Kilda and Balaclava Sally Edwardes Kindergarten Juliet Flesch Thornbury Primary School Pat Galvin Tony Tibballs Robin Grow Traralgon Historical Society Julia Hamer Anne Vale Don & Jill Hauser Scott Whitaker Jan Holyman Yarra Plenty Regional Library Peter & Dianne Johnson Ursula Zamecnik Above: Gerry Kennedy (President, CATHS), Bob Flanagan and Brian Hunt (CATHS) after Brian’s History Week Lecture Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Newsletter 89 ▪ February 2016 Page Ͳ of ʹ
2016- Newsletter-Feb.indd 2 4/02/2016 1:16:35 PM AROUND THE LIBRARY recollections of attending cinemas and theatres in the local area as a youngster. The lecture was well attended and we very much ancestry library edition appreciate our long and ongoing partnership with CATHS. ■ End of Year Function Thanks to all who attended our end of year member and Recently added to Australian Library Edition: volunteer function in the Moss Room on 5 December. ■ Australia, Commonwealth Public Service Lists, 1904, 1920 For Sale Queensland and Victoria, Australian Directories, 1859-1947 PMI mouse mats and magnifying ruler bookmarks are Australia, Pastoral Directories, 1913-1954 available from the loans desk. Each item $4. ■ New South Wales, Bailliere’s Gazetteer & Road Guide, 1870 Port Stephens, NSW, Area Cemeteries, 1845-2010 Coming Up Queensland, Naturalisation Index, 1851-1904 The Melbourne Centre of International PEN will celebrate Queensland, Police Gazette Index, 1881-1945 International Women’s Day at 6.30pm on Monday, March Queensland, Immigration Indexes, 1848-1972 7 at the Wheeler Centre with a talk from Judy Maddigan Queensland, Hospital Indexes, 1872-1908 (fi rst woman speaker of Victorian Parliament). She will speak Australia, Fox’s History of Queensland about the new Victorian Women’s HERitage Centre. This will Queensland, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876 be a great opportunity to ask her about the new venture and South Australia, Police Gazettes, 1927-1947 about women’s struggle for equality in Australia. ■ South Australia, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1866 Tasmania, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1877 MEMBER TIPS & TRICKS Tasmania, Reports of Crime, 1861-1883 Victoria, Police Gazettes, 1914-1924 Have you tried logging into our new catalogue yet? Victoria, Outward Passenger Index, 1852-1915 Why not have a go? Victoria, Bailliere’s Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1879 1. Go to the catalogue http://library.pmi.net.au/welcome. Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia Employee Records, 1909-1969 jsp (or go to the homepage and click the Catalogue main Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930 menu item on the right Western Australia, Railway Records, 1872-1949 2. Above the main menu type in your email address (if you have more than one email address, make sure you enter You can access Ancestry Library Edition on any of the one you have registered with us). the new public computers at the library, or bring 3. Your initial password is your surname in lower case your own laptop and we’ll show you how to log 4. After you have successfully logged in a welcome note in to the network. ■ appears e.g. ‘Welcome Mr John Citizen!’ 5. Hover your mouse over Catalogue to see a list of sub SHORT HISTORY PRIZE 2016 menu items including Change Password, My Details (which you can update if necessary) and Loans & The PMI invites you to participate in the Reservations. 6. To renew your loans choose Loans & Reservations then Ͷʹ͵ͺ Short History Prize click the word Renew (in red font) next to the loans. If you have any diffi culties logging in and renewing your Prize: $1,000 – $500 for the author(s) and $500 loans, let us know and we will assist by email, over the for the associated historical group. phone, or in person next time you visit. PMI PRESS UPDATE Topic: A historical essay, article or work of a place or an aspect of a place in Victoria, Australia, or a The next submission person associated with a place in Victoria, written deadline for PMI Press is by a member or members of a Victorian historical society or similar organisation. 29 Feb 2016 Closing Date: Friday 26 August 2016 PMI Press is resuming after a two year break for the relocation of the library. There will be only one PMI A panel from Press publication this year, so this could be an excellent the Professional opportunity to have your work professionally published for Historians minimal cost. Association The author of the selected work will receive a 50% judges the prize. discount on publishing and printing costs from our publishing partner BookPOD, plus an additional $500 To download towards publication costs from PMI Press. a copy of the Download a copy of the submission guidelines and form guidelines and from our website at www.pmi.net.au/press and contact entry form, visit: [email protected] if you have any questions about PMI Press. ■ http://www.pmi.net.au/events/#shp
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2016- Newsletter-Feb.indd 3 4/02/2016 1:16:36 PM BOOKS ETCETERA (Notes from publishers’ blurbs)
AUSTRALIAN FICTION NON-FICTION
