On the cover this month
S.T. (Samuel Thomas) Gill (1818-1880)
[Port Adelaide, South Australia} [184-?]
watereolour; 20.8 x 33.9 cm
Pictures Collection,
nla.pic-an2376857
Some
10 million people emigrated from the British Isles during the
nineteenth century, among them 1.6 million free and assisted migrants
to Australia. Many of those arriving at Port Adelaide (depicted in S.T.
Gill’s watercolour above) would have been participating in E.G.
Wakefield’s 'Systematic Colonisation' Scheme, though ultimately that
scheme did not achieve the results which Wakefield intended. (See story
p. 4 this issue.)
June 2003 Volume XIII Number 9
NORMAN McCANN SUMMER SCHOLARS 2003
WAKEFIELD'S THEORY OF 'SYSTEMATIC COLONISATION'
Joanne Archer investigates E.G. Wakefield’s immigration theory, through an array of National Library resources
THE UNACKNOWLEDGED REPUBLIC: CIVIC HUMANISM IN THE 1890s
Sarah Irving investigates 1890s Australian republicanism through the Library’s Collection
THE POTENTIALITIES OF ORAL HISTORY: THE 'SEVEN YEARS ON' PROJECT
Ruth Nicholls discovers that there is more to the Library’s oral history holdings than you may initially think
THE 'CULTURAL CONTEXT OF UNEMPLOYMENT' PROJECT
Barry York describes one of the Library’s pioneering oral history ventures
VALUING OUR SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
Diana Giese visits the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre at the University of Melbourne
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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