RECENT ADDITIONS JULY 2015 Items marked * donated by Professor Wallace Kirsop Australian Literature INSIDE Miles Franklin Award long list 2015 : we now have the following from the long list: Australian Literature . 1 The eye of the sheep / Sofi e Laguna (winner) Australian History . 1 When the night comes / Favel Parrett Golden boys / Sonya Hartnett Victorian History . 1 The golden age / Joan London Other States . 5 After darkness / Christine Piper Biography . 5 Tree palace / Craig Sherborne In certain circles / Elizabeth Harrower Military History . 6 The lost child / Suzanne McCourt Periodicals . 6 Nest / Inga Simpson ABOUT THE PMI Other novels added this month: 39 St Edmonds Road Rooms in the city : a novel / by Nicholas Hasluck 2014 Prahran VIC 3181 Forever young / Steven Carroll 2015 ABN 1316 4635 256 Relativity / Antonia Hayes 2015 Sec. Lib.: Tim McKenna In the quiet / Eliza Henry-Jones 2015 Pres: Cr John Chandler OAM The strays / Emily Bitto 2014 The girl with the dogs / Anna Funder 2015 CONTACT The odd angry shot / William Nagle (1975) ; introduced by Paul Ham 2013 P 03 9510 3393 The only case : a novel (mystery) / by Ian Callinan 2014 E [email protected] W www.pmi.net.au Australian History The Arunta : a study of a stone age people / by Sir Baldwin Spencer and the late F.J. OPEN: M-F 9.30am-4.30pm Gillen (2 vols) 1927 [donated by Berwick Mechanics’ Institute] Sat 9.30am-1.00pm Humanities Research Centre : a history of the fi rst 30 years of the HRC at the excluding public holidays. Australian National University / Glen St. John Barclay and Caroline Turner. 2004 * The land of plenty : Australia in the 2000s / Mark Davis. 2008 * Spinning the dream : assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 / Anna Haebich. 2008 * The kookaburra : a pictorial celebration of Australia’s-best-loved bird / Toby & Juliana Hooper. 1991 * Whackademia : an insider’s account of the troubled university / Richard Hil. 2012 * HIH : the inside story of Australia’s biggest corporate collapse / Mark Westfi eld. 2003 * Tales from a suitcase [immigration] / Will Davies & Andrea Dal Bosco. 2001 * Behind the Exclusive Brethren / Michael Bachelard. 2008 * Moran v Moran / by Murray Waldren. 2001 * Books for sale Wild colonial boys : tall tales and true Australian Bushrangers / Geoff Hocking [donated by Ian Harris] Called to pray : a history of the Benedictine Community of Christ the King / Lesley Florence Preston [donated by Lesley Preston] The road to Emmaus : a history of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation in Australia / Damien Cash [donated by St Francis’ Church Blessed Sacrament Congregation] Lost in the whitewash : Aboriginal-Asian encounters in Australia, 1901-2001 / edited by Penny Edwards and Shen Yuanfang. 2003 * The political dice men [Australian political environment in the 1960s and 1970s] / [by] Peter Blazey [and] Andrew Campbell. 1974 * Australia, Britain and the EEC, 1961 to 1963 / [by] H. G. Gelber. 1996 * The bold riders : behind Australia’s corporate collapses / Trevor Sykes. 1996 * Celluloid Anzacs : the Great War through Australian cinema / Daniel Reynaud. 2007 * Australia and the great depression : a study of economic development and policy in the 1920s and 1930s / / by C. B. Schedvin 1970 * Sweethearts of rhythm : the story of Australia’s all girls bands and orchestras to the end of the Second World War / Kay Dreyfus. 1999 * Drug traffi c: narcotics and organized crime in Australia / [by] Alfred W. McCoy. 1980 * Dark victory [politics] / David Marr and Marian Wilkinson. 2003 * Society, schools and progress in Australia / / by P.H. Partridge. 1973 * Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ July 2015 Page 1 of 6 2015 Recent Additions.indd 1 5/08/2015 11:07:40 AM RECENT ADDITIONS A great and powerful friend: a study of Australian American relations between 1900 and 1975 / Norman Harper 1987 * Firepower : the most spectacular fraud in Australian history / Gerard Ryle. 2009 * The New conservatism in Australia / edited by Robert Manne. 1982 * The Wasted years? : Australia’s great depression / edited by Judy Mackinolty 1981 * The Dunera affair : a documentary resource book / edited by Paul R. Bartrop with Gabrielle Eisen. 1990 * Never give in : three Italian antifascist exiles in Australia, 1924-1956 / V.G. Venturini 2007 * The great Labor schism : a retrospective / edited by Brian Costar, Peter Love & Paul Strangio. 2007 * Children and the state : social control and the formation of Australian child welfare / Robert van Krieken. 