Victorian Historical Journal Back Issues

Vol 91, Number 2
December 2020

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ARTICLES
Introduction by Judith Smart and Richard BroomePast, Last and Future Summers: How History Can Help Us Live on the Fire Continent by Tom Griffiths

‘They Had Little Chance’: The Kew Cottages Fire of 1996 by Richard Broome

The Importance of Gender and Social Networks in Return Migration Decisions by Tony Ward

The Rise and Fall of Lady Gillott in Melbourne’s Turn-of-the-Century Society by Barbara Minchinton

A Path of Patronage and Paradox: The Entry of Women into the Profession of Local Government Administration in Victoria 1900–1920 by Jennifer Hammett

The Warrior as Priest: Edmund Herring and the ‘Call to the People of Australia’ by Michael J. Birkner

HISTORICAL NOTES
Cook’s Point Hicks Revisited by Trevor Lipscombe

Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and the McMillan Photograph by Peter Gardner

The Famous Mrs Fanny Finch of the Mount Alexander Gold Diggings by Kacey Sinclair

The Land of the Lyre Bird in Context by Patrick Morgan

REVIEWS
Canterbury: A History. By Don Gibb with Jill Barnard reviewed by Graeme Davison

1919: The Year Things Fell Apart? Edited by John Lack reviewed by by Peter Stanley

Tarrone Estate Soldier Settlement. Edited by James Affleck reviewed by Peter Stanley

Conflict, Adaption, Transformation: Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History. Edited by Ben Silverstein reviewed by Ingereth Macfarlane

Women to the Front: The Extraordinary Australian Women Doctors of the Great War. By Heather Sheard and Ruth Lee reviewed by Jaclyn Hopkins

Silent Lives: Women of Warrnambool and District 1840–1910. By Elizabeth O’Callaghan reviewed by Judith Smart

A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century. By Sue Silberberg reviewed by Suzanne D. Rutland

The Emigration of Swiss Italians to the Australian Gold Rush. By Giorgio Cheda, translated from the Italian by Antonio Pagliaro reviewed by Richard Broome

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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