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Petherick research register and publications
Petherick Research Register and Publications
Researchers engaged in advanced, long-term research use the resources and facilities of the Petherick Reading Room to access the National Library's collections and services.
This Petherick Research Register lists the Petherick Readers' areas of research and their publications. The publications list is limited to 5 titles, as selected by the researcher. Many of the researchers listed have a larger body of works to their credit. If you have any questions about this list please email peth@nla.gov.au or contact the relevant reader at the email address given.
Some Petherick Readers prefer not to be contacted directly - email may be sent to them care of the Petherick Librarian at peth@nla.gov.au. Please ensure you include the person's name.
Australian history
email: twcatbraddon@yahoo.com.au
History, Australian – late 19th century New South Wales.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
The Jewish diaspora in South East Asia (1780-1980); the Penang/Singapore Sephardic Jewish migration to Australia post-WW II.
email: mdavis@pcug.org.au
Indigenous/European histories; colonial discourses, Australia and the Pacific; ethnographic history; indigenous rights in traditional knowledge.
email: Barbara.Dawson@anu.edu.au
Indigenous people through the eyes of colonial women settlers; 19th and early 20th century Canberra history; Federation.
email: Janet.Doust@anu.edu.au
Australian colonial history; British history; British Empire history; migration history; settler societies; comparative history; social and cultural history.
email: rfdoust@ozemail.com.au
Abstract and index to New South Wales Legislative Council: Votes and Proceedings 1824-1856.
email: nd@netspeed.com.au
Australian magpie in Australian culture; monotremes.
email: Dianne.Firth@canberra.edu.au
History of Canberra planning and landscape.
email: d_hansen@netspace.net.au
Relics of LBJ's 1966 Trip to Australia; postcolonial portraits ; Australian art 1980-2000, from the collections of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
email: 2anthill@cyberone.com.au
website: http://www.anthonyhillbooks.com/home.html
Australians at war.
email: ajn@webone.com.au
Australian history and government media campaigns and strategies; Aboriginal and settler history in the Canberra/Lake George regions; media history; history of government media and public affairs campaigns and strategies and other media strategies on indigenous issues.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Australian history in the 18th century; Australia's maritime border in the Timor Sea.
email: diane.langmore@anu.edu.au
Research for the Australian Dictionary of Biography; wives of Australian governors-general.
email: betheliza@mac.com
Australian cultural history, literature and art with associated interest in Australian natural history art and writing.
email: srmarch@internode.on.net
Australian history and biography; mediaeval and 19th century English history; historiography; book reviews; feature articles; history of the United Australia Party, 1939-1943.
email: smarsden@bigpond.net.au
Australian post-settlement history; urban history, social history, oral history, and the intersections between history, heritage and culture in Australia; regional history especially in South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, southwestern New South Wales and Newcastle.
email: gamawer@bigpond.net.au
Australian colonial history; exploration and discovery; maritime history; Antarctic history.
email: wolf.mayer@bigpond.com.au
The search for coal, limestone and other natural resources in the early years of the colony of New South Wales; journeys of exploration in New South Wales, 1788-1825.
email: Pam.Oliver@arts.monash.edu.au
The Japanese presence in Australia and influence in Australian affairs between 1860s and 1950s. This includes work on the Japanese trading companies, espionage and invasion, immigration, family stories, intermarriage, race theory and the Northern Territory.
email: mike.p@ozemail.com.au
Historic Australian ships; passenger shipping history and social context of shipping routes along the Western Australia coast and between Western Australia and the east coast; heritage buildings and sites for conservation planning, including mining sites, pastoral sites and major public buildings.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Bingley family, early Queanbeyan settlers and their origins in Yorkshire, 16th-18th centuries.
email: libby.robin@anu.edu.au
website: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/robinl.php
History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy, especially in Australia; comparative environmental history; environmental sensibility and national identity; environment in museums; history of ornithology; history of Australian science.
email: dspennemann@csu.edu.au
Bibliographical research on southern Riverina authors (Walter G. Henderson, Sydney Jephcott, John Farrell).
email: kinggsixth@yahoo.com.au
Media history and culture in Australia; Canberra history; globalisation; Australian librarian biographies; bibliographical and archival compilations on East Timor, 1974-1999.
email: brianwimborne@hotmail.com
Research for the Australian Dictionary of Biography; Archives of Singapore; Jewish history and biography.
