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21/1970

RESF.ARCH SCHOOL OF SOCL\1....;s.,ru_~F.S

DEPARTMENr OF li1§_TO~~

ANNUAL REPORT J.969

Professor and Head of Department J.A. La N2uz~, B.A.(W.Aust.), M.A.(Oxon), Litt.D. (M2lb.) [on leave from January to t~ov c r.:be r ]

Professor (General Editor, Australian D. I-I. Pil:c, D. Litt. (Adel. ) [ on leave from Dictionary of Biography) October]

Reader L.F. Fit~h3rdinge, B.A.(Syd.), M.A., B.Li t t .(Oxon) [returned from leave in Aug us t]

Senior Fellows R.A. Golian, M. A. ( Syd.), Ph.D.(Lond.)

N.B. Nairn, H.A. (Syd.), (Australian Dicti or.ary of Biography)

F.B. S:nith, !1. A.(:1e lb.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)

Fellows R. KtL.~r, B.Sc.(Delhi), M.A., Ph.D.(Panj.(I)), Ph .D. (A. :q.u,)

J. E".!dy, S.J., B.A.(?'ielb.), D.Phil.(Oxon)

Senior Research Fellows W. E:i t c , 11. A. {:::lb.) [from February]

P.R. 1':'ly, i'1, A. ( n.z. ) [from February]

Research Fellows J.H. \1-)igt, D:- . phil.(Ki e l), D.Phil,(Oxon)

B. K. c~ Gnis, !1. A. (W,Aust.), D.Phil.(Oxon) [ frc:::i. ;;; ~bruary]

Research Officer H.J. Gib~n~y, E.A.(W.Aust:), (Australian Dictfo:,.-1~-y of Diogrnphy)

Research Associate M.E. I-:c ~c"l , B.A. (Hull), M.A.(Monash), ( j.:'.in ::::~.y ,;ith /,untralian Academy of Scbr..ce)

Research Assistants Joa n Lynra·.m

Nan Phillips (Australian Dictionary of Biography)

Martha F..c'::!. '2 ~'.:"', B.A.(Syd.), M.A.(A.N.U.) (Aul:' t:ralian Die :::'.,.,nar~· of :3iography)

Maya 7 . Sa pie ts, B.A.(A.N.U.), M.A.(A.N.U.) [from J anua ry]

R. Refshauge [from J anuary to March]

Ce l e s t ~ Da videon, M. A. ( N.Z.) [from March t o Ju:i~ ]

SuZ2nne E1~ar. ~ B.A.(Adel.) [from March] (Au~~rnJ.fon Di ctiona ry of Biography) 21/1970 2.

Research Assistants (contd.) Sally M. O'Neill, B.A.(Adel.) [from July] (Australian Dictionary of Biography)

Ann Millar [from June to December)

Introduction

As previously reported, the main work of the Department is research in Australian History, including its British background in the nineteenth century. It is also concerned with aspects of Modern Indian History, and of imperial and comnonwealth history.

The continuing work in connection with the Australian Dictionary of Biography, of which Professor D. Pike is General Editor, is reported upon separately. The joint project with the National Library f or the identification and description of sources in Britain relevant to Australian history generally (the 'Mander-Jones' project) continued and will be completed early in 1970. The A.N.U. Press will publish a guide to these sources.

Staff

Professor J.A. La Nauze was on study leave from January to the end of November From January to August he was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, ~ford. He then spent three months in North America. Papers were given at the Universities of OXford and London, Duke University, Carleton University (Ottawa), -ueen's University (Kingston), the University of Wisconsin, and the University of British Columbia. During his absence Dr R. Gollan was acting-head of the Department.

Mr L.F. Fitzhardinge was also on leave for part of the year returning to the University in August. While on leave he occupied a Commonwealth Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge. In addition to working on sources of importance for his life of W.M. Hughes, he attended and contributed papers to the Recent Commonwealth History Seminar at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, and the Commonwealth History Seminar at Cambridge.

Mr W. Bate of the University of Melbourne, Mr P.R. May of the University of Canterbury and Dr B. de Garis of the University of Western Australia, took up two-year appointments in the Department. As reported in 1968 they expect to complete books on projects which were well advanced before their short-term appointments.

Dr R. Kumar has resigned his Fellowship as from January 1970 to take up an appointment as Professor of Asian History in the University of New South Wales.

Professor F.K. Crowley, of the University of New South Wales, was a Visiting Fellow from January to June.

Students and Seminars

Seven students were working for the Ph.D. at the close of the academic year. Those enrolled during 1969 were D.D. Denholm, K.I. McPherson and G. Osborne.

