Hunter Living Histories

Student Research Papers in Australian History was a serial published by the University of Newcastle’s History Club, Department of History, and featured some of the best papers on Australian history written by undergraduate history students at the time. It is great to see such local historical topics afforded University level academic rigour. Many of these authors went on to bigger and better things, and some well known as influential people in their own right.

We are very proud to have digitised Nos 1-8 complete of the Student Research Papers in Australian History, published during the period 1976-1983.

Many of the topics will be of great interest scholars and local historians. Each article is reproduced separately as a PDF file, and the entire volume is also available as a single PDF file.

Number 1 – 1976

NB During its first year, the serial was called Student research papers in early Australian history and was published by the University of Newcastle’s Department of History.

• Number 1 – complete
• “Race against time” by Christine Misko
• “Convict offences: Shaw/Robson?” by Gary Luxford
• ““James Mudie, civilian magistrate, property owner, “Castle Forbes”, Patrick Plains” by Louis Greenwell
• “The Australian Agricultural Company” by Ken Kennedy
• “The squatting women of Australia” by Sally Kinsley

Number 2 – 1977

• Number 2 – complete
• “Edward Capper : Hardware and society.” by Ian Bowrey
• “Dangar’s dismissal.” by Russell Seton
• “The ‘Wanted columns’ of the Maitland Mercury. 1850-55: employment patterns during the gold rushes.” by Jan Horne
• “Working class women and the suffragettes : A Study of urban New South Wales and Victoria. 1890-1900.” by Noeline Williamson
• “Australian theatre : a reflection of the national selfconsciousness.” by Judi Harris
• “The 1929 collieries lockout and the Rothbury Incident.” by William Hill

Number 3 – 1978

• Number 3 – complete
• “Solomon Wiseman, and his part in the settlement of the Hunter Valley” by B.M. Penglase
• “Dawson, the Australian Agricultural Company, and the Manning River” by Lyn Strahan
• “Early steamships and the Hunter trade 1830 – 1855″ by Hugh Thomson
• “E.H. Burgmann and the Depression in Newcastle 1930 – 33: ideas and practice” by Jennifer Cronin
• “The University of Newcastle: controversial beginnings: 1952 to 1959″ by Vanessa Tripp

Number 4 – 1979

• Number 4 – complete
• “Monumental sculptures: J.J. Edstein and his sons 1855 – 1941″ by Tracey Edstein
• “Problems encountered with the building of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle 1868 – 1902″ by Janelle Pauling
• “Socialism in Newcastle: the elections of 1885 and 1895″ by Paul Kiem
• “The convict bushranging era in the Hunter Valley” by Pat Hampton

Number 5 – 1980

• Number 5 – complete
• “The Newcastle and Northumberland Building Society” by Susan Armstrong
• “The pneumonic influenza epidemic of 1919 in New South Wales” by Jennifer Greenwell
• “The Great Lockout” by Bruce Jenkins
• “Small town cinema: an entertainment monopoly” by Cathy Graham
• “A preliminary sketch of Italian migration” by Maureen Strazzari

Number 6 – 1981

• Number 6 – complete
• “Liberal or vocational education: a gulf in Newcastle in 1938″ by Veronica Lunn
• “Isolated, poor, but happy: life in West Wallsend 1938″ by Marjorie White
• “Work and ambition in Newcastle 1938: a middle class case” by John McQualter
• “Steel the master: the impact of work on life in Newcastle in 1938″ by Kevin Cranson
• “The impact of shift work on families in 1938: a case study” by Gina Barbon

Number 7 – 1982

• Number 7 – complete
• “‘In a job’ in 1938: a reflection of Depression experiences” by Barbara Gaudry
• “A troubleshooter and his establishment church” by Murray Payne
• “Steel or starve” by Susan Owen
• “Islington 1938: a single life within general history” by Brett Deacon
• “Work and life in Dudley 1938: everything was on the up and up” by Annette Curtis.

Number 8 – 1983

• Number 8 – complete
• “”We enjoyed every ounce of life then” – a view of coalmining” by Annette Doyle
• “Above the ground in 1938″ by Dot Trim
• “”Moderne – come back to earth!”: a view of an architect and architecture in Newcastle in 1938″ by Paul Munro