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Recent AdditionsDecember 2011 - January 201 2to the Prahran mechanics’ institutevictorian history libraryInsideFiction 1Victorian history 1Other States 2Biography 3Military History 3Misc. Histories 3Historical SocietyPeriodicals 5Other Periodicals 7About the Pmi:140 High Street, Prahran(PO Box 1080Windsor VIC 3181)Ph/Fax (03) 9510 3393library@pmi.net.auwww.pmi.net.auOpen:Mon-Fri9.30am-4.30pmSat9.30am-1.00pmMembership:$12 individual$10 student/pensioner$30 institutionalPatron:Keith Dunstan OAMView the full catalogueby clicking the‘Catalogue’ link on thePMI homepage atwww.pmi.net.auTo reserve items pleasecall 9510 3393or emaillibrary@pmi.net.auor reserve onlineusing your member cardbarcode and pin.FICTIONGeneral fictionA cupboard full of coats / Yvvette Edwards 2011Derby Day / D.J. Taylor 2011Far to go / Alison Pick 2011On Canaan’s side / Sebastian Barry 2011The stranger’s child / Alan Hollinghurst 2011The street sweeper / Elliot Perlman 2011MysteriesCooking the books / Kerry Greenwood 2011Cradle to grave / Aline Templeton 2011Death comes to Pemberley / P.D. James 2011Flash and bones / Kathy Reichs 2011V is for vengeance / Sue Grafton 2011Australian literatureA dictionary of Australian colloquialisms / G.A. Wilkes 1978 [donatedby Mary-Louise Phillips]Anya : Countess of Adelaide / by Judith Armstrong 1998 [donated byMary-Louise Phillips]All that I am / Anna Funder 2011Blood / Tony Birch 2011Cold light / Frank Moorhouse 2011Dark clouds on the mountain / John Tully 2010Dusty : a dog of the sheep country / by Frank Dalby Davison new.ed.1962 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Fools’ paradise : life in an altered state / Ross Fitzgerald & Trevor L.Jordan 2011Hergesheimer Hangs In / Morris Lurie 2011On firmer shores / Serge Liberman 1981 [donated by Mary-LouisePhillips]Sensational Melbourne : reading, sensation fiction and Lady Audley’ssecret in the Victorian metropolis / Susan K. Martin and KylieMirmohamadi 2011The Colonial Queen / Peter Corris 2011The opal desert / Di Morrissey 2011The Penguin book of Australian war writing / edited by Mark Dapin2011Tiger men / Judy Nunn 2011VICTORIAN HISTORYBairnsdale Laughter and tears, down through the years : life in theConway Family, from Bairnsdale / as remembered by Eleanor Hatswell(nee Conway) 2005Caulfield The Caulfield railway disaster: carnage & courage : abiographical register of those associated with the Caulfield railwaydisaster of 26 May 1926 -- plus the story / Travis M. Sellers 2011Chelsea Bert’s boats / Jack Hummerstone 2010East Melbourne East Melbourne walk: a walk conducted by the Art

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012Deco and Modernism Society November 2011 [donated by Robin Grow]Euroa Unfolding history of Euroa and district / Loretta McPherson 2008Fairfield Fairfield Primary School 2711 : the Langridge Street knowledge emporium :celebrating 125 years: 1885-2010 / Emma Russell 2010Frankston Frankston Central Activities District heritage review / Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd 2010Geelong Irish in Geelong and district CD-ROM / Pam Jennings and Suzie Zada 2011Gippsland Gippsland sketchbook / Text by K.A. Austin ; drawings by Desmond Norman 1975Hamilton Hamilton : art deco & modernism / Diane Luhrs & Linley Bramall 2011 [donated byRobin Grow]High country The mountain men : and the Snowy River riders on the mountains make theirhome ... / written by James Cowan ; photographs by Colin Beard 1982Katandra Back to Katandra Easter 1977 / Back to Katandra CommitteeKatandra Hope and hardship / compiled by Katandra and District History Group Inc. 2010Langwarrin Garden of a lifetime : Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm / Anne Latreille2007Maryborough Maryborough: a social history 1854-1904 