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](Review(s) of: Redemption of a slave ship the James Matthews, by Graeme Henderson, Western Austral... more Review(s) of: Redemption of a slave ship the James Matthews, by Graeme Henderson, Western Australian Maritime Museum, 2009, ISBN 9781920843991.
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2019
One of the early acts of Macquarie's governorship was the creation of towns: famously, the five '... more One of the early acts of Macquarie's governorship was the creation of towns: famously, the five 'Macquarie Towns' on the Hawkesbury River - Castlereagh, Pitt Town, Richmond, Wilberforce, and Windsor (see Figure 1), as well as Liverpool, Bathurst and Hobart, in addition to the reorganisation of the town plans of Sydney and Parramatta. Overall, Ian Jack claims that Macquarie had a critical role in planning 11 towns in New South Wales and two in Tasmania.* There has been research into the origins and nature of the designs for key Macquarie buildings and of the landscaping of the Domain.' In contrast, there has been little research into the origins of the town plans used for the five Macquarie Towns, other than to dismiss them because their grid form is regarded as uninspiring. However, the recent controversial proposal to construct a bridge and access road through Thompson Square in Windsor has brought the design of the Macquarie Towns into focus, with many claims made about the nature and genius of his township designs. This paper is a brief look at the Macquarie Towns and the possible influences on their design. It speculates on the role of the creation of towns in Macquarie's exercise of his governorship and further looks at Macquarie's ties to the Scottish Enlightenment.
ASHA Blog, 2018
This is a blog discussing how a map of the three divisions of NSW was created using ArcGIS and gh... more This is a blog discussing how a map of the three divisions of NSW was created using ArcGIS and ghistorical documents
Cultural Landscape Diversity and the Implications for Management Australia ICOMOS Cultural Landscape Symposium Proceedings, 2020
This paper discusses the wheat industry of NSW as examples of industrial landscapes and argues th... more This paper discusses the wheat industry of NSW as examples of industrial landscapes and argues that identifying the industrial nature of the landscape helps understand why the wheat farming landscapes of NSW are of heritage significance. The paper outlines a brief history of the wheat industry in NSW and then focuses on changes to land law, genetics, farming technology and transportation as factors in the industry rapidly developing to be a major export industry and the creation of an industrial landscape. Finally it looks at heritage listings and concludes that they are not systematic and representative of the importance of the wheat industry to NSW and Australia.
I am not quite sure how i became involved in this project but have put the report up as it does n... more I am not quite sure how i became involved in this project but have put the report up as it does not seem to be in any other repository.
The Final Report, was an investigation into the re-establishment of the location of the main grave site of the victims of the wreck of the Cataraqui off the west coast of King Island in 1845 (Australia's worst maritime disaster). The victim's grave sites been lost over time, bur the originally 'fenced' main gave was, lost as well.
In the Final Report the case was put foreword that perhaps the wreck
should not have occurred in the first place, being the ironic victim of the
economy and technology at that period of rapid change in the early
nineteenth century.
The early part of the final report looked to describing the setting and circumstances by which the Cataraqui and its passengers
were to come to grief in such a horrible manner. It then went on to
describe the historical evidence and existing evidence that led to the
findings.
The report describes the use and function of remote sensing and
geophysical prospecting as a tool !o archaeological investigation, using
dead reckoning in the first instance, and then the application of electronic instruments, the magnetometer, gradiometre, and resisitivity meter for investigating the potential presence of sub surface anomalies, namely the mass grave of some two hundred six individuals.
The intention of this surrey was to extend the findings from the recon to a site specific location and there, through test bores, determine if there was. in fact. a grave at that position. It was also our intention not to excavate or exhume any of the victims if thee burial site was confirmed but to only establish. within reasonable certainty, the existence and location of the main grave. This survey exercise is specifically undertaken to support. with evidence d documentation, a tangible location in preparation for a memorial and celebration of the l50rh anniversary of the event of the disaster. to be held in 1995.
The purpose of this paper is to develop the idea of Industrial Nature in the context of the delib... more The purpose of this paper is to develop the idea of Industrial Nature in the context of the deliberate process of revegetation at Broken Hill, Australia; and to show how the industrial processes and relationships between various social groups created by industrial activity resulted in the production of nature in the form of revegetated areas at Broken Hill.