Biography
email c/o Petherick Librarian
Biography on Sultan Sir Abu Bakar of Johore; pre-Khmer cities on the Malayan Peninsular; Australian archaeologists & French academics in the tropics.
email: clarke.patricia@netspeed.com.au
Rosa Praed and Judith Wright's letters with her daughter Meredith McKinney.
email: pam.crichton@anu.edu.au
Historical research for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Australian literature and theatre, 19th century.
email: Barbara.Dawson@anu.edu.au
Historical research for Australian Dictionary of Biography.
email: Derek.Drinkwater@apsc.gov.au
International theory; international history; diplomacy; biography.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Biographies of graduates of the Empire Air Training Scheme.
email: rebflamb@hotmail.com
Researching the life of the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Thomas Macquoid, 1829-1841 and his life at Darlinghurst and the Limestone Plains.
email: wolf.mayer@bigpond.com.au
Charles Throsby, surgeon, explorer and settler (1788-1828).
email: brianwimborne@hotmail.com
Biographical research for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Dictionary of National Biography.
Food
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Food and eating (especially in Australia) and culinary literature.
Gardening
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Australian gardens and gardening history.
History
email c/o Petherick Librarian
Malay manuscript letters from the Royal Court of Terengganu; the Jewish diaspora in South East Asia (1780-1980); the Penang/Singapore Sephardic Jewish migration to Australia post-WW II; pre-Khmer cities on the Malayan Peninsular.
email: mdavis@pcug.org.au
Indigenous/European histories; colonial discourses, Australia and the Pacific; ethnographic history; Indigenous rights in traditional knowledge.
email: Janet.Doust@anu.edu.au
British history; British Empire history; migration history; settler societies; comparative history; social and cultural history.
email: coldwords@gmail.com
Environmental history of the subantarctic islands and Polar regions; History of Antarctica, and of Australia’s involvement; publication of the NLA’s 1953 Heard Island diaries of John Béchervaise.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
China trade - London, Calcutta, Canton 1780-1839.
email: waldenent@hotmail.com
Thai/Myanmar studies - history, language and culture. Particular focus on governance and civil society, holistic security, poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Pacific history in the 18th century; exploration and imperial rivalry.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Scotland, 16th-19th century, especially the religious dissenters in the south-west.
Human and environmental sciences
email: libby.robin@anu.edu.au
website: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/robinl.php
History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy, especially in Australia; comparative environmental history; environmental sensibility and national identity; environment in museums; history of ornithology; history of Australian science.
Language
email c/o Petherick Librarian
16th and 17th century Malay wordlists in Dutch and English travel journals.
email: rupertgerritsen@ozemail.com.au
Palaeoeconomy; historical ethnography; anthropology; archaeology; prehistory; historical linguistics and linguistics.
email: coldwords@gmail.com
Documenting the development of regional English in the Polar regions, by writing a historical dictionary of Polar English.
email: waldenent@hotmail.com
Thai/Myanmar studies - history, language and culture. Particular focus on governance and civil society, holistic security, poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
Literature
email: judith.barbour@usyd.edu.au
Travel journalism and the Baudin voyage 1801-1804; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
email: penelope.c@bigpond.com
Charles Dickens; Victorian society; animals in literature; history of attitudes towards animals; changes in use of animals.
email: dalziell@netspeed.com.au
19th and 20th century autobiography and British and French colonial travel-writing; biography of British colonial explorer/administrator, Sir Everard im Thurn.
email: nd@netspeed.com.au
Australian magpie in Australian culture; monotremes.
email: janhadw@ozemail.com.au
Late mediaeval and early modern literature, especially Scottish, 1450-1600; history of the book (manuscript and printed) in Scotland; an edition for the Scottish Text Society of comic and parody poems in Older Scots.
email: bookphile@bigpond.com
Australian children's books; bibliography; literary history; illustrations; Australian social history.
