National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 60 | December 2002


2003 Harold White Fellows Announced

The National Library has announced the award of four Harold White Fellowships for 2003. The Fellows, two from Australia and two from overseas, will spend periods of three to four months in the Library carrying out research on quite disparate topics.

Carl Bridge taught history at the University of New England for many years before becoming Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at London University in 1997. He has written extensively on diplomatic, military and political history and was also the author of A Trunk Full of Books: A History of the State Library of South Australia and its Forerunners (1986). As a Harold White Fellow, he will be returning to his early interest in the career of the Australian politician and diplomat Lord Casey. The Library holds the Casey diaries and Professor Bridge will be preparing a scholarly edition of the diaries that Casey kept in 1940–42, when he was the first Australian Minister in Washington.

Gary Catalano, who lives outside Melbourne, has been writing and publishing poems for over 30 years. In addition, his numerous essays on Australian poetry and art have appeared regularly in Quadrant, Art Monthly and other journals. His most recent book was The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and His Art (2001). Mr Catalano is now embarking on a biography of the poet, grazier, fighter pilot and Rugby Union international, David Campbell (1915–79). The Library holds the papers and manuscripts of Campbell. His letters and other writings can also be found in the papers of Rosemary Dobson, Manning Clark, Geoffrey Dutton, A.D. Hope, Bob Brissenden and other friends and fellow-writers.

Ryan Dunch was an undergraduate at the Australian National University and went on to do postgraduate studies in North America. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. He has a strong interest in Christianity in China and is the author of Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China (2001). As a Harold White Fellow, Dr Dunch will be pursuing this interest, focussing on Protestant missionary writings published between 1807 and 1911. He will make heavy use of the London Missionary Society Collection, comprising about 600 pamphlets and other publications containing not only translations of the Bible and Protestant texts but also studies by missionaries of Chinese language, literature and culture.

Angus Trumble, now a freelance researcher and formerly the Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, has had a long interest in Anglo-Australian relations in the 19th century. He assisted Davis McCaughey in his study of the early governors of Victoria, and more recently edited Love and Death; Art in the Age of Queen Victoria (2001). He is now proposing to look at a number of episodes that illustrate aspects of the social and cultural history of Britain and its colonies. They range from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other Pre-Raphaelite artists and their fascination with wombats, to the art collection which accompanied Lord Brassey when he became Governor of Victoria in 1895. Mr Trumble will be delving into the Library’s comprehensive collection of 19th-century books, periodicals and newspapers, as well as the Manuscript and Pictures Collections.

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