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Cet article traite du programme de re-vegetalisation entrepris a Broken Hill a la fin des annees 1930 a !'initiative de la Zinc Corporation, en tant qu' exemple de "nature industrielle". II met en relief le role joue par Albert Morris dans la definition du concept, et le contexte dans lequel s'est effectue le verdissement, celui du developpement par la Zinc Corporation de sa politique du "Welfare" industriel sur sa concession, en vue de faire barrage au syndicalisme militant des mineurs de Broken Hill. Le sort des planta tions est examine sur la base des vestiges physiques qui en subsistent dans cette ville.
L'article conclut que l'exploitation miniere a Broken Hill ne consiste pas seulement dans le temoignage tres rude qu' en offrent les installations industrielles et les residus du traitement des minerals, mais aussi dans celui, beaucoup plus paisible, dont est por teur le verdissement de Broken Hill - et qu' un tel temoignage doit etre pris en compte dans la gestion du patrimoine minier de la ville
This is a report on the history and archaeological potential of the Lloyds Copper Mine and the to... more This is a report on the history and archaeological potential of the Lloyds Copper Mine and the township of Burraga near Oberon in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed support a listing for for the site by the National Trust. I have put it up as there is so little published about this site.
This is an edited version on an Archaeological Assessment of 6-8 Pitt Street, Windsor,. The site ... more This is an edited version on an Archaeological Assessment of 6-8 Pitt Street, Windsor,. The site was discussed by Judy Birmingham in 1979 as “engineering works covering the brick and concrete structures of Anschau’s former tannery: nearby are the faint depressions of much earlier pits (1979:149). Prior to being a tannery the site was the residence of Laban White, an emanciphist who became a chemist and auctioneer at Windsor.
Australasian Historical Archaeology, Jan 1, 1999
Chapter reporting on a three month survey of historical archaeological sites at Wilsons Promontor... more Chapter reporting on a three month survey of historical archaeological sites at Wilsons Promontory. Includes work at Sealers Cover, Refuge Cove and along the western side of the Prom. Includes details of clearing 3.5 ha of declared "wilderness" to uncover remains of two saw mills.
A brief discussion of industrial heritage issues relating to Sydney Harbour spurred in part by th... more A brief discussion of industrial heritage issues relating to Sydney Harbour spurred in part by the recent demolition of Sydney's Giant Cantilever Crane.
Semi-circular huts have been a familiar element of Australia’s architectural landscape. Often sim... more Semi-circular huts have been a familiar element of Australia’s architectural landscape. Often simply called Nissen Huts, many of the older generation would have slept, ate, were taught or possibly been conceived in such a hut. They were common features of military bases, migrant camps, hospitals and educational institutions. However recent research has shown that not much is known about the huts and that there is a need for some more precise accounts of their types and variety.
The aim of the paper is not to provide a definitive account of the Nissen and similar semi-circular huts but to provide information on the nature of the huts, how to distinguish between the various types and to make some preliminary comments on the occurrence of the types in Australia. It is hoped that this modest amount of research will be of use to heritage consultants faced with a semi-circular building to assess.
An overview of the way in which Quonset Huts arrived in Australia as part of the US Navy construc... more An overview of the way in which Quonset Huts arrived in Australia as part of the US Navy construction activities in Australia during the war. Later Australia salvaged huts from the US base at Manus Island and brought them to Australia for use in the post-War migrations camps.
Canberra Historical Journal, Mar 2005
This paper discusses how an interpersonal dispute between two squatters resulted in the creation ... more This paper discusses how an interpersonal dispute between two squatters resulted in the creation of the village of Tharwa and threatened a key part of the de Salis run - Cuppercumbalong.
in Industiral Heritage Re-Tooled: The TICCIH guide to Industrial Heritage Conservation, Nov 30, 2012
Industrial heritage is rarely confined to a single location or site. More often it is a series of... more Industrial heritage is rarely confined to a single location or site. More often it is a series of interrelated sites across a wide landscape that contain evidence of how the factors of production were organised, brought to a place where they were transformed into goods and services and from there distributed to their market, leaving waste and landscape change. The term ‘industrial landscape’ will be familiar to many as a way of referring to an area larger than an individual industrial place (such as a factory site) but less in spatial scale than a region.
It is useful to study the industrial landscape to understand the full historical scope of an industry or a locus of industries and, therefore, fully appreciate their heritage values. This brief discussion attempts to cover the methods for identifying industrial landscapes and touches on many concepts for which there is a great deal of literature but which cannot be fully discussed in a book such as this.