Music
email: rfdoust@ozemail.com.au
Bibliography of organ music by Australian composers, published and unpublished.
email: graham.hair@virgin.net
Modernism in British and Australian music, especially Don Banks and Keith Humble (Australia) and Matyas Seiber (United Kingdom).
email: 2anthill@cyberone.com.au
website: http://www.anthonyhillbooks.com/home.html
Supression of fiddle playing by the kirk in some parts of Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries.
email: Moyajohn@tpg.com.au
Australian popular music from 1900 to the present, especially sheet music.
Pacific
email Peter.Elder@anu.edu.au
Melanesian history from colonial times; Bougainville between the two world wars.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Australian and Pacific history in the 18th century.
email: dspennemann@csu.edu.au
Bibliographical research on the Pacific short story writer Louis Becke (1855-1913); bibliographical research into German colonial publishing in the Pacific.
Religion
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
History of Christianity and its theology in Western countries.
email: twcatbraddon@yahoo.com.au
Religious history - Anglican Church, Sydney - sisterhoods and brotherhoods, Catholic and Anglican, Australia, New Zealand.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
The Jewish diaspora in South East Asia (1780-1980); the Penang/Singapore Sephardic Jewish migration to Australia post-WW II; the Hikayat Iblis.
Social sciences
email: rupertgerritsen@ozemail.com.au
Palaeoeconomy; historical ethnography; anthropology; archaeology; prehistory; historical linguistics; linguistics.
email: waldenent@hotmail.com
Thai/Myanmar studies - history, language and culture. Particular focus on Governance and Civil Society, Holistic Security, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development.
email: Ann.Kent@anu.edu.au
Completing a book on China and international organganisations and researching international law in Chinese foreign policy. Main areas of interest are Chinese foreign policy, Australian foreign policy and international human rights.
email: c/o Petherick Librarian
Political science and political communication; government systems in Australia, Britain and America; accountability and governance; intercultural communication and public diplomacy; the mainstream media and the non-English speaking press.
Women's issues
Publications by Petherick readers
The publications list is limited to 5 titles, as selected by the researcher. Many of the researchers listed have a larger body of works to their credit.
The Upside-down Pudding: a Small Book of Christmas Feasts. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999.
Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1998.
A Friend in the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery Books. Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1996.
Mary Shelley, Life of William Godwin: The unfinished text from the Abinger papers deposited at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Sydney: English Department and University of Sydney Library, 2002. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/godwin
'"Obliged to make this sort of deposit of our minds": William Godwin and the sociable contract of writing', in Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840, edited by Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 166-185.
'Mary Shelley: Writing/Other Women in Godwin's Life', in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited by Helen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, and Anne McWhir. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001, pp.139-157.
Chapters on Sir George Dibbs and Sir Patrick Jennings in The Premiers of New South Wales, edited by David Clune and Ken Turner. Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2005.
'Canberra's National "Cathedrals": What Happened to Them?', Canberra Historical Journal, New Series no. 53, March 2004.
'The hidden lives of Helen Leishman', Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, no. 33, Spring 2003.
'The 1886-88 Reredos Issue', Anglican Historical Society Journal, (The Church of England Historical Society, Diocese of Sydney), vol. 48, no. 2, December 2003.
'My dear Lord Jersey - My dear Sir George Dibbs', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney, vol. 88, part 1, June 2002, pp. 20-35.
'The Private Papers of Baginda Omar of Terengganu (1844-1894). A preliminary report and a draft catalogue to the collection. Manuscripts in Insular South East Asia'. Workshop Papers on Malay Epistolography. Leiden, The Netherlands, Royal Institute for Linguistics & Anthropology (KITLV), January 2002.
'A Penang Kaddish: The Jewish Cemetery in Georgetown. A case study of the Jewish Diaspora in Malaysia (1830-1960)'. The Penang UNESCO Heritage Nomination Conference Papers. Penang Heritage Trust, April 2002.