The following students successfully completed their Ph.D. course during the year: J.H. Tillotson, J.M. Richmond, B.A. Mitchell, H.J.W. Stokes, W.W. Phillips, J.D. Ritchie, B.E. Kennedy, D.E.U. Baker and D.W. Ferrell.

Weekly seminars were held throughout the year, presenting progress results of the work of students and staff, and papers by visitors from overseas and from 21/1970 3. other Australian universities. Close relations with the Department of History in the School of General Studies have been mnintained.

Two conferences, attended by visitors from many parts of Australia and from overseas, were arranged during the year by members of the Department. In January there was a conference on the 1930s depression, the papers from which are being published as a special edition of the Journal of Labour History, to appear in January 1970.

In September there was a Conference on South Asian History which was attended by most of the historians in Australia who teach Indian History as well as visitors from India and the Universities of London and Sussex.

Dr Smith delivered the Hearn lecture in the University of Melbourne, on the subject 'Ethics and Disease in the Nineteenth Century'.

Research Work - Staff

Professor La Nauze continued work on the making of the Australian Constitution.

Mr Fitzhardinge continued with his work on the second volume of his biography of W.M. Hughes. He expects to complete it in 1970,

Dr Gollan continued with his second volume of Radical and Working Class Politics. He hopes to complete it in 1971.

Dr Smith expects to complete his biography of W.J. Linton in March 1970.

Dr J.J. Eddy's book, Britain and the Australian Colonies 1818-1831: the technique of government was published during the year by Clarendon Press.

The 'Essays on the Rowlatt Satyagraha', edited by Dr Kumar is in the press and will be published early in 1970. He continued with his work on 'Working Class Politics in the City of Bombay'.

Mr W. Bate has been working on his history of Ballarat which he hopes to complete during 1970.

Mr May is engaged in a very extensive survey of gold rushes in California, British Columbia, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. He does not expect to complete this in his two years at the University but sees the end of 1971 as a possible date for completion. In the meantime two substantial articles have been accepted for publication: one to be entitled Gold Town will be published in April 1970 by Pegasus Press of Christchurch, and the other, on the origins of hydraulic mining in California, by the Holmes Book Company of Oakland, California.

Dr de Garis is working on the history of the Australian Federation Movement.

Dr Voigt is working on a book on India's Freedom Struggle during the Second World War. He expects to complete it in 1971.

Mr Hoare has continued work on his history of 'Science, Men and Society in Australia, 1820-1888'.

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Professor D.H. Pike has been awarded the Ernest Scott Prize for 1966/67 for his work as General Editor of the first two volumes of the project. The third volume was published in April 1969 and the fourth is well in hand; its completion will leave two more for the 1851-1890 section. Professor Pike left for Cambridge in October where he will be a Connnonwealth Fellow at St John's College until June 1970; in his absence Mr N.B. Nairn is acting General Editor. 4. 21/1970

The South Australia and Western Australia Working Parties have compiled preliminary lists of entries for the 1891-1939 section, volumes 7-12; Working Parties in other states are preparing their lists. Research work is being done in all state capitals as well as Canberra and London, chiefly on current but also on future entries. Contributing authors are co-operating unsparingly.

The Biographical Register is growing and is greatly supplemented by a vast indexed compilation, from newspapers and other sources of reference, of Australians from all walks of life. The Register and index provide an important service to many academics, scholars and general inquirers, as do the several other research collections accumulated in the office of the Dictionary. A valuable product of this work was published in 1969: H.J. Gibbney and N. Burns, A Biographers' Index of Parliamentary Returns (New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria) 1850-1889 (A.N.U. Press).

Mr Nairn delivered the T.D. Mutch Memorial Lecture for the Australian Society of Genealogists on 13 August 1969, on 'William Forster (1818-1882), Premier of New South Wales and man of letters'.

Publications

1 BATE, W.A.

'Murndal', Historic Homesteads of Australia, Melbourne 1969, 132-139.

'Thomas Bent', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press:-T969. x BOLGER, P.F.

'Lieutenant John Morgan: The Dog Tax Martyr', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 55, 3, September 1969, 272-280.

'Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford', 'Thomas James Crouch', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969. 1 EDDY, J.J.

Britain and the Australian Colonies 1818-1831: the technique of government, Clarendon Frees, Oxford:7.969, 344pp.

1 GIBBNEY, H.J.

'Georg Appel', 'William Edington Armit', 'Richard Ramsay Armstrong', 'Baron Herbert Austin', 'Theodore Francis Bevan', 'Charles Bonney', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969.