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical society Vol 98 (1) 75-98, 2012
This paper discusses the process of selection on the Cooleman run in the Brindabella Ranges north... more This paper discusses the process of selection on the Cooleman run in the Brindabella Ranges north-west of Canberra. Using newly available source material the paper looks at the selections made by the leaseholders of the run, the de Salis family, and the dispute between them and Frederick Campbell which resulted in hostile selection on the run. The process of selection is looked at in detail demonstrating how the Conditional Purchase process worked and could be manipulated. The study is also of interest as it is of a geographical area not usually covered in previous discussions of the selection process.
This paper is part of my Ph D. research on Squatting landscapes in South Eastern Australia focusing on the processes that lead to their creation and development.
"This paper gives an outline of the history of the building materials industry in Bendigo. I focu... more "This paper gives an outline of the history of the building materials industry in Bendigo. I focused on the brick industry while Mike Butcher did the rest.
As it was done in the pre "Trove" and digitised Australian newspapers it may need updating."
"The Smythe brothers were minor but important colonial officials in Western Australia, Tasmania a... more "The Smythe brothers were minor but important colonial officials in Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. George Douglas surveyed the coast of Victoria while William Henry Hutchinson became an early gold fields Commissioner.
I became interested in George Douglas Smythe because of his involvement in a massacre of Aborigines near the Aire River on the Otway Coast of Victoria. I kept finding either Smythe as I read more widely in the history of Victoria. They were not prominent actors but were there doing their work which was not insignificant mapping the country was an important function of colonisation."
This paper is really a sorting out of who was squatting where on the NSW/Victora border in East G... more This paper is really a sorting out of who was squatting where on the NSW/Victora border in East Gippsland. It was a spin off from my research into fire regiems in the Delegate River catchment.
Nowdays much of the research would be undertaken from my computer at home accessing Trove and other databases with on-line maps and plans.
Review(s) of: Redemption of a slave ship the James Matthews, by Graeme Henderson, Western Austral... more Review(s) of: Redemption of a slave ship the James Matthews, by Graeme Henderson, Western Australian Maritime Museum, 2009, ISBN 9781920843991.
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2019
One of the early acts of Macquarie's governorship was the creation of towns: famously, the five '... more One of the early acts of Macquarie's governorship was the creation of towns: famously, the five 'Macquarie Towns' on the Hawkesbury River - Castlereagh, Pitt Town, Richmond, Wilberforce, and Windsor (see Figure 1), as well as Liverpool, Bathurst and Hobart, in addition to the reorganisation of the town plans of Sydney and Parramatta. Overall, Ian Jack claims that Macquarie had a critical role in planning 11 towns in New South Wales and two in Tasmania.* There has been research into the origins and nature of the designs for key Macquarie buildings and of the landscaping of the Domain.' In contrast, there has been little research into the origins of the town plans used for the five Macquarie Towns, other than to dismiss them because their grid form is regarded as uninspiring. However, the recent controversial proposal to construct a bridge and access road through Thompson Square in Windsor has brought the design of the Macquarie Towns into focus, with many claims made about the nature and genius of his township designs. This paper is a brief look at the Macquarie Towns and the possible influences on their design. It speculates on the role of the creation of towns in Macquarie's exercise of his governorship and further looks at Macquarie's ties to the Scottish Enlightenment.
ASHA Blog, 2018
This is a blog discussing how a map of the three divisions of NSW was created using ArcGIS and gh... more This is a blog discussing how a map of the three divisions of NSW was created using ArcGIS and ghistorical documents
Cultural Landscape Diversity and the Implications for Management Australia ICOMOS Cultural Landscape Symposium Proceedings, 2020
This paper discusses the wheat industry of NSW as examples of industrial landscapes and argues th... more This paper discusses the wheat industry of NSW as examples of industrial landscapes and argues that identifying the industrial nature of the landscape helps understand why the wheat farming landscapes of NSW are of heritage significance. The paper outlines a brief history of the wheat industry in NSW and then focuses on changes to land law, genetics, farming technology and transportation as factors in the industry rapidly developing to be a major export industry and the creation of an industrial landscape. Finally it looks at heritage listings and concludes that they are not systematic and representative of the importance of the wheat industry to NSW and Australia.
I am not quite sure how i became involved in this project but have put the report up as it does n... more I am not quite sure how i became involved in this project but have put the report up as it does not seem to be in any other repository.
