RECENT ADDITIONS JANUARY 2017 Australian Literature The Birdman’s Wife (novel about Mrs Gould) / Melissa Ashley 2016 INSIDE Mysteries Australian Literature .1 Slaughter Park (Belltree 3) / Barry Maitland 2016 Australian History .....1 Signal Loss (Peninsula Crimes 7) / Garry Disher 2016 Victoria ..................... 3 Australian History Other States .............. 12 Aboriginal Australians 15 Books Art and Artists .........16 The Dust of the Mindye: The use of biological warfare in the conquest of Australia / Jim Poulter 2016 Biographies ..............16 The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia / Purushottama Bilimoria, Family History ......... 17 Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Philip Hughes 2015 Military Histories ....18 Town and Bush: Stray notes on Australia / Nat Gould 1974 Railways ...................18 The Masonic Grand Masters of Australia / Kent Henderson 1988 Politics & Government 18 The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006 / Nonja Peters 2006 The Shearers’ War: The story of the 1891 shearers’ strike / Stuart Svensen ABOUT THE PMI 2008 39 St Edmonds Road Tales of the Overland: Queensland to Kimberley in 1885 / G.H. Lamond Prahran VIC 3181 2013 ABN 1316 4635 256 Public Expenditures and Social Policy in Australia. Vol.2: The first Fraser years Sec. Lib.: Steven Haby 1976-78 / edited by R.B. Scotton and Helen Ferber 1980 Pres: Mr Steve Stefanopoulos Money Made Us [how economic values shaped Australia] / Donald Horne 1977 CONTACT T 03 9510 3393 The Way We Were: Australian popular magazines 1856-1969 / Vane Lindesay 1983 E [email protected] W www.pmi.net.au From the Edge: Australia’s lost histories / Mark McKenna 2016 Gangland Robbers / James Morton and Susanna Lobez 2016 OPEN: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri Surf-o-Rama: Treasures of Australian surfing (New edition) / Murray Walding 9:30am - 4:30pm 2016 Thu Only in Australia: The history, politics, and economics of Australian 9:30am - 7pm exceptionalism / edited by William O. Coleman 2016 excluding public holidays and the Christmas/New Year period. The Australian National Dictionary: Australian words and their origins (2 volumes) / Bruce Moore, Amanda Laugesen, Mark Gwynn and others 2nd ed. (not for loan) 2016 A Single Tree: Voices from the bush / Don Watson 2016 Under Full Sail / Rob Mundle 2016 The Story of Australia’s people: The rise and rise of ancient Australia / Geoffrey Blainey 2015 Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ JANUARY 2017 1 RECENT ADDITIONS 1787: The lost chapters of Australia’s beginnings / Nick Brodie 2016 Little Fish are Sweet [Queensland police corruption] / Matthew Condon 2016 All Fall Down [Queensland police corruption] / Matthew Condon 2016 Periodicals Cinema and Theatre Historical Society: cinema record P 792 CIN No. 92 2016: Richmond National Theatre / Les Tod p6. Stanley-a brief history of the town hall p9. Blackett and Forster: Architects of the Barkley Theatre Footscray p10. $mall change [admission prices, Melbourne Regent Theatre 1929] p11. The Stargazer Drive-In, Thurgoona, NSW / David Scott p12. Who would want to work at the pictures (part 4) [Cremorne Orpheum, Dendy Cinema] / Steve Maggs p16. The Comedy Theatre Melbourne / Fred Page p19. My story: At the Darwin Drive-In / Patti Izod p23. Now showing [Barkly Theatre Footscray, Waverley Theatre East Malvern, Circle Theatre Essendon, Broadway Theatre Elwood, Lyric Theatre Brunswick, Dux Theatre Albert Park] / Royce Harris p26. My 50 years at 191 Collins Street [Regent Theatre] / Ian Williams p30. Ballarat’s Civic Hall / Earl Martell p32. Municpal Theatre, Charleville / Gerry Kennedy p34. Recollections of the Victory Picture Theatre Taringa, Queensland / Eric Marggraf p36. A snapshot in time [drive-in theatres] p39. Australian National Dictionary Centre: Oz Words P 427 DIC Vol. 25 No.2 OCTOBER 2016: Mailbag [Gnarly, at sparrow fart, metallician, enough to drive a body beresk, fang it fangio] p4. The Australian Comic Dictionary / Mark Gwynn p6. Spanner crabs, platform 27, and a one-duck duck farm [various family and local idioms] / Julia Robinson p7. Australian National Placenames Survey: placenames Australia P 910.3 PLA DECEMBER 2016: Who names our places [Permanent Committee on Placenames] / David Blair p1. Turramurra-another furphy from the naming books? [origins of the name Turramurra] Jeremy Steele p3. Esoteric placenames on Norfolk Island / Joshua Nash p7. Toponymy 101 D: The geographical and economic significance of toponyms [Garden Island, Sunshine coast, Gold Coast, Pacific Paradise, Sunshine Beach, Copacabana Beach NSW, Barangaroo (The Hungry Mile), Bennelong Point, Toorak, Snowtown SA] / Jan Tent p8. Uniting Church Historical Society Synod of Victoria and Tasmania: Proceedings P 288 PRO Vol.23 No.2 DECEMBER 2016: The