1 GIBBNEY, H.J and x BURNS, Netta

A Biographers' Index of Parliamentary Returns (New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria) 1850-1889, Canberra, 1969, 180pp.

1 HOARE, M. E.

'Aims and Achievements of the Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science', Bulletin of the Postgraduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney, 24, 11, February 1969, 286-290.

"'Cook the Discoverer"; an Essay by Georg Forster, 1787', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, I, 4, December 1969, 7-16.

A member of the Department of History X Former member. Based on work done while a member of the Department. t 21/1970 5. 7 .ARE, M.E. (contd.)

'Some primary sources for the history of scientific s ocieties in Australia in the nineteenth century', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, I, 4, December 1969, 71-76.

'The papers of Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley K.B.E., F.R.S. ', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, I, 4, December 1969, 67-70.

'"All things are queer and opposite" ; Scientific Society in Tasmania in the 1840's', ~. 60, 2, 202,198-209.

'/ LA NAU%E, J .A.

'A little bit of lawyers' language: the history of "absolutely free", 1890-1900' in A.W. Martin (ed.), Essays in Australian Federation, Melbourne, 1969, 57-93.

x LCM, D.A., x ILTIS, Judith C. and+ WAINWRIGHI', M.D.

(ids.) Government Archives in South Asia: A Guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, 1969, 355+xiipp.

x MITCHELL, Phyllis

'Australian Patriots: a study of the New Guard', Australian Economic History Review, IX, 2, September 1969, 156-178.

1 NAIRN, N.B. and+ ABBarT, G.J.

(Eds.) Economic Growth of Australia 1788-1821, Melbourne University Press, 1969, 361+xpp.

'Sir J oseph Palmer Abbott', 'Robert Palmer Abbott' ,'Bzekiel Alexander Baker', 'Russell Barton', 'Earl of Belmore', 'Peter Joseph Brennan', 'Edward Butler', 'Angus Cameron', 'Edward Combes', 'Walter Hampson Cooper', 'John Cuthbert', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969.

'The 1916-17 Labor Party Crisis in New South Wales and the advent of W.J, McKell', Labour History, 16, May 1969, 3-13.

'The Politics of New South Wales, 1856-1889: A Note on a Reply', Historical Studies, 13, 52, April 1969, 539-44.

1 NORRIS, R.

'Economic Influences on the 1898 South Australia Federation Referendum' in A.W. Martin (ed.), Essays in Australian Federation, Melbourne, 1969, 137-166.

1 O'NEILL, Sally M.

'John Howard Angas', 'Frederick John Henry Bracker', 'Nathaniel Buchanan', 'George Clarke', 'Robert Martin Collins', 'Audley Coote' ,'George Selth Coppin', 'John Costello', 'James Cowlishaw', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969. 1 PHILLIPS, Nan

'Eyles Irwin Caulfield Brown', 'Thomas Clarke', 'James Cowlishaw', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969.

1 A member of the Department of History x Former member. Based on work done while a member of the Department. + Not a member of this University. 21/1970 4 6. t _KE, D.H.

Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, A-C, 1851-1890 General Editor: Douglas Pike Section Editors: N.B. Nairn (A.N.U.) A.G. Serle (Monash) R.B. Ward (New England) Melbourne University Press, 1969, 516pp.

1 RUTLEDGE, Martha

'David Buchanan', 'John Fitzgerald Burns', 'Henry Clarke', 'Henry Copeland', 'Edward Cnarles Cracknell', Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3, 1851-1890, Melbourne University Press, 1969.

'John Fitzgerald Burns - Colonial Treasurer', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 55, 3, September 1969, 262-271.

1 SMITH, F. B.

'A Historian's comments upon Culture and Society', Melbourne Historical Journal, 8, 1969, 30-34. x STEVEN, Margaret J.E.

eh. 7 'Enterprise' (119-135) ,Ch.10 'The Changing Pattern of Commerce' (176-187), Ch.15 'Exports other than Wool' (285-305) in G.J. Abbott and N. B. Nairn (eds.), Economic Growth of Australia 1788-1821, Melbourne University Press, 1969.

1 VOIGT, J. H.

Max Mueller - The Man and His Ideas, Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 1967. Second Edition 1969. llOpp.

Translation of Modris Ekstein's 'Theodor Reuss and the Weimar Republic': Theodor Heuss und die Weimarer Republik. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des deutschen Libernlisnrus, Val.III of 'Stuttgarter Beitrtlge zur Geschichte und Politik', Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, 1969.

H WRIGHT, D. I.

'The Politics of Federal Finance: The First Decade', Historical Studies, 13, 52, April 1969, 460-476.

1 A member of the Department of History ~ Former member. Based on work done while a member of the Department.