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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

ANNUAL REPORT 1973

Professor and Head of Department

Professor

Reader

Professorial Fellow

Senior Fellows

Fellow

Research Fellows

J.A. La Nauze, B. A.(W.A.), M • A • ( 0 x on . ) , Li t t • D • 01e1 b • ) (on leave)

0.0.G. MacDonagh, M.A.(N.U.I . and Cantab.), Ph.D.(Cantab.) (from September)

L.F. Fitzhardinge, B.A.(Syd.), M.A., B.Litt.(Oxo~) (Acting Head)

R.A. Gollan, M.A.(Syd.), Ph.D. (Lond.)

F.B. Smith, M.A.(Melb.), Ph.D. (Cantab.)

J.J. Eddy, B.A.(Melb.), D.Phil. (Oxon.) (from October)

G.C.L. Hazlehurst, B.A.(Melb.), D.Phil.(Oxon.)

J.A. Merritt, M.A.(W.A.), Ph.D. (A.N.U.)

G.W. Martin, M.A.,Ph.D.(Cantab.)

H.N. Nelson, B.A., M.Ed.(Melb.)

Post Doctoral Fellow D.R. Walker, B.A.(Adel.), Ph.D. (A.N.U.)

Research Associate M.E. Hoare, B.A.(Hull), M.A.(Monash) (Jointly with Australian Academy of Science)

Honorary Visiting Fellows Joan T. Radford (Lecturer, Depart-ment of Chemistry, Melbourne University) (to July)

F.K. Crowley (Professor of History, University of N.S.W.) (February-June)

Research Assistants

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Joan Lynravn

R.M. Elizabeth ilurser, M.A.(Calif.) (to i.fovembe r)

r~oira J. Scollay, B.A. (A.H.U.)

AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY

Professor and General Editor

Senior Fellow

Research Officer

Research Assistants

D.TI. Pike, D.Litt.(Adel.)

il.B. Nairn, M.A.(Syd.)

H.J. Gibbney, B.A.(W.A.), M.A.(A.N.U.)

Martha D. Campbell, B.A.(Syd.), N.A. (A.N.U.)

Suzanne Edear, B.A.(Adel.)

Sally M. O' Neill, B.A.(Adel.) (on leave)

Deirdre Pescott, B.A.(A. U.U.)

Nan Phillips

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Introduction

The Department of History is concerned with the study of Australian history, social, political and intellectual, with similar aspects of British history in the nineteenth ., and twentieth centuries, and with relevant comparativ~ · studies, espe~ially those arising from British 'imperial' developments in the nineteenth century. Work in all these fields is proceeding. Emphases change from time to time according to the availability of materials for advanced research and the special interests of members of staff able to supervize graduate students in particular fields. A~ a Department in a ~national' university, History has b~en deliberately concerned to encourage mature research in Australia by making available several posts on its estab-lishment to historians from other Universities for · periods of up to two years, so that work already well-advanced may be completed. From such appointments there ~as been, and continues to be, gain on both sides.

Staff

Professor J.A. La Hauze was absent on study-leave during the year. Jointly with the publisher 7 s editor, Mis~ Mackenzie, he received the Barbara Ramsden Award for 1972 for his The Making of the Australian Const~tution (Melbourne University Press, 1972).

Mr L.F. Fitzhardinge was Acting Head of the Department. After more than twenty years' service, in the early years of which he in effect established the Department before the. appointment of the fi~st Professor, Sir Keith Hancock, he retires at the end of 1973.

Professor 0. MacDonagh, formerly Professor of History at Flinders University and University College, Cork, arrived in September to occupy a second chair in the Department.

Various members of the staff were invited to lecture in other Australian universities.

Dr F.B. Smith returned from study-leave in April.

Professor H.C. Allen, of the University of East Anglia~ was a School Fellow attached to the Department from August until October.

Students and Seminars

Eleven students were working for the Ph.D. during the year in varied fields of Australian and modern British history. Five students qualified for the award of the Ph.D. Four others will submit their theses for e x amination early in 1974.

Weekly seminars, presenting reports on the work of staff and students, and papers by visitors , were h eld throughout the year.

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Research Work - Staff

Professor La Nauz e (with Mrs E. Nurser) completed for publication an a~notate d e d ition of the correspondence of Walter Murdoch and Alfred Deakin, ~1hich will be publishe d in 1974. He did res e arch in Canberra and Perth, and in Britain, for a biographical memoir of Walter Murdoch .

Professor NacDonagh completed the revision , with con-siderable supplementary matter, of his book Ireland , f irst published in 1 9 68, and also completed . papers on legal and constitutional h istory.

Dr Gollan ' s Australian Radicalism 1920-55 : the Rise and Fall of the Communist Party is expected to go to the publisher in January 1974 .

Dr Smith is writing a history of England, 1760-1865, to be called England Transformed, and continuing his resea~ch into health and sickness in the British Isles in the nineteenth century.

Dr Eddy's book Great Britain and the Australian Colonies 1831-75, and his contribution to 3 volume Studies in Colonial Nationalism, 1885-1910 are expected to be completed in · 1974, together with articles for publication ar~sing from these : studies.

Dr Hazlehurst completed the Guide to British Cabinet . Ministers' Papers (co-author, Christine Woodland) to be published in 1974, and several papers on twentieth-century British political history to be published in 1974 or 1975, as well as continuin3 his work on the · ~diting of the - Pease Journal and the career of David Lloyd George .

Dr Merritt continued his work on a history of the Australian Workers' Union. A bo6k on the period 1886-1911 should . be ready for publication during 1974 .