reprinted with revised and enlargedindex 2011Melbourne Images of Melbourne : (an A to Z of the Melbourne scene) : an eleventh book ofpaintings, poetry and prose / by Dacre Smyth 1998 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Melbourne St Francis’ Church, Melbourne Australia / Barbara Glover 1991 [donation]Mirboo North A history of the Mirboo North Swimming Pool ‘little spring to bird-bath’ / Mirbooand District Historical Society 2011Penshurst Exploring Penshurst / Mount Rouse and District Historical Society 20??Penshurst Memories from Penshurst’s past / Jack Chesswas 1997Penshurst Penshurst historical films [DVD] / Mount Rouse and District Historical Society 20??Penshurst Penshurst memories / Mat Brown 1979Port Melbourne In safe hands: presidents of the Port Melbourne Football Club / Terry Keenan2011Prahran The possible origins of Prahran College: B Ed Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1974Rutherglen History of early Rutherglen / written by G.J. Neuss 1914Terang Terang through the years: a pictorial history volume 2Terang Terang through the years: a pictorial history volume 3Villiers County The County of Villiers [electronic resource]: a short history of the county andthe complete set of parish maps / Mount Rouse and District Historical Society 20??Warragul History of the Warragul Bowling Club, 1897-1997 / Alan R. Jones 1997Williamstown Wandering in Williamstown 1995Yallourn When acorns grow : a history of the Yallourn Medical and Hospital Society / by LynSmith 1981OTHER STATESNSW Camden Camden : farm and village life in early New South Wales / Alan Atkinson 1988[donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]NSW Cummeragunga Mission Reminiscences of the Aboriginal station at Cummeragunga andits aboriginal people / by Ronald Morgan 1952NSW Hornsby Shire There must be a river : the history of the Hornsby Shire / Lorna Ollif 1981[donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]NSW Sydney Sydney town 1846-1851 : being a facsimile reproduction of six chapters from“Our antipodes; or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies with a glimpse of thegold fields.” With the addition of selected illustrative material of the period. / Arranged andpresented by Bill Hornadge 1971 [donated by Ken Penaluna]NSW Yulgilbar Corn beef and damper : lives of the Yulgilbar selectors / Isabel Wilkinson 1983?[donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]QLD Darling Downs Katie Hume on the Darling Downs, a colonial marriage : letters of acolonial lady, 1866-1871 / edited by Nancy Bonnin 1985 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]TAS Trowutta We were the first / by Seafield Deuchar 1973Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 2

BIOGRAPHYRecent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012I sang for my supper : memories of a food writer / Margaret Fulton 1999 [donated by UrsulaZamecnik]An outback life / Mary Groves 2011Buckley’s chance / Bob Stevens 2nd ed. 1998Danciing with warriors: a diplomatic memoir / Philip Flood 2011Doctor do-good : Charles Duguid and Aboriginal advancement, 1930s-1970s / Rani Kerin 2011Engineer to Marvellous Melbourne: the life and times of William Thwaites / Robert D. La Nauze2011Essington Lewis / Clive Turnbull 1963 [donated by Wilma Farrow]Greer, untamed shrew / Christine Wallace 1997 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Hazel : my mother’s story / Sue Pieters-Hawke ; assisted by Hazel Flynn 2011Housewife superstar : the very best of Marjorie Bligh / Danielle Wood 2011 [donated byJeremiah Sloane]JV Barry : a life / Mark Finnane ; with the assistance of John Myrtle 2007Long afternoon of the world / Graeme Kinross-Smith 2007 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Mawson : and the ice men of the heroic