'Malay Manuscripts in New Zealand. The "Lost" MS of the "Hikayat Abdullah" and other Malay MSS in the Thomson Collection at the Hocken Library in Dunedin', Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, December 2002.
'A Variant Version of The "Hikayat Iblis''', SARI:The Journal for Malay Cultural & Civilizational Studies vol. 20, July 2002, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia / The National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor.
'The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction', Queensland Review, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2002, pp. 67-87.
Steps to Federation: Lectures marking the Centenary of Federation (editor). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing in association with the Canberra and District Historical Society, 2001.
John Lang : Australia's larrikin writer barrister, novelist, journalist and gentleman. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2005.
Yesterday's Gardens: A History and Bibliography of Australian Gardening Books. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2002.
Selves Crossing Cultures: Autobiography and Globalisation, (editor). Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002. This collection includes my essay, '"A Tramp with Redskins": A British Colonial Administrator's Cross-Cultural Encounters'.
'Shame and Slaughter' (an essay on Robert Drewe's memoir, The Shark Net), Meanjin 3, 2002, pp. 97-105.
'Exploration Narratives and the Imperial Adventure Novel: The Curious Case of Sir Everard im Thurn and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, vol. 45, no. 2, January 2002, pp. 131-57.
Shameful Autobiographies: Shame in Contemporary Australian Autobiography and Culture. Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1999.
'The Myth of Aboriginal Barbarity: Perceptions of Colonial Women in Northern Australia during the 1870s', in Northern Encounters: New Directions in Northern Australian History, edited by David Carment. Darwin, NT: Charles Darwin University Press, 2004, pp. 111-126.
'Nan Phillips Lectures', in Canberra History 1953-2003: Celebrating 50 Years, edited by Chris Clarke. Canberra: Canberra & District Historical Society, 2003, pp. 46-50.
'Sisters under the Skin? Friendship: crossing the racial gulf', Crossings, vol. 7, no 3, December 2002. Also at http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings.
'Striking Out for Independence: Moves Towards Self-determination and Self-sufficiency on the Southern Monaro Property of Bibbenluke, 1861-1884', Labour History, no. 79, November 2000, pp. 123-139.
'Eat, Drink and be Merry: Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Canberra', in Canberra's Early Hotels: A Pint-sized History, edited by Shirley Purchase. Canberra: Canberra & District Historical Society, 1999, pp. 11-25.
'Closely Observed Trains: The Railway Compartment as a Locus of Desire in Victorian Culture', Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, vol. 53, 2001, pp. 111-138.
'The Unreliable Camera: Photography as Evidence in Mid-Victorian Fiction', Victorian Review, vol. 27, 2001, pp. 42-55.
Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley. London: Palgrave, 2000.
'Eating America: James M. Cain's Consuming Passion', Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 33, 1999, pp. 63-78.
The Land of the Golden Fleece: George Augustus Sala in Australia and New Zealand,(editor). Canberra: Mulini Press, 1995.
‘Exploring Gentry Women on the New South Wales Frontier in the 1820s and 1830s’, Women’s History Review, vol. 18, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 137-153.
‘Two English Immigrant Families in Australia in the 19th Century’, History of the Family, vol. 13, 2008, pp. 2-25.
‘British Literature and Australian Identity, 1880-1960’, in Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsay & Stuart Mcintyre (eds) Exploring the British World: Identity – Cultural Production – Institutions. RMIT Publishing: Melbourne, 2004, pp. 498-513. ISBN 0864593449. Published as an e-book.
‘Kinship and Accountability: The Diaries of a Pioneer Pastoralist Family, 1856-1898’, History Australia, vol. 2, no. 1, November 2004, pp. 04-1 - 04-14.
‘Setting Up Boundaries in Colonial Australia: Race and Empire’, Australian Historical Studies, no. 123, April 2004, pp. 152-166.
Identification and analysis of the Select Committees of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1824-1856. [Sydney]: NSW Parliamentary Library, 2004.
New South Wales Legislative Council 1824-1856 : abstracts of votes and proceedings : with an index / compiled by R.F. Doust. [Sydney]: NSW Parliamentary Library, 2004.