Rev. Graeme Bucknall in ministry: 1965-1970 / E. Anne Amos p32. A conversation with John Vander Reest / Robert Renton p45. Horton College / E.R Pretyman p69. The Rev. Michael Clarke / Graham Beanland p89. Meeting Jesus at the centre [memories of Peter Autmen and his work in the Uniting Church] / Peter Autmen p102. Mutual Improvement Societies [Congregational: Ballarat, Bendigo, Camberwell, Castlemaine, Prahran, West Melbourne, Windsor. Methodist: Ballarat, Bamawm, Canterbury and Balwyn, Chilwell, Colac, Eaglehawk, Footscray, Horsham, Ivanhoe, Newtown, North Melbourne, Northcote, Port Melbourne, Prahran, Queenscliffe, Sale, South Yarra, Toorak. Presbyterian: Bendigo, Boort, Echuca, Footscray, Geelong (St Luke’s, St Andrews), Murchison, North Carlton, Port Melbourne, Thornbury, Toolamba, Wodonga / Ken James p111. Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee: the wayfarer P 820 GOR No. 40 DECEMBER 2016: Commemorative plaque [Gordon’s house between Penzance Street and Brighton Road] p2. Extract from An Unsentimental Journey part thee (The Australasian Saturday 3 April 1869, pages 11, 12) p4. Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ JANUARY 2017 2 RECENT ADDITIONS National Trusts of Australia: Trust P 363.69 TRU AUS No. 1 SUMMER 2016: The good fight [working to save Windsor’s (NSW) historic bridge and town square] / Steve Dow p11. Modern times [Parramatta’s Old Government House] / Joanne Gambale p17. A beautiful past [art of Milingimbi community] / Cara Pinchbeck p20. On the road [Old Hume Highway] / Kara Rosenlund p31. Lyon’s share [Home Hill, home of Joseph Lyons] / Hilary Burden p34. Paradise lost? [Martindale Hall (SA)] / Darren Peacock p42. Labassa restored / Jennifer Stackhouse p50. Secret signs [hexafoil markings at Wolston Farmhouse near Brisbane] / Ian Evans p59. Tales of old [Alice Springs’ old jail and schoolhouse] / Claire Mactaggart p64. Making music [Gallop House composer in residence: Andrew Batt-Rawden] / Steve Dow p75. Scott’s journey [Scott McAlister] / Leah Twomey p78. People power [Snowy River Scheme added to Australian National Heritage List] / Alex Speed p80. Votes for women [women’s suffrage] p85. The James Cook Museum / Jennifer Stackhouse p90. News and events [Retford Park gifted to NSW National Trust by James Fairfax] / Angela le Sueur p92. Salvation Army: heritage newsletter P 289 SAL No. 55 DECEMBER 2016: Mrs Staff-Captain Gibbs’ bible p3. Salvation army memorial plaque at original site of the Hostel 462 Little Lonsdale Street p4. Limelight Studio p5. Fat Bob’s Hamburger Restaurant in Moorabin p5. Miniature bandsmen [1947 miniature Salvation Army bandsmen] p7. Sunday school medal-1950 [Patricia Walton] p7. Magic lantern slides and the Limelight Department p8. Victoria Books Batman’s Treaty: The true story / Jim Poulter 2016 Judging For The People: A social history of the Supreme Court in Victoria 1841-2016 / edited by Simon Smith 2016 Just Like Family: A history of Victoria’s Rural Finance Corporation / Adam McNicol and Andrew Chapman 2015 A History of Organ Buses, Kyneton, Victoria: 78 years of road transport, trucks 1929- 1946, buses and coaches 1945-2007 / compiled by Ken James for the Organ family 2016 [donated by Ken James] 50 Years of Weather: Victoria 1908-1957 / Commonwelath Bureau of Meteorology 1958 Ash Wednesday…Wednesday, February 16 1983 / The Age and The Advertiser 1983 Melbourne Studies in Education 1972 / edited by R.J.W. Selleck 1972 Miegunyah: The bequests of Russell and Mab Grimwade / John Poynter and Ben Thomas 2015 A 150 Year Cricket Journey in South West Victoria / Graeme Allen Fischer 2016 [donated by Graeme Allen Fischer] Directory of Stations / Victorian Railways 1962 [donated by Steven Haby] Index to Victorian Goldfields Hospitals’ Admissions at Amherst, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Creswick, Dunolly, Kyneton, Maldon and Maryborough [electronic resource] 2003 Ballarat Haymes: Paint flowing through the veins / Phil Roberts 2016 Bendigo Victoria Hill and its Historical Associations [Victoria Hill Mine Bendigo] / George A Ellis 2016 Footscray Footscray Cemetery Register and Memorial Transcriptions 2008 [electronic resource) Geelong Comeback: The fall and rise of Geelong / James Button 2016 Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ JANUARY 2017 3 RECENT ADDITIONS Girgarre Girgarre / compiled by Athol McDonald and Jenny Wadelton 2016 Harkaway Ordinary People, Interesting Lives: A walk in the historic Harkaway Cemetery 30 October 2016 / Narre Warren and District Family History Group 2016 Koo-Wee-Rup Our Boys From The Bush: Koo-Wee-Rup and District soldiers at W.W.1 a brief synopsis 1914-1918 / Annette O’Donohue 2016 Melbourne Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960 / Richard Broome 2016 [donated by Judith Buckrich] Millewa North Rails to Millewa