Victorian Historical Journal Back Issues

Vol 94, Number 1
June 2023

Inside this issue:

The Education Act 1872 commemorative edition of the Victorian Historical Journal, marking 150 years of public education in Victoria, was supported by the Victorian Government.

“This special issue of the Victorian Historical Journal arises from a two-day conference organised by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in October 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1872 Education Act. These papers must be read as reflections on some questions arising out of the Act and its subsequent history. This is a timely approach, 50 years after the publication of the encyclopaedic centenary history, Vision and Realisation.

Editorial – Andrew Lemon
Welcome – Richard Broome
Opening the conference – Kwong Lee Dow
Vale: Emeritus Professor Richard Joseph Wheeler ‘Dick’ Selleck – Rosalie Triolo
Keynote Address 1: Celebrating with Three Rs: Responsibility, Realisation, Reflection: 150 Years of Public Education in Victoria 1872 – 2022 – Deborah Towns
School Nomenclature in Victoria: A glossary – Andrew Lemon
From National Schools to State Schools in Victoria – Irene Hogan
Industrial Schools in Victoria 1864 – 1872 – Russell Spencer
The Politics of the Victorian Education Act of 1872 – Geraldine Moore
Fifteen Years after the Education Act: The Democratic Crowd at Spencer Street Station. A pictorial essay – Alex McDermott
‘Open the doors!”- Ellen Mulcahy and the Victorian Education Department from 1873 – Wendy Dick
The Church of England Denominational School at Little Eltham – Geoffrey A. Sandy
Catholic Reaction to the Education Act: A case study – Margaret Pagone
An Irish-Catholic Community after the Education Act: The case of Crossley – Helen Doyle
Yarra Park State School No 1406: The first 25 years – Ian Hind
The Effects of the 1890s Depression, and the Reforms it Created – Alan Gregory
Livingston: A One-teacher School in the Gippsland Hills, 1913 – 1938 – David Harris
Keynote Address II: Beyond 3 Rs: The Seven Civic and Citizenship Ideals of State Schooling in Victoria, 1872 – 1910 – Rosalie Triolo
School Reading Material: A window into society – Lorraine Ling
Bendigo School of Domestic Arts: the Nomadic Experience 1916-2016 – Michele Matthews
Women’s Community Leadership: Mothers’ Clubs in the Twentieth Century – Deborah Towns
Making a Difference: Victorian Teachers as Social Activists in the First Half of the Twentieth Century – Cheryl Griffin
Laying the Foundation: The 1872 Education Act and Universal Secondary Education – Richard Teese
The Victorian Secondary Teachers Association, 1953 – 1995 – Rosemary Francis
Teaching Studentships, Student Hostels and Alan Ramsay House – Marilyn Bowler
From Migrant to Multicultural Education – Georgina Tsolidis
Education and Democracy: Ancient and Modern – Adrian Jones