age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen / PeterFitzSimons 2011May Gibbs : more than a fairytale : an artistic life / Robert Holden & Jane Brummitt 2011Mo’s memoirs / Roy Rene 1945 [donation]Proud Australian boy: a biography of Russell Braddon / Nigel Starck 2011Sandbelters: memories of middle Australia / Robert Murray 2011Sea of dangers: Captain Cook and his rivals / Geoffrey Blainey 2010Something to declare: a memoir / Sir James Gobbo 2010The happiest refugee / Anh Do 2010The Swiss swagman : nineteen years in Australia / Theodore Mü ller 2007 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]This beauteous, wicked place : the letters and journals of John Grant, gentleman convict /Yvonne Cramer 2000 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]Tom Wills: the first wild man of Australian sport / Greg de Moore 2011Twelve makers of Australia / Colin and Margaret Kerr 1975 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]William Macmahon Ball : a memoir / Peter Ryan [donated by Wilma Farrow]William Witton 1811 - 1886 : almost perpetual curate / prepared and published by Rev. Dr BarryT. Brown 2011Woodfull : gentleman and scholar : a life of William Maldon Woodfull / Alan Gregory 2011MILITARY HISTORYANZACS on the Western Front : the Australian War Memorial battlefield guide / Peter Pedersenwith Chris Roberts 2012Desert boys : Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein / Peter Rees 2011MISCELLANEOUS HISTORIESA senior student’s guide to Australian history / C.P. French 1976 [donated by Ken Penaluna]Aphrodite and the mixed grill : Greek cafè s in twentieth-century Australia / Toni Risson 2007Australian home decorating / by Babette Hayes 1970 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Australian TV : the first 25 years / edited by Peter Beilby 1981 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]Australians (vol.2): Eureka to diggers / Thomas Keneally 2011Australia’s early dwellings and churches / paintings by Richard A. Smolicz ; text by W. WatsonSharp 1983 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Bad boys / John Kerr 2011Before the white man : Aboriginal life in prehistoric Australia / J. Peter White 1974 [donated byKen Penaluna]Bill Harney’s cook book / in collaboration with Patricia Thompson 1972 [donated by Mary-LouisePhillips]Burke & Wills : the scientific legacy of the Victorian exploring expedition / edited by E. B. Joyceand D. A. McCann 2011Captives of freedom : Free Methodism in Australia, 1837-1901 / Travis McHarg, Aubrey Quick2000Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 3

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012Farewell my children : Irish assisted emigration to Australia 1848-1870 / Richard E. Reid 2011Giving voice : a history of multicultural arts Victoria 2011Handbook to Victoria (Australia): a short description of the colony, its productions,manufactures, capabilities, especially with regard to its new agricultural industries andsettlement on the land / Victorian Commissioners for the Paris Exposition and 1878 [2010(1877)]In Leichhardt’s footsteps : more stories from the packhorse drover / Bruce Simpson 1997[donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Innocents abroad : the story of British child evacuees in Australia, 1940-45 / Edward Stokes1994 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]Life in the country [vol.2 of Australia in the Victorian Age] / Michael Cannon 1978 [donated byUrsula Zamecnik]Making a difference : a history of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia / Marlo L.Newton 2000 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Notes and recipes on invalid cookery and nutrition / compiled by Dorothy M. Giles and Ellen M.Rapley 194? [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]Our first fifty years, 1835-1885 [Victoria]Outback occupations / by Charles Shaw 1943 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]Postal unions and politics : a history of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia /[by] Frank Waters ; edited by Denis Murphy 1978 [donated by Ken Penaluna]Romance of the wool trade / by James Bonwick 1887 [donation]Servants of the Blessed Sacrament: Eucharistic communities 1950-1990 / Mary Wilson[donation]Shaping a new nation : Australian history and its background to 1914 [textbook] / Mark Howard1984 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]Sources of Australian history / selected and edited by Manning Clark 1957 [donated by WilmaFarrow]Tapestry of achievement : 60 years of the South Western district of the Country WomensAssociationTen thousand acres : a love story / Patrice Newell 2006 [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]The act of nursing: a history of nursing regulation in Victoria / Katherine Sheedy 2011 [donatedby Nurses Board of Victoria and Nurses Memorial Centre]The Australian Dream : a collection of anticipations about Australia from Captain Cook to thepresent day / selected and introduced by Ian Turner 1968 [donated by Wilma Farrow]The Bible Christian Church in Victoria : 1850s-1902 / Travis McHarg 2011The encyclopedia of Australian architecture / edited by Philip Goad and Julie Willis 2012[reference]The haunted palace [cinema] / Roger and Barbara SeccombeThe Information battlefield: representing Australians at war / edited by Kevin Foster 2011The road I shall travel : the 1893 diary of William Beckett / transcribed and edited with anintroduction and epilogue by Brian Giddings; biographical appendices by Valerie Beckett andWendy McLennan, and a foreword by Ian Breward [donated by Brian Giddings]The Weekly times pioneer cook book / edited by Doris van der Hagen 1981 [donated by Mary-Louise Phillips]This land of ours -- Australia / edited by George Farwell and Frank H. Johnston 1949 [donation]Twenty years’ hard labor / Leslie Haylen 1969 [donated by Ken Penaluna]Unfinished business: Paul Keating’s interrupted revolution / David Love 2009Victorian cricketers 1850-1978 / compiled and published by The Association of CricketStatisticans 1978Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere : continuing the journey ... / Douglas Stewart Fine Books2011 [donated by Douglas Stewart Fine Books]Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere : exhibited at the 38th Australian Antiquarian Book fair,State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 10th-12th November 2011 / Douglas Stewart FineBooks [donated by Douglas Stewart Fine Books]When the Olympic Games came to Melbourne / Amy Baker 2006 [donation]Why that name?: the story of the Cowhan family in Australia 1826-2008 / Wendy Eldridge[donated by Wendy Eldridge]Why weren’t we told? : a personal search for the truth about our history / Henry Reynolds 1999[donated by Ken Penaluna]Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 4

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 20121492: the year our world began / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2011HISTORICAL SOCIETY PERIODICALSAnglesea Anglesea and District Historical Society: coastal current SUMMER 2011-12: ArmytageStation p3. Birregurra Railway Station p4. Aireys Inlet Pub [Hotel] p5. Coorgoorah Park bridgesp5. 