Confessing a Murder. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Sir Harold Nicholson and International Relations: The Practitioner as Theorist (Foreword by Sir Adam Roberts). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Sir Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper (1888-1968)' and 'Robert Balmain Mowat (1883-1941), Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The British Academy, 2004.
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 1: 1901-1929. (Assistant Editor and author of seven entries). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
'Sir Daniel McVey (1892-1972)' and 'James Vincent Moroney (1898-1965)', The Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 15, edited by J. D. Ritchie. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
'Sir Harold Nicolson and Diplomacy' (Paper presented to the University of Oxford, Foreign Service Programme), Oxford, 5 June 2000.
‘Between the Waitman’s Wars: 1914-42’, in Bougainville before the conflict, edited by Anthony J. Regan and Helga M. Griffin. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005.
'The Winds of Change: E.W.P.Chinnery (1887-1972) and F.G.G.Rose (1915-1991) in the Australian Territories', South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture (UPNG - Port Moresby), vol.5, 2001, pp. 50-93.
'The ACT Government's Vision for Canberra's Landscapes', Landscape Australia, vol. 24, no.3, 2002, pp. 23-25.
'Postcards from Europe', Landscape Australia, vol. 24, no. 4, 2002, pp. 30-34.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, edited by R. Aitken and M. Looker. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002 , pp. 51, 266-267, 295, 313, 431-432.
20th Century Heritage - Our Recent Cultural Legacy, edited by D. Jones. Victoria: Australia ICOMOS, 2002, pp. 413-416.
'The debate over where Australia’s first European residents were marooned in 1629 – Part 2', Hydrographic Journal, vol. 128-9, 2009, pp. 35-41.
Australia and the Origins of Agriculture. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008.
The landing site debate: Where were Australia’s first European residents marooned in 1629? In P. Hornsby and J. Maschke (eds), Hydro 2007 Conference Proceedings: Focus on Asia, pp. 105-129. Belrose: International Federation of Hydrographic Societies, 2008.
'The mystery of the Deadwater Wreck', International Hydrographic Review. vol. 9 no. 2, pp. 8-18.
The debate over where Australia’s first European residents were marooned in 1629 –Part 1', Hydrographic Journal, vol. 126, 2007, pp. 20-25.
A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry (editor, with Priscilla Bawcutt). Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006.
'"To Open a Door upon the Past of Scotland": Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991)' in Women Medievalists and the Academy edited by Jane Chance. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, pp. 733-46.
'Music and Sir David Lyndsay', in 'Notis Musycall'': Essays on Music and Scottish Culture in Honour of Kenneth Elliott, edited by Gordon Munro, Stuart Campbell, Greta-Mary Hair, Margaret A. Mackay, Elaine Moohan and Graham Hair. Glasgow: Musica Scotica Trust, 2005, pp. 133-141.
‘Dunbar and His Immediate Heirs’ in William Dunbar ‘The Nobill Poyet’: Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt, edited by Sally Mapstone. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001, pp. 85-107.
Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2000.
'Deus ex Machina: Arthur Wicks' Solstice Project', Art Monthly, no. 150, June 2002, pp. 9-10.
The Shape of Air (introductory essay for exhibition catalogue), Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2002.
'On the Role of the Curator of Historical Material' (conference workshop paper, Visual Arts, Craft and Design Special Interest Group) Once Upon Our Time, Museums Australia Annual Conference, Adelaide, March 2002.
'Naming Rites', Newsletter of the Friends of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, no. 88, Autumn 2002.
'Argonaut', Simon Buttonshaw; Land and Sea (exhibition catalogue). Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2002.
Captain Cook's Apprentice. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2008. This book won the NSW Premier's 2009 Young People's History Prize.
Animal Heroes. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2005.
Young Digger. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2002.
Forbidden. Ringwood, Vic: Puffin, 2002.
Soldier Boy : the True Story of Jim Martin the Youngest Anzac. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 2001. This book won the Ethel Turner Prize for young adult literature in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. It is the first time that a book of 19th or 20th century history has won the Ethel Turner Prize. Soldier Boy was an Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia 2002 awards.