Detective work / John Dale (2015) Kerry Packer codenamed Goanna in rights and against nuclear weapons, Promise and Dead girl sing (The Darian the Costigan Royal Commission to and as part of a new environmental Richards crime fi les) / Tony Cavanaugh defending his own role in the failure movement. And then there were the (2014) of HIH, Australia’s biggest corporate episodes that left many scratching their Watson’s pier / Joshua Funder (2015) collapse. He was involved in the heads: Joh for Canberra... the Australia What came before / Anna George (2015) unravelling of the Tourang bid for Card... Cliff Young. In The Eighties, Kingdom of the strong / Tony Cavanaugh Fairfax, struck it rich as co-founder of Frank Bongiorno brings all this and (2015) OzEmail, and fought his own hotly more to life. He uncovers forgotten Double madness / Caroline De Costa contested battle for Wentworth. As stories - of factory workers proud of (2015) opposition leader he was duped by their skills who found themselves The secret chord / Geraldine Brooks Godwin Grech’s Utegate fi asco; as surplus to requirements; of Vietnamese (2015) the most tech-savvy communications families battling to make new lives for Salt creek / Lucy Treloar (2015) minister he oversaw a nobbled NBN themselves in the suburbs. He sheds scheme. And now he has assumed new light on ‘both the ordinary and NON-FICTION the leadership of the Liberal Party for extraordinary things that happened to the second time after wresting the Australia and Australians during this Modern love : the lives of John & prime ministership from fi rst-term PM liveliest of decades’. The Eighties is Sunday Reed / Lesley Harding & Tony Abbott. Will Turnbull crash and contemporary history at its best. Kendrah Morgan burn as he has before or has his entire Much has been written about the tumultuous life been a rehearsal for this Ned Kelly under the microscope : lives and art of Heide, but fi nally moment? solving the forensic mystery of Ned the remaining members of the inner Kelly’s remains / edited by Craig circle have entrusted the truth to be The long haul : lessons from Cormick told through this intimate biography public life / John Brumby Do we really need another Ned of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts The Long Haul distils a series of Kelly book? After all, his story is a part romance and tragedy, Modern Love practical lessons on leadership and of Australian folklore and his legend explores the lives of these champions public life from John Brumby’s thirty has been captured in movies, books of successive generations of Australian years in politics. It offers insights into and paintings. The answer is yes, as artists and writers, whose works and the challenges and opportunities this book is unique. It is a rigorous personalities John and Sunday carefully Australia currently faces and argues for look at the forensic science behind curated to suit their artistic tastes and real political reform, a different future investigations into Ned Kelly. In 2009 sexual passions. It is a story of rebellion for our federation and strong leadership the remains of Ned Kelly were dug against their privileged backgrounds in a world in transition.... up at Pentridge Prison and identifi ed and a bohemian existence marked by after an exhaustive forensic analysis extraordinary achievements, intense Railway hotels of Australia: volume by the Victorian Institute of Forensic heartbreak and enduring love, a one - Victoria / Scott Whitaker Medicine. Analysing a skeleton more remarkable partnership that changed The coming of the railway was a major than 130 years old involved processes all those who crossed the threshold event in the history of many towns and such as DNA extraction, 3D facial into Heide and altered the course of art cities across Victoria. This is the story reconstruction, and identifying the in Australia.... behind every railway hotel; and the skeleton by its injuries. However social, economic and political themes in 2011 the Victorian government Born to rule : the unauthorised that have shaped society over the last announced that while it had identifi ed biography of Malcolm Turnbull 150 years. the remains of Ned Kelly, the skull / Paddy Manning long thought to be his, was not, and The highs and lows of Malcolm The eighties : the decade that trans- so another twist in the scientifi c tale Turnbull’s remarkable career are formed Australia / Frank Bongiorno began. Along with an exploration of documented here in technicolour detail It was the era of Hawke and the forensic analysis, this book unpicks by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America’s some of the Kelly myths: Was Ned countless interviews and painstaking Cup and the Bicentenary. It was Kelly illiterate? Did Ned Kelly have a research, it is a forensic investigation perhaps the most controversial decade daughter? It sheds light on more recent into one of Australia’s most celebrated in Australian history, with high-fl ying urban myths does such as having a overachievers. Turnbull’s relentless entrepreneurs booming and busting, Ned Kelly tattoo puts you at risk of energy and quest for achievement have torrid debates over land rights and dying violently? The identifi cation taken him from exclusive Point Piper immigration, the advent of AIDS, a of the remains of Ned Kelly is a to Oxford University; from beating the harsh recession and the rise of the New remarkable story and defi nitely one Thatcher government in the Spycatcher Right. It was a time when Australians worth telling. ■ trial to losing the referendum on the fought for social change - on union See many more new items in our next republic; from defending the late picket lines, at rallies for women’s ‘Recent Additions’ list!
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