50 years of Alcoa and Anglesea partnership p6. The Surf Coast Family History Group:Inverlochy log: David Brewster 1847-1890 p3.Avoca Avoca and District Historical Society: Pyrenees pioneers No. 262 NOVEMBER 2011:Chinese memorial at Avoca Cemetery p3. Burials in un-marked graves in Avoca Cemetery:Charles Warburton Carr p3. William McOboy Wise, notable pioneer of Lamplough and Avoca p4.Alan Burge appointed curator of Avoca Cemetery p4.Ballan Shire Ballan Shire Historical Society: the settler Vol.10 no.6 DECEMBER 2011: FatherMichael O’Toole unveiling the plaque on the grave of Michael Tuohy, the last of the Eurekaprisoners 3rd Dec 2004 (photo) p1. A stroll through Ballan New Cemetery / June Huggins p3.Ballarat Ballarat Historical Society: the lamplight Vol.2 no.1 JANUARY 2012: Members of theBallarat Botanic [Botanical] Gardens Committee [James Oddie; George Longley; G.E. Binsted;W. Elliott; Thomas Lang; R.U. Nicholls; George Smith; W.C. Smith; William Appleby and RobertLewis] / Zelda Martin p3. Adam Lindsay Gordon cottage in the botanical gardens p5. GoldMuseum redevelopment p10.Benalla Benalla and District Family History Group: roses and thorns No. 80 NOVEMBER 2011:The croquet lawn, Benalla High School p1. Benalla High School p4. Benalla Technical School p4.Miss Mary Johannah Sullivan p6. Local pilot officer killed: Val Sheppard p6. Interschool sport tripp7. Kellam family history p9. William McCall Say MBE p10.Box Hill Box Hill Historical Society: newsletter Vol.17 iss.6 DECEMBER 2011: Australian rulesfootball in Box Hill / John Ure p4.Bright Bright and District Historical Society: newsletter Vol.11 iss.9&10 SEPTEMBER 2011:Honouring returned soldiers: Lance-Corporal F. Edwards, Privates H. and L. Cotty, and N.McFadyen entertained [from Alpine Observer, 11 Jul 1919] p2. Attempted murder [BenjaminButler shot William Wye] 1905 p4.Vol.11 iss.11&12 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011: The Klondike Goldfields: Australians and theKlondike Gold Rush in 1897-99 p1. McCormack family reunion at museum p4.Brighton Brighton Historical Society: journal No. 157 SPRING 2011: Historic homes ofBrighton: Biwa, 60 North Road (demolished 1997) p5. Cadby family of Brighton p7. VioletScarlett (Mrs Peebles) of Cadby Street / Barbara Brewer p8. Septimus Miller, Victorian RacingClub Chairman 1895-1907 p12.No. 158 SUMMER 2011: Brighton’s first policeman [Constable Ambrose Draper] / Paul Cook p5.Brighton Police Station: a brief history / Tracy Tulloch p7. Buxton’s 150 years [Buxton’s EstateAgency] / Malcolm Fredman p8. Historic homes of Brighton: Brighton Lodge, another landmarklost / Sandra Lanteri p10. From choir boy to munitions expert: Robert Ernest Summers /Jane Mayo Carolan p12. Historic happenings at St Andrew’s Graveyard [cemetery] / HeatherSanderson p13.Broadford Broadford and District Historical Society: Broadford times SUMMER 2011: Originalprinting press back on display in Courier office p1. Local identity Andrew Jacovou cont. p2.Murder of little girl, Rita Jones 1900 p4.Camperdown Camperdown and District Historical Society: newsletter Vol.22 no.1 JANUARY2012: Robert Burns statue repaired p3. Camperdown Soldiers Memorial, Manifold Street p4.The sculptor: Paul Raphael Montford 1868-1938 p5. Unveiling and dedication December 1929p5. Arthur Somers 1887-1944, Governor of Victoria p6. Sir Cyril Brudenell White 1876-1940 p7.Camperdown street names p7.Castlemaine Castlemaine Historical Society: newsletter Vol.27 no.1 JANUARY 2012: How toprint a good history book / Larry O’Toole p1.Coburg Coburg Historical Society: search No. 89 DECEMBER 2011: Coburg Cricket Club p2.Malcolm McIlvena p8.Dimboola Dimboola and District Historical Society: newsletter No. 178-9 DECEMBER 2011:Dimboola Banner: December 1961 / January 1962 p4. December 1936 / January 1937 p5.December 1911 / January 1912 p6. Obituary: Mr Samuel Crabb Osborne 1932 p7. Obituary:Arthur Cambridge, old colonist 1916 p7. Obituary: Mrs Eliza Cambridge 1928 p8.Doncaster and Templestowe Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society: newsletterDECEMBER 2011: The Sloyd Room cont. p1. World War Two rationing p2.Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 5

