2019 APRIL RECENT ADDITIONS Antarctica INSIDE Books Antarctica: Scientific co-operation in the seventh continent / Antarctica .......1 Family History .7 edited by Jo Monie (1990) [donated by Len Regan] Australian Food & Wine ..7 Literature ........1 Immigrants & Australian Literature Australian Immigration ...7 History ............2 Military The War Artist / Simon Cleary (2019) Victoria ...........3 Histories .........7 Jimmy Longtail: An Australian epic / A. Michael Blaire (2018) Other States ....5 Politics & Tasmania.........5 Government ...8 Western Religion ...........8 Australia .........6 Railways & Art & Artists ...6 Transport ........9 Biographies .....6 Reports & Planning .........9 Collectibles & Hobbies ...........6 Sport ...............10 Company Women ...........10 Histories .........7 ABOUT THE PMI 39 St Edmonds Road Prahran VIC 3181 ABN 1316 4635 256 Sec. Lib.: Steven Haby Pres: Dr. Judith Buckrich OPEN: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 9:30am - 4:30pm Thu 9:30am - 7pm excluding public holidays and the Christmas/New Year period. CONTACT T 03 9510 3393 E [email protected] W www.pmi.net.au Prahran Mechanic’s Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2019 APRIL 1 RECENT ADDITIONS Periodicals Australian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR No.410 APRIL 2019: Pioneering photography: Images from the Australian Museum [Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 by Vanessa Finney] / Philip Jones p13. Another country: The first single volume history of South Australia in fifty years [History of South Australia by Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster] / Kerryn Goldsworthy p16. Not. At. All. A grenade of a book in a lolly wrapper [Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn] / Suzy Freeman-Greene p20. Public intimacies: When the personal became political in 1970s Australia [The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia by Michelle Arrow] / Zora Simic p21. Apotheosis of the right: Two takes on Australia’s political terrain [Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The hard right in Australia by Dominic Kelly and Rise of the Right: The war on Australia’s liberal vaules by Greg Barns] / Andrew Browrtjes p33. Back to earth: The original version of Gerald Murnane’s second novel [A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane] / Paul Giles p36. Bete noire [Islands by Peggy Frew] / Bronwyn Lea p38. The common lot [Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith] / Francesca Sasnaitis p39. Stresses [The War Artist by Simon Cleary] / Robin Gerster p41. Elegy and warning [The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson] / Jane Rawson p43. A couple of radicals: Rescuing the Blackburns from other people’s footnotes [The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambition by Carolyn Rasmussen] / Jacqueline Kent p45. Middle way: On the nation-shaping importance of elections [Elections Matter: Ten federal elections that shaped Australia by Benjamin T. Jones] / Lyndon Megarrity p47. Nature’s lap, nature’s book: The Weindorfers on Cradle Mountain [Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story by Kate Legge] / Jared Hore p50. Publisher of the month with Meredith Curnow p60. Arbus & West / Fiona Gruber p62. Two feet / Lee Christofis p63. A View From the Bridge / Maxim Boon p66. Salome / Michael Halliwell p67. Australian History Books Signed by Hand / NLA (2017) Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion / Louise Swinn (ed) (2019) The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia / Michelle Arrow (2019) Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper empires / Sally Young (2019) Quarterly Essay: The worried well: The depression epidemic and the medicalisation of our sorrows / Gail Bell (2005) [donated by Bernard Metcalfe] Country Estates of Australia: Cottages, farmhouses, manors and mansions / Janelle McCulloch (2006) [donated by Bayside Library Service] Australia Remember This Too! / Bob Byrne (2018) Prahran Mechanic’s Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2019 APRIL 2 RECENT ADDITIONS Periodicals Traces: Uncovering the past P 994 TRA Vol.6 2019: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne p8. Cycling through time / Rupert Guiness p10. Young Irelanders in Tasmania Part 2 [William Smith O’Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, John Mitchell, Kevin Izod O’Doherty and Terence Bellew MacManus] p12. The unexpected legacy of McWhirters Department Store / Melissa Fagan p17. How hope was Australia’s true gold / Mary-Anne O’Connor p22. Spotlight on Bendigo: A heritage goldmine / Eden Cox p25. Delving deeper into your ancestry / Caroline Haigh p32. Fiction from genealogy [Garth family] / Lynette McDermott p34. Finding your German ancestors / Kate Hutcheson p37. Mapping your family