Dr Martin has been working on a book of essays i n imperial h istory to be published in 1975.

Mr Hoare completed his manuscript on ' Science and Scien-tific Societies in Australia, 1820- 90 1 , and continued his work on · the history of science in Australia- and the scientific work. of Cook ' s voyages . He is e d iting for· the Hakluyt Society the Journal of J. R. Forster on Cook ' s second voyage . •,

Mr Nelson was working on . the h~story of Papua New Guinea, and interviewing various people concerned in that history . A manuscript on the r~lations between Australian miners and Papua New Guineans .should be co n pleted in 1974. He prepared a new edition ~ with a supplementary chapter, of his Papua New Guinea : Black Unity or Black Chaos? (Pelican, 1972).

Dr Walker prepar e d for publication ·a boo k provisionally entitled ' Literary Nationalism : A Melbourne Study, 1900-1940 1 •

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Mr Nairn (Australian Dictionary of Biography) continued his stud~ of the New South Wales Lab~r Party j 1870-1947, of which the first volume was p ublished durin g the year.

Mr Gibbney (A.D.B.) continued work on a history of the Uoruya district, and on an historical index of Australian journ~lists.

AUSTRALIAN DICTIO NARY OF BIOGRAPHY

The central or ganization of the Australian Dictionary of Biography has since its beginning been associated with the Department of History but it is in effect an · ind ependent section, until the end of 1973 under Professor D.R . Pike. It has been steadily progressing according to the original plan for ·the produ~tion of some twelve volumes covering 1788-1939.

Professor Pike retired at the end of 1973 . It was hoped that use could be made of his special expertise in the period to 1890 by retaining his services, in the capacity of a Vis~ting Fellow, for the editorial work on the last volume co~ering that period ; but bis serious illness towards the end of 1973 may now make that impracticable. This is not the place to do more than mention the debt which the University owes to him for his immense labours over the last decade in creating the model , and setting the standards, of the Dictionary which has added to the international prestige of the University .

The Senior Fellow on the staff of the Dictionary, Mr U.B. Nairn, took charge of the final stage $ of work on volume 5 when Professor Pike became ill .

Volume 5 ( K-Q) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography will be publishe d in 1974. Work on Volume 6 .(R-Z) is progressin ~ and its publication is anticipated late in 1975. This will complete the second chronological section, 1851-90.

Six volumes are planned to cover the: third chronological section, 1891-1939 ~ preliminary work -is ~~ing done on preparing the lists of entries and possible authors for these volumes, with the help of the section· editors, Professor G.C. Bolton, Mr N.B. Nairn, Dr ·R.J . O'Neill and Professor J . Poynter.

Publications

COWARD, Dan 1 Crime and Punishment : the Gr~at Strike in New South Wales, August to October 1~17~, chapter in Strikes : Studies in Twentieth Century Australian Social History eds. Iremonger, Merritt, Osborne, Angus and Robertson and Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 19'73·t' 'pp·-.;51-ao.

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EDDY, J.J.

'Australia: 11 That Better Country"?', The Month, London, 1973, second n.s.6(2):39-45. ·

' Labour and the Civilizing of Capitalismv , Twentieth Century> 1973, 28(3) : 12 8-142 .

· 'Australian Catholicism in the last Fifty Years ' , The Australasian Catholic Record ~ 1973, 5 0(4) ; 306-20.

GIBBi:JEY, H.J.

'The New Guinea Goldrush of 1878', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical S .·ciety , December 1972 : 284-296.

HOARE, ~1. E.

' " The half-mad Bureaucrat :; : Robert Brough Smyth (1830-87)', Ree. Aust. Acad. Sci. 2(4) - 1973. (at press)

'Recent Manuscript Accessions', ibid.

LA NAUZE , J.A.

1 Federal Conventions - the 1890s and now', Austrilian Quarterly, 45,52-7.

Presentation of Historical Theses , Melbourne U.P., 28. (reprint)

MARTIN, G.W .

'Empire Federalism and Imperial Parliame ntary Union , 1S20-1870', Historical Journal , XVI, 1973( March),65-92.

'The Cambrid g e Lectureship of 1866 ~ A False Start in American Studies ' , Journal of American Studies , VII, 1973(March),17-29·.

MERRITT, J.A.

'W.G. Spence and the 1890 Maritime Strike', Historical Studies, vol.15 , 60,Apr i l 1973,594-609.

Edited with J. Iremong e r and G. Osborne, ~trikes : Studies in Twentieth Century Australian Social History, Augus and Robertson, Sydney,1973,265+xix.

NAIRN, N.B.

Civilizing Capitalism : Th e Labor Movement in Ti ew South Hales 1870-19-00, ANU Pr e ss,1973,260.

EELSON, H.N.

1 Miners, Labdureis ind Officials on the Lakekamu Goldfield of Pa pua', Labour History,25, Nove mber 1973, 40-52.

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NELSON, H.N. (contd.)

'Our Boys up North', Meanjin Quarterly, 4, 1973, 433-441.

SMITH, F.B.

Radical Artisan: William James Linton 1812-97, Manchester University Press, 1973: 254.

'Three Neglected Masterpieces: :: Joshua Davidsorl', 11 The Martyrdom of Manu, 11 London - A Pilgrimage ;' ', Meanjin Quarterly, 1973, 32(1),114-26.

WALKER, D.R.

'A Bohemian's Progress: Louis Esson in Melbourne , 1904-1914', Meanjin, 4, 1972, 417-426.