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012East Gippsland East Gippsland Family History Group and East Gippsland Historical Society: theblack sheep No. 79 NOVEMBER 2011: Grey skies and sombre thoughts at Anzac Cove [Gallipoli]/ Debbie Squires p6. Lone grave mystery at Strathfieldsaye p10. Harry Smith, stockman / PeterRobinson p12. In memorium: Jean Hardwidge; Kim Trenery; Ron Schrader p15.Frankston Frankston Historical Society: newsletter DECEMBER 2011: Frankston’s early settlers:Thomas McComb p5. Grace Richardson p6.Geelong Geelong Historical Society: investigator magazine No. 185 DECEMBER 2011:Chronology 1911: 4th quarter October - December from the Geelong Advertiser / JenniferBantow p103. Strathcona [origins of name, Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Lord Strathcona andMount Royal] / Barry M. Hill p111. Gilbert Toyne and his rotary clothes hoist / Peter Cuffleyp116. The Geelong Voices Oral History Project / Gwlad McLachlan p124. Letters: Lewis Bandtp126.Gisborne and Mount Macedon Gisborne and Mount Macedon Districts Historical Society:newsletter No. 75 DECEMBER 2011: Letter by Edward Dryden, from Macedon 1853 to CharlesJoseph La Trobe p2. Death of an old identity, Charles Cameron - Jan 1898 p2. Letter fromGeorge L. Woodworth to ratepayers 1897 p3.Hastings and Western Port Hastings Western Port Historical Society: newsletter No. 68DECEMBER 2011: Address by Valda Cole [early history of area] p3.Hawthorn Friends of the Auburn Tower: newsletter Vol.8 iss.1 SUMMER 2011: Sir Ronald Eastp3.Healesville Healesville and District Historical Society: history news DECEMBER 2011: MissionChurch, Nicholson Street, in its original position c1903-05 (photo) p1. Bryn Jones made lifemember p3.Heidelberg Heidelberg Historical Society: Heidelberg historian No. 267 DECEMBER 2011: TheArgus: a personal view of its history and importance / Janet Creed p1. Warringal ConservationSociety: its work at Banyule Flats / Anthea Fleming p3. The Rats of Tobruk: readings from astretcher-bearer’s diary [Leslie Thomas Perkins] / Marion Jones p5. Vale: Keith Anderson p8.Horsham Horsham Historical Society: Horsham historian No. 236 FEBRUARY 2012: HorshamMechanics’ Institute annual report 1912 p3. Joseph Hunter: hotel proprietor and aerated watermanufacturer / Paul Gerdtz p6.Inverloch Inverloch Historical Society: newsletter No. 170 JANUARY 2012.Knox Knox Historical Society: Knox historian SUMMER 2011: Ken Gilbert, dairy farmer / RayPeace and Ken Gilbert p4. Knox history online [Trove] p7. Carnage on Boronia Crossing [railwayaccidents] / Ray Peace p8. Boronia High School: its first year: from a 1967 Boronia High Schoolmagazine, written by H.A. Russell / Murray Snell p12. Dinsdale 1928 Chevrolet p14.Koo-Wee-Rup Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp Historical Society: newsletter No. 332 DECEMBER 2011:Vale: Olive Poole p2. Prisoner of War Camp at Koo-Wee-Rup / Heather Arnold p3.Kyneton Kyneton Historical Society: the chronicle Vol.12 no.1 JANUARY 2012: Inquest: AngusMackay 1876 p2. Kyneton High School 100 years p3. Kyneton Cemetery: Herbert Arthur Aitkenp4. Kyneton fifty years ago (written in 1931) p6. Tranter / Bracey / Elderfield family p6. Kynetonhome gardens 1917 p7. Kyneton timeline 1857-1860 p8.Lakes Entrance Lakes Entrance Historical Society: lakes log Vol.3 iss.7 DECEMBER 2011:Anchor placed in front of Lakes History Centre p1. Call of the Sea Exhibition p1. Wooden bridgesp2. Men’s hairstyles p3. Come wind come weather: Alfred Howitt [book review] p4. JohnCarpenter p6. Alfred Fish family p7.Learmonth Learmonth and District Historical Society: newsletter DECEMBER 2011: BallaratShire presidents: James Baird p3. David Baird p4.Malvern Malvern Historical Society: local history news No. 34 DECEMBER 2011: MalvernCricket Ground and Club p2. Stonington vs Stonnington [name origin] p3. Malvern Tradesmen’sInstitute [later