tree [using State Library of Victoria maps for family history research] / Simeon Barut p39. Visiting your ancestral towns [Thomas North and tracing family in country towns] / Rod North p41. Cantonese connections: The origins of Australia’s early Chinese migrants / Dr Kate Bagnall p43. Alice Anderson / Loretta Smith p46. Finding Mary Bishop / Jon Heppell p48. Missed opportunities [Maggie O’Donoghue, Tom Robinson] / Denys Slee p50. The dark side of the moon: Part 1 [Luna Park] / Roy Maloy p52. The lost white tribes of Australia [survivors of Dutch shipwrecks settling in Australia] / Henry Van Zanden p56. Ghost signs and the stories they tell / Dr Stefan Schutt, Robert Gray and Tobias Nash p59. Dinkum / Jessica Barratt p61. Shrouded house: Collection care at Rouse Hill House & Farm / Rebecca Jones p62. Victoria Books Bendigo The Bendigo & Eaglehawk Tram Lines [DVD] (2013) Castlemaine Castlemaine Bird Walks: A guide to walks and birds in the Castlemaine district / Damian Kelly (2018) Gippsland Is Emu Off The Menu?: Historic homes and recipes of Gippsland / Emu Committee (2007) [donated by Ann Andrew] Llowalong Llowalong Soldier Settlement / Judy Richardson (2019) Melbourne Literary Melbourne: A celebration of writing and ideas / Stephen Grimwade (2009) [donated by Marie Pernat] Spring Gully A History of Spring Gully via Fryerstown / Ken James (2019) Toorourrong Just Add Water: A social history of Wallaby Creek, Toorourrong and Yan Yean Reservoirs / Friends of Toorourrong (2019) Western Melbourne How the West Was One / Karyn Howie and Sue O’Brien (2017) Prahran Mechanic’s Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2019 APRIL 3 RECENT ADDITIONS Periodicals Anglesea Anglesea Historical Society: Coastal current P 994.52 ANGL COA No.122 AUTUMN 2019: Those Magnificent men in their flying machines in Anglesea [First reported flight 15/2/1920 with Pilot Lieutenant Charles Pratt] (Geelong Advertiser 4/1/1921) [Mishap to Lieutenant Charles Pratt’s Avro machine at Anglesea and kewpie mascot stolen] / Jan Morris p4. Moggs Creek 50 years ago / Jane Forster p5. Catalogue item 0652 the joke is on me [Australian Natives’ Association] / Susan Clarke p6. Anglesea Surf Coast Family History Group: Inverlochy log P 994.52 ANGL INV Vol.71 MARCH 2019: It’s not all online - Early hospital records [Alice Rogers, Rees Jenkins, Alfred Davis, William Timms, Henry Girdwood, Robert McKay, Isabella White, Norman McVitty] p4. Mousley Family of Anglesea / Susan Clarke p5. Dandenong Dandenong Historical Society: Gipps-Land gate P 994.51 DAND GIP Vol.47 No.1 APRIL 2019: Retirement of the Gippsland Gate editor-Carmen Powell / Chris Keys p1. Early golf in the district [history of Kingswood Golf Club] p2. Dr Pat Wellington p14. People and places [JWH (Bill) Toon] p30. Harking back 1943 8th September-10th November [Mrs. WHA Rodd, Japanese POW cards, Pte TH Ely, LAC Jack Sadler, Lf Liuet Jack Canterbury, showground damage, EW Corbin and a leaking house, vandalism at sewerage works, Dandenong ACF, Alan Keith Allan p40. Alfred James Gartside] / Ben Pursell p36. Doncaster and Templestowe Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.51 DONC DON MARCH 2019: The Furphy water cart p1. Guest speakers [mines of North East Melbourne with Peter Hanson] / Glenys McIntyre p3. Inverloch Inverloch Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.56 INVE INV No.239 FEBRUARY 2019: Ripple information panels [signage installed and funded by Bass Coast Shire] p2. The Amazon 1863 shipwreck project 15 Nov - 5 Dec 2018 Heritage Victoria a business unit of DWELP [Dr Maddy McAllister has completed her report on this heritage project and provided a copy to the Society ahead of publication and a link will be available on the website an extract is included] p2. Knox Knox Historical Society: Knox historian P 994.51 KNOX KNO Vol.1 FEBRUARY 2019: Bushfires menace homes at the Basin (Argus 29/11/1937) p2. School time memories [Punished left handers] / Ian Bowler p5. School Days [Cadet Corps, weapons used] / Ray Peace p5. The start of another school year [Cuisinaire rods for arithmetic, Infantile Paralysis Epidemic school closures 1938] / Elizabeth Phillips p7. Arbor Day at the Basin (Weekly Times 19/8/1916 and 9/12/1916) [George Puddephat] p8. Black Saturday 7th February 2009 / Amanda Eades p9. Korumburra Korumburra and District Historical Society: Newsletter P 994.52 KORU KOR No.30 MARCH 2019: The Korumburra and Bena state schools (Great Southern Advocate 20/2/1896) p3. The Korumburra excursion [1200 people visited the coal centre at coal creek] (The Age 15/11/1893) p3. Korumburra [Weather and Natural Disasters] (The Australasian 30/4/1898) p4. History of the Arawata Cricket Club / Frank Harrison April 1935, p4. Lilydale Lilydale and District Historical Society: Now and then P 994.51 LILY NOW FEBRUARY 2019: Vale founding and life member Sandy Ross