'The cultural history of the eastern hemisphere subantarctic islands'. Refereed paper, IV International SICRI conference, Finland, 2008, www.sicri.org/ISIC4/index.html
'Half a square mile bigger'. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 12 no. 1, 2005, pp. 177–84.
'Champions of the past'. In Williams, Robyn (ed.) Australian science: expanding the frontiers. Sydney: Focus Publishing, 2001, pp. 14–33.
The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2000.
CSIRO checklist of economic plants in Australia. Melbourne: CSIRO, 1993 (with M. Lazarides).
“Canton to Gawler with a Hanoverian Consul: An ‘English’ Schoolboy in the Outback”, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 33, 2005, pp. 56-70.
Hatching an Air Force: 2 SFTS, 5 SFTS, 1 BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga. Maryborough, Qld.: Banner Books, 2002.
Empire Airmen Strike Back: The Empire Air Training Scheme. Maryborough, Qld.: Banner Books, 1999.
Ngambri ancestral names: for geographical places and features in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounds. Canberra: A. Jackson-Nakano, 2005.
The Pajong and Wallabalooa: a History from the Records of Aboriginal Farming Families at Blakney and Pudman Creeks, 1820-1945 and Historical Overview 1945-2002. Weereewaa History Series, vol. 2; Aboriginal History Monographs, 9. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc., 2002.
The Kamberri: a History from the Records of Aboriginal Families in the Canberra-Queanbeyan District and Surrounds 1820-1927 and Historical Overview 1928-2001. Weereewaa History Series, vol. 1; Aboriginal History Monographs, 8. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc. 2001.
Heritage and Native Title: Anthropological and Legal Perspectives: Proceedings of a Workshop Conducted by the Australian Anthropological Society and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra 14-15 February 1996. (edited with Julie Finlayson) Canberra: Native Title Research Institute, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1996.
Japanese Women: a Century of Living History. Adelaide, SA: Rigby, 1986.
'Myanmar in 2005: In a Holding Pattern', Asian Survey, vol. 56, no. 1, 2006, pp. 162-167.
Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar: Education, Health and Environment. London: Routledge Curzon, 2005.
Thailand Culture and Society Then and Now: Vol. 1, Trade, Culture and Society Before 1200 AD. Yangon: SEAMO Centre for History and Tradition, 2005.
'Myanmar's International Relations Strategy: The Search for Security', Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 26, no. 3, 2004, pp. 530-553.
Thai Reference Grammar. Bangkok: Duang Kamol Editions, 2001.
'China's International Socialization: The Role of International Organizations', Global Governance, vol. 8, no. 3, July-Sept. 2002, pp. 343-364.
'The Unpredictability of Liberal States: Australian and International Human Rights', The International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 6, no. 3, Autumn 2002, pp. 55-84
China, the United Nations and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993.
'Arthur Phillip Defensor de Co1ónia, Governador de Nova Gales do Sul' ('Arthur Phillip: Defender of Colônia, Governor of New South Wales'), Derroteros de la Mar del Sur, (Lima), año 9, núm.9, 2001, pp.61-72; Revista Naval, (Montevideo), no.40, agosto 2001, pp.113-122; and in O Português na Austrália, nos.1553, 1554, 1555, 21 and 28 August, 6 September 2002; and in Anais de História de Além-Mar [Portugal], 2005 no.6, pp.339-349 (presented at the V Simpósio de História Marítima e Naval Ibero-americana, Ilha Fiscal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25 to 29 October 1999). Also at: http://web.mala.bc.ca/black/amrc/index.htm?research.htm&2 (in English and Spanish) and (in Portuguese) at: http://derroteros.perucultural.org.pe/textos/derroteros9/king.doc
'The Timor Gap, Wonosobo and the Fate of Portuguese Timor', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 88, pt. 1, June 2002. Also at: http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/austjnls/view/324.html.
'Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente and his Reflexions on the English Settlements of New Holland', British Library Journal, vol. 25, no.1, 1999, pp. 55-76.