The Final Report, was an investigation into the re-establishment of the location of the main grave site of the victims of the wreck of the Cataraqui off the west coast of King Island in 1845 (Australia's worst maritime disaster). The victim's grave sites been lost over time, bur the originally 'fenced' main gave was, lost as well.
In the Final Report the case was put foreword that perhaps the wreck
should not have occurred in the first place, being the ironic victim of the
economy and technology at that period of rapid change in the early
nineteenth century.
The early part of the final report looked to describing the setting and circumstances by which the Cataraqui and its passengers
were to come to grief in such a horrible manner. It then went on to
describe the historical evidence and existing evidence that led to the
findings.
The report describes the use and function of remote sensing and
geophysical prospecting as a tool !o archaeological investigation, using
dead reckoning in the first instance, and then the application of electronic instruments, the magnetometer, gradiometre, and resisitivity meter for investigating the potential presence of sub surface anomalies, namely the mass grave of some two hundred six individuals.
The intention of this surrey was to extend the findings from the recon to a site specific location and there, through test bores, determine if there was. in fact. a grave at that position. It was also our intention not to excavate or exhume any of the victims if thee burial site was confirmed but to only establish. within reasonable certainty, the existence and location of the main grave. This survey exercise is specifically undertaken to support. with evidence d documentation, a tangible location in preparation for a memorial and celebration of the l50rh anniversary of the event of the disaster. to be held in 1995.
The purpose of this paper is to develop the idea of Industrial Nature in the context of the delib... more The purpose of this paper is to develop the idea of Industrial Nature in the context of the deliberate process of revegetation at Broken Hill, Australia; and to show how the industrial processes and relationships between various social groups created by industrial activity resulted in the production of nature in the form of revegetated areas at Broken Hill.
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Cet article traite du programme de re-vegetalisation entrepris a Broken Hill a la fin des annees 1930 a !'initiative de la Zinc Corporation, en tant qu' exemple de "nature industrielle". II met en relief le role joue par Albert Morris dans la definition du concept, et le contexte dans lequel s'est effectue le verdissement, celui du developpement par la Zinc Corporation de sa politique du "Welfare" industriel sur sa concession, en vue de faire barrage au syndicalisme militant des mineurs de Broken Hill. Le sort des planta tions est examine sur la base des vestiges physiques qui en subsistent dans cette ville.
L'article conclut que l'exploitation miniere a Broken Hill ne consiste pas seulement dans le temoignage tres rude qu' en offrent les installations industrielles et les residus du traitement des minerals, mais aussi dans celui, beaucoup plus paisible, dont est por teur le verdissement de Broken Hill - et qu' un tel temoignage doit etre pris en compte dans la gestion du patrimoine minier de la ville
This is a report on the history and archaeological potential of the Lloyds Copper Mine and the to... more This is a report on the history and archaeological potential of the Lloyds Copper Mine and the township of Burraga near Oberon in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed support a listing for for the site by the National Trust. I have put it up as there is so little published about this site.
This is an edited version on an Archaeological Assessment of 6-8 Pitt Street, Windsor,. The site ... more This is an edited version on an Archaeological Assessment of 6-8 Pitt Street, Windsor,. The site was discussed by Judy Birmingham in 1979 as “engineering works covering the brick and concrete structures of Anschau’s former tannery: nearby are the faint depressions of much earlier pits (1979:149). Prior to being a tannery the site was the residence of Laban White, an emanciphist who became a chemist and auctioneer at Windsor.
Australasian Historical Archaeology, Jan 1, 1999
Chapter reporting on a three month survey of historical archaeological sites at Wilsons Promontor... more Chapter reporting on a three month survey of historical archaeological sites at Wilsons Promontory. Includes work at Sealers Cover, Refuge Cove and along the western side of the Prom. Includes details of clearing 3.5 ha of declared "wilderness" to uncover remains of two saw mills.
A brief discussion of industrial heritage issues relating to Sydney Harbour spurred in part by th... more A brief discussion of industrial heritage issues relating to Sydney Harbour spurred in part by the recent demolition of Sydney's Giant Cantilever Crane.
Semi-circular huts have been a familiar element of Australia’s architectural landscape. Often sim... more Semi-circular huts have been a familiar element of Australia’s architectural landscape. Often simply called Nissen Huts, many of the older generation would have slept, ate, were taught or possibly been conceived in such a hut. They were common features of military bases, migrant camps, hospitals and educational institutions. However recent research has shown that not much is known about the huts and that there is a need for some more precise accounts of their types and variety.