Malvern Club] p4. Indexing of newspapers / Diane Nicholas p5.Merbein Merbein District Historical Society: Merbein historian No. 46 DECEMBER 2011: GeoffTalbot and the restoration of the ‘Perserverance’, small, light, single skull belonging to AngusFoster p4. Angus Holden Foster: ‘the father of rowing’ / Bernadette Wells p5. Celebrating 100years of Fishers Stores [Fisher family] p9. Eleanor West [nee Farrant] and West family p12.Mildura Mildura and District Genealogical Society: the grapeline Vol.11 no.4 DECEMBER 2011:Celebration of completion of Mildura Cemetery project. Margaret Agnes Smith nee Gallagher/ Jean Firth p4. Crozier family p6. John Heron Shilliday p7. Mr John P. Crozier 1876-1938 p8.Arthur Edward Rains and Florence Ethel Rains p9. Jean Irene Roberts 1890-1969 p10. JohnThomas William Dedman 1915-2008 p12. Paul Emil Greatz / June Greatz p15.Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 6

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012Mortlake Mortlake and District Historical Society: historical news Vol.13 iss.1 FEBRUARY2012: Lauchlan Mackinnon of ‘Mount Fyans’ 1817-1888 / Craige Proctor and Florence Charlesp2. Phillis Hucker (nee Dohle), formerly of Mortlake and Willaura: memories p5. MortlakeRacecourse grandstand (Mortlake Dispatch article 18 Mar 1899) p7. Mortlake State Schoolgrades 5-8 1932: group portrait with names p8.Morwell Morwell Historical Society: Morwell post DECEMBER 2011: Morwell Fire Brigade p4.Stanley G. Winchester p6. Purvis Stores Supermarket, Buckley Street p8. ‘Lurgi’ Gas Plant 1956p9. Eric Lubcke, unveiling of memorial plaque p11.Newstead Newstead and District Historical Society: newsletter NOVEMBER 2011: Strangwaystimeline.JANUARY 2012: Starting of the Leichhardt search party (article 4 Jul 1865) p2.Nhill Nhill and District Historical Society: newsletter No. 32 JANUARY 2012: Gardner - Duftywedding 19 Apr 1898 p3.Port Fairy Port Fairy Historical Society: newsletter Vol.9 no.13 JANUARY 2012: Port Fairy 1976-2012 / Marten and Angela Syme p1. Andrew Halley Knight p6.Port Melbourne Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society: newsletter JANUARY 2012:Princes Pier open.Sandringham Sandringham and District Historical Society: newsletter FEBRUARY 2012: FernhillRoad research p3. Pic Nic Hotel [Tucker’s Picnic Hotel] p4.Shepparton Shepparton Family History Group and Shepparton Heritage Centre: Furphymurmurs No. 42 OCTOBER 2011: Colin Gilmour, Cobram p3. Shire of Rodney rate booksphotographed p5. Prominent people: William Robert Banner p6.Smythesdale Woady Yaloak Historical Society: historic happenings No. 321 DECEMBER 2011:Christmas on the goldfields in the 1850s p4. Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch p6.No. 322 JANUARY 2012: Lewis and Perrott’s Homestead Black Hill, Scarsdale circa 1861 [photo]p1. From tents to town [beginnings of Smythesdale] / Margaret Roberts p4.Stawell Stawell Historical Society: newsletter OCTOBER 2011: Australian Women’s League,World War Two: Stawell branch (group portrait with names) p2. 1987: corroboree tree blowndown in gale force winds p3.Terang Terang and District Historical Society: newsletter OCTOBER 2011: The Noorat Show p2.Doctors in Terang p6. Memorial Avenue Fountain: unveiling 1940 p7.Traralgon Traralgon and District Historical Society: bulletin Vol.42 no.4 DECEMBER 2011: Lifealong the Traralgon Creek / Darell Blewett p6. The Gippsland Shale and Oil Company Ltd / JimEnever p12.Wangaratta Wangaratta Family History Society: Wangaratta threadsNo. 