'Terra Australis, New Holland and New South Wales: the Treaty of Tordesillas and Australia', The Globe (Journal of the Australian Map Circle) no. 47, 1998 (first presented at the Vasco da Gama Quincentenary Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 21-24 June 1997). Also at: http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/austjnls/view/324.html.
'''Bahía Botánica y Liqueyos": Alexandro Malaspina and British designs in the Pacific', in Malaspina '93: Alessandro Malaspina e la sua spedizione scientifica (1789-1794), edited by Blanca Sáiz. Mulazzo: Centro di Studi Malaspiniani, 1995.
Macquoid of Waniassa : portrait of a colonial sheriff. Wanniassa, A.C.T. : Waniassa Publications, 2006.
'Excavating a Bonanza: Sarah Campion', Australian Literary Studies, vol 21, no. 3, 2004, pp. 350-361.
Rosemary Dobson : a Celebration, compiled and edited by Joy Hooton for the Friends of the National Library of Australia. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2000, pp. 37-44.
Gertrude the Emigrant, a Tale of Colonial Life - Louisa Atkinson, (editor). Canberra : School of English and Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA, in association with Mulini Press, 1998.
The Natural Art of Louisa Atkinson. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, c1995.
The Poetry of Gwen Harwood. Melbourne: Sydney University Press, in association with Oxford University Press, Australia, 1991.
Introduced and translated The Army Medical Service of the Imperial and Royal (k.u.k.) 14th Infantry Regiment (Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse) during World War 1 - a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Army as written by Dr.Leopold Strauss, the Regiment's last Chief Medical Officer. Aranda, ACT: Jean Main, 2002.
A Fragment of History : the Life of Brig. John Walter Main. Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1998.
William Findlay Main 1832-1906 : a Presbyterian Life of Faith.Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1994.
Transcribed and annotated The Barque "John" : a Voyage to the Land of Hope Gravesend to Adelaide 1839/1840. Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1994.
Mary Main and her Descendants : the Biography of a Family. Canberra: J. Main, 1993.
Governors Wives in Colonial Australia, by Anita Selzer. Canberra. (Historical Consultant and supplementary editor.) National Library of Australia, 2002.
'The Rolls Series', National Library News, August 2002.
'History on a Roll', National Library News, October 2002.
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, edited by Ann Millar, Vol 1, Senators Annabelle Rankin, Simon Fraser and Edward Millen. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
Coals to Newcastle: a History of Coal Loading at the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales 1797-1997. Wagga Wagga, NSW: Bobby Graham Publishers, 2002.
Joseph Lyons: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers. Canberra. National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002.
Urban Heritage: the Rise and Postwar Development of Australia's Capital City Centres. Canberra: Australian Council of National Trusts and Australian Heritage Commission, 2000. Published on the Internet in 2001 at: http://www.ahc.gov.au/publications/generalpubs/urban/.
Our House: Histories of Australian Homes (compiler, editor, contributor). Canberra: Australian National University & Australian Heritage Commission, 2001. Published on the Internet by the Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra at: http://www.heritage.gov.au/ourhouse.
'Access to Arts and Intellectual Life: a Fundamental Right?' Imaginative Country: Some Ideas on the Arts and Entertainment, and on the Humanities and Public Intellectual Life in Australia, edited by D. Horne and M. Travers. Sydney: NSW Centenary of Federation Committee, 2001.
South by northwest: the magnetic crusade and the contest for Antarctica. Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2006.
'Ships of the Spanish Main: Palacio on proportion and burden', The Mariner's Mirror, vol. 92, no 1, Feb 2006, pp. 88-93.
Ahab's Trade : the Saga of South Seas Whaling. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999.
Most Perfectly Safe : the Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997.
Fast Company : the Lively Times and Untimely End of the Clipper Ship Walter Hood 1852-1870. Hughes, ACT: Plainwords Press, 1994.
'In Search of a "Considerable River": Retracing the Paths of the Early Explorers to Lake George, the Limestone Plains and the Murrumbidgee', Canberra Historical Journal, vol. 45, March 2000, pp. 15-24.