1992 * The world’s longest taxi fare : Geelong to Darwin and return in Charlie Heard’s Hudson / Larry O’Toole 2014 Kiwanis in Australia : a history of the extension of Kiwanis in Australia / Edwin C. Maskiell 1989 [donated by Berwick Mechanics’ Institute] Tracking down the bushrangers / Peter C. Smith 1982 [donated by Berwick Mechanics’ Institute] Driving force : the history of the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia 1883-1992 / Bradley Bowden 1993 [donated by Berwick Mechanics’ Institute] AV Jennings : home builders to the nation / Roy Edwards & Vic Jennings with Don Garden 2013 A far cry : town crying in the antipodes / Anne Doggett 2015 Australia’s boldest experiment : war and reconstruction in the 1940s / Stuart Macintyre 2015 Victorian History The development of tertiary education in Victoria, 1963-1972 : report and recommendations of the Committee for Development of Tertiary Education in Victoria. 1963 * The Melbourne miracle : Dora Bartels and the Canonisation of St Peter Julian Eymard / Damien Cash [donated by St Francis’ Church Blessed Sacrament Congregation] Coastal guide to nature and history part 2 / Graham Patterson 2015 [donated by Graham Patterson] Victoria and its metropolis : past and present / by Alexander Sutherland ; R. L. J. Ellery ...[et.al.] 1888 [donated by Jo Osment] The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852 : historical, anecdotal and personal / by “Garryowen” 1888 [donated by Jo Osment] Bayside Gallipoli 1915: the fallen diggers of Bayside, Victoria 2015 Bendigo Bendigo branch of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies: Bendigo genealogist No. 111 JUNE 2015: Tweed - Young family p5. Walhalla: gold town of Gippsland / Wendy Brown p7. Bendigo Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society: golden links No. 107 APRIL 2015: Housing in Bendigo / Betty Jackman p2. ‘Toorak’, 135 Mollison Street; ‘Arran’, 238 View Street; ‘Eumana’, Retreat Road; ‘Marlborough Lodge’, 115 Wattle Street; ‘Montanvert House’, 86 Violet Street; ‘Roseview’, 407 High Street; Chinese Camp, Emu Point, Ironbark. W.C. Vahland, 1828-1915, architect p7. Berwick Berwick Cemetery tour: murder and misfortune 26 Oct 2014 Bright Bright Historical Society: newsletter Vol.15 no.5&6 MAY 2015: William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Marriott p1. Freeburgh Hall - demolished 2014 (photo) p4. Brighton Brighton Historical Society: journal P 994.51 BRIG BRI No. 172 WINTER 2015: Art deco in Brighton (pictorial cover). Norman John Ried: memories of a paper boy from Gardenvale / Sandra Lanteri p5. Brighton’s air ace: Air Commodore Cobby [Arthur Henry ‘Harry’] / Jo Jenkinson p10. A soldier’s story: Haughton Forest ‘Tod’ Nicholson [letters, World War One] p13. Ghost signs: uncovering Melbourne’s past through the traces of hand- painted advertising signs p15. Carlton Carlton girls born and bred : the story of Ruth Bailey ...and her mother ...and her grandmother ...and her daughters / Margaret Rich 2014 Chelsea The fallen from Chelsea and Carrum : those who served and died in World War I / Margaret Diggerson 2014 [donated by Chelsea Historical Society Inc] Chelsea Historical Society: The Strand JULY 2015. Colac-Otway Shire Rail centre Colac : rail stations in the Colac Otway Shire, 1877 to 2014 / by Norman Houghton 2014 Coongulmerang Hammond family of Coongulmerang / Judy Richardson and Heather Armit 2014 Creswick Water and gold : interpreting the landscape of Creswick Creek / Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence and Jodi Turnbull 2015 Donvale Donvale Christian College : 40th year celebration / Elizabeth Tulloch ; [forewords by Stewart Miller, Ruth Nicholds, Ray Meers, Yvonne Bradley, Ross Grace and Rick Porter]. 2015 [donated by Donvale Christian College] East Gippsland East Gippsland Family History Group and East Gippsland Historical Society: the black sheep No. 87 MAY 2015: Looking after memorials: Heritage Victoria workshop / Debbie Squires p4. Their duty done … the acorn that just keeps growing and a move down the corridor [World War One project] p7. Hammond family reunion [descendants of Jack and Amelia Hammond (nee Fels)] / Judy Richardson p8. World War One slang p10. In memorium: Gwen Murrell 1930-2014; Jim Prendergast 1927-2015 p15. Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ July 2015 Page 2 of 6 2015 Recent Additions.indd 2 5/08/2015 11:07:52 AM RECENT ADDITIONS Echuca Echuca Historical Society: in touch Vol.7 no.2 JUNE 2015: Celebrating Echuca East Football Club. William Vahland exhibition. Echuca Echuca-Moama Family History Group: bridges and branches No. 89 MARCH 2013: McCarthy / McCartney family: early settlers in Australia p5. Golf Club 1907 p8. Herbert and Frances Crumpler - residents of Bamawm p10. Mary Edith Deer p12. Moama Cemetery project p13. Items as written in a ‘Supplement’ to the Riverine Herald 1 July 1938 p14. Death of James Maiden 1938 p14. No. 90 JUNE 2013: John Patrick: a life lived in the newspapers p5. Crumpler correction p6. The Shire of Echuca p7, ratepayers 1871 p8. Campaspe Shire cemetery project p10. The village of Runnymede [map] p11. Do you know the Payne family?