The aim of the paper is not to provide a definitive account of the Nissen and similar semi-circular huts but to provide information on the nature of the huts, how to distinguish between the various types and to make some preliminary comments on the occurrence of the types in Australia. It is hoped that this modest amount of research will be of use to heritage consultants faced with a semi-circular building to assess.
An overview of the way in which Quonset Huts arrived in Australia as part of the US Navy construc... more An overview of the way in which Quonset Huts arrived in Australia as part of the US Navy construction activities in Australia during the war. Later Australia salvaged huts from the US base at Manus Island and brought them to Australia for use in the post-War migrations camps.
Canberra Historical Journal, Mar 2005
This paper discusses how an interpersonal dispute between two squatters resulted in the creation ... more This paper discusses how an interpersonal dispute between two squatters resulted in the creation of the village of Tharwa and threatened a key part of the de Salis run - Cuppercumbalong.
in Industiral Heritage Re-Tooled: The TICCIH guide to Industrial Heritage Conservation, Nov 30, 2012
Industrial heritage is rarely confined to a single location or site. More often it is a series of... more Industrial heritage is rarely confined to a single location or site. More often it is a series of interrelated sites across a wide landscape that contain evidence of how the factors of production were organised, brought to a place where they were transformed into goods and services and from there distributed to their market, leaving waste and landscape change. The term ‘industrial landscape’ will be familiar to many as a way of referring to an area larger than an individual industrial place (such as a factory site) but less in spatial scale than a region.
It is useful to study the industrial landscape to understand the full historical scope of an industry or a locus of industries and, therefore, fully appreciate their heritage values. This brief discussion attempts to cover the methods for identifying industrial landscapes and touches on many concepts for which there is a great deal of literature but which cannot be fully discussed in a book such as this.
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical society Vol 98 (1) 75-98, 2012
This paper discusses the process of selection on the Cooleman run in the Brindabella Ranges north... more This paper discusses the process of selection on the Cooleman run in the Brindabella Ranges north-west of Canberra. Using newly available source material the paper looks at the selections made by the leaseholders of the run, the de Salis family, and the dispute between them and Frederick Campbell which resulted in hostile selection on the run. The process of selection is looked at in detail demonstrating how the Conditional Purchase process worked and could be manipulated. The study is also of interest as it is of a geographical area not usually covered in previous discussions of the selection process.
This paper is part of my Ph D. research on Squatting landscapes in South Eastern Australia focusing on the processes that lead to their creation and development.
"This paper gives an outline of the history of the building materials industry in Bendigo. I focu... more "This paper gives an outline of the history of the building materials industry in Bendigo. I focused on the brick industry while Mike Butcher did the rest.
As it was done in the pre "Trove" and digitised Australian newspapers it may need updating."
"The Smythe brothers were minor but important colonial officials in Western Australia, Tasmania a... more "The Smythe brothers were minor but important colonial officials in Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. George Douglas surveyed the coast of Victoria while William Henry Hutchinson became an early gold fields Commissioner.
I became interested in George Douglas Smythe because of his involvement in a massacre of Aborigines near the Aire River on the Otway Coast of Victoria. I kept finding either Smythe as I read more widely in the history of Victoria. They were not prominent actors but were there doing their work which was not insignificant mapping the country was an important function of colonisation."
This paper is really a sorting out of who was squatting where on the NSW/Victora border in East G... more This paper is really a sorting out of who was squatting where on the NSW/Victora border in East Gippsland. It was a spin off from my research into fire regiems in the Delegate River catchment.
Nowdays much of the research would be undertaken from my computer at home accessing Trove and other databases with on-line maps and plans.
Stuart, I. M. (1979). A site Survey and Settlement Pattern Study of the Glen Aire Valley, Otway R... more Stuart, I. M. (1979). A site Survey and Settlement Pattern Study of the Glen Aire Valley, Otway Ranges, Victoria. B.A. (hons), La Trobe University.
Honors level site survey and settlement pattern analysis
Report on Coal Loading facilities at ports in NSW in order to place the Balls Head Coal loader in... more Report on Coal Loading facilities at ports in NSW in order to place the Balls Head Coal loader into a comparative context to determine whether it was rare or common.
Explanation and map of the divisions of New South Wales introduced under the Crown Lands Act of 1... more Explanation and map of the divisions of New South Wales introduced under the Crown Lands Act of 1884.