'Charles Throsby in Australia', Leicestershire Historian, no 36, 2000.
Empty North: the Japanese presence and Australian reactions, 1860s to 1942. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press, 2006.
'Espionage and Paranoia: Assessing Australian Responses to "Japanese Activities" 1870-1947.' Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, vol. 11, March 2003, pp. 27-56.
'Who is One of Us? (Re)discovering the Inside-out of Australia's Japanese Immigrant Communities, 1901-1957", Japanese Studies, vol. 22, issue 3, December 2002, pp. 273-288.
'Interpreting "Japanese Activities" in Australia, 1888-1945', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no 36, May 2002.
'Japanese Immigrants and the Japanese Trading Company Network in Sydney 1880s - 1941.' in Changing Histories: Australia and Japan, edited by P.A. Jones and P.M. Oliver. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2001.
Media History (London), vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, 'Special Issue: Australian Media History in 2002', (edited with Denis Cryle).
'"We have Enemies to Oppose": Communication, Class and the Federation of Australia', Media History, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 35-47.
'Introduction', Media History, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 5-7 (with Denis Cryle).
'Communications', The Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by G. Davison, J. Hirst, S. MacIntyre, Revised Edition. South Melbourne: OUP, 2001, pp.142-144 (with Kevin Livingston).
Communication Traditions in Australia: Packaging the People, 2nd ed. South Melbourne: OUP, 2001. (with Glen Lewis).
Great Southern Land: the maritime exploration of Terra Australis. Canberra: Dept of the Environment and Heritage, 2006.
The Watermen of Gundagai, Gundagai: Old Gundagai Project Committee, 2002. (with B. O'Keefe and M. McIntyre)
Tracking the Dragon: a Guide for Finding and Assessing Chinese Australian Heritage Places. Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission, 2002.
'The Landscape of the Marginal Land: Cultural Landscapes in the Tinderry Ranges, New South Wales', Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and Communities, edited by M. Cotter, B. Boyd and J. Gardiner. Lismore: Southern Cross University Press, 2001
Australia: State of the Environment 2001: Natural and Cultural Heritage, Canberra: Department of the Environment and Heritage and CSIRO Publishing, 2001. (with J. Lennon, D. Marshall, P. McConville, S. Sullivan, W. Nicholls and D. Johnston)
Norse in the South: the Hansen Berg family: Hovding emigrants from Grue, Norway to New Zealand, then to tumut, Canberra and Melbourne, Australia. Canberra: Pam Ray, 2002.
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001.Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2001.
Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997.
Building a Forest Conscience: An Historical Portrait of the Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria, 1944-1990. Springvale: Natural Resources Conservation League, 1991.
'The Flaneur: 19th Century Australian Fun-maker', Margin: life and letters of early Australia, Canberra, no 58, Nov 2002, pp. 18-23.
Maturin's Medicine, at http://www.alia.org.au/~kwebb/Maturin/ 2002. An online glossary of the words and phrases in the Aubrey-Maturin books that are related to medical practice or general issues of human health.
Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography. Volume 3. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2004.
Australian Children's Fiction, The Subject Guide Update. Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda, 1996.
Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography. Volume 2. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne Univeristy Press, 1992.
Australian Children's Fiction, The Subject Guide. Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda, 1993.
The Source. http://www.magpies.net.au/ Magpies Magazine Pty Ltd, Grange, Qld.
'Of Bully Boys and Bigots', Conversations, vol. 2, no. 2, 2002, pp. 36-44.
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Entries for: P.D.F. Murray, vol. 15, 2000; G.F. Shepherd, A.R. Townsend, H.O. Townsend, vol 16, 2002.
Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Entries for: R.H.S. Abbott, W.K. Bolton, W. Senior and J.W. Shannon, vol. 1, 2000.
'The Distribution of Retino-geniculate Cells in the Tammar Wallaby in Relationto Decussation at the Optic Chiasm', Journal of Comparative Neurology, 405, 1999, pp. 128-140. (with R.F. Mark and M.R. Ibbotson )
'On the Backs of Turtles', The Age, 19 November 1996.