88 NOVEMBER 2011: The Warby family of Wangaratta and their descendents p6.Warracknabeal Warracknabeal and District Historical Society: warunda review Vol.46 no.1FEBRUARY 2012: Scott Street circa 1940 (photo with names of businesses) p3.Warrnambool Warrnambool Branch of the AIGS: south-west genealogist No. 219 OCTOBER2011: Historicals: October 1885 p2.Whitehorse Whitehorse Historical Society: newsletterSeries 19 no.6 NOVEMBER 2011: Commemoration of Schwerkolt land purchase p1. The JohannAugust Schwerkolt story p4. Lot 128: an introduction to some indigenous traditions andarchaeological findings p5.Williamstown Williamstown Historical Society: timeball times No. 247 JANUARY 2012: LenoreCrescent part 1 / Ian D. Rae p3. Maxwelltown / Roseangle / Brian Haynes p4.OTHER PERIODICALSAdam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee: the wayfarerNo. 20 DECEMBER 2011: John Riddoch: one of Adam Lindsay Gordon’s greatest friends.Art Deco and Modernism Society: spirit of progress No. 47 SPRING 2011: Foro Italico andEUR - Rome p5. Commonwealth Bank Building, 219-225 Bourke Street, Melbourne p10. Flyingdown to Rio p12. Deco doorways of Potts Point p18. Essendon Airport revisited p20. Socialistrealism in Vietnam p23. Gruen wrist watches p27.Australian National Placenames Survey: placenames Australia DECEMBER 2011: Anamescape of Melbourne [names of cities, shires and suburbs] / Arne Bolling p1. Morooberrathe person, and Maroubra the place p3. The riddle of Riddlesdale [Qld] p8. Busselton p9.Bunbury p9. Australind p9. Collie p10. Donnybrook p10. Bridgetown p10.Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 7

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian division): newsrail Vol.39 no.12DECEMBER 2011: The Ballarat to Maryborough line and its branches 1975-2010 part 3 / ChrisBanger p359.Vol.40 no.1 JANUARY 2012: Straight thru’ [50th anniversary of opening of standard guage linkbetween Wodonga and Melbourne] / John Scott p7. The Gang / Lloyd Holmes p13.Australian Railway Historical Society: Australian railway history Vol.62 no.890DECEMBER 2011: Beauty trifling with power: Capitol Theatre ballet girls and 5701 / TrevorEdmonds p3. Railway women in NSW / Jim Longworth p6. Idealised railway women: depictionsof women in NSW railway publicity / Jim Longworth p14. On-train railway fashion of the1960s-1970s / Jim Longworth p22. Keeping house on the Trans-Australian Railway: five monthsat Ooldea in 1981 / Julie Edmonds p31. Travelling with father: a teenage daughter and the ChiefTraffic Manager of the New South Wales Government Railways / Pam Body (nee Denniss) p35.The railway queens: charitable fund raising competitions during World War II / Trevor Edmondsp39. It’s not just ‘the blokes’ / David Wynter p42.Vol.63 no.891 JANUARY 2012: Weevils, rodents and the NSW Railways: the 1917 and 1940mouse plagues and their aftermath (part 1 of a trilogy celebrating the role of the NSW Railwaysin wheat transportation) / Neville Pollard p3. Victorian Railways proposed broad gauge Beyer-Garratt Locomotives / Philip Dunn p13. Courtroom travels: how a deposition clerk for the NSWLands Department clocked-up a quarter of a million miles or rail travel in just four years! / LeonOberg p26.BBC history magazine Vol.12 no.10 OCTOBER 2011: How Polynesians ‘discovered’ Americap12. Matilda: the conquerer’s queen [wife of William the Conquerer] p18. Soviet author VasilyGrossman p24. Douglas Haig p33. Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth’s security chief p43.A history of science in ten and a half objects p50. Alfred the Great and the Vikings p78. BattleAbbey, East Sussex [site of the Battle of Hastings] p84. Venice 1500 p88. My history hero:Kathleen Kenyon 1906-78 [pioneering archaeologist] p98.Vol.12 no.11 NOVEMBER 2011: King Edward III: the family man p20. Dressing to impress[fashion in the 17th century] p30. Petitions and petitioning p35. An A to Z of the Plantagenetsp37. The last photographs of Captain Scott p44. The untold Second World War p50. Did conkershelp win the First World War? p56. Early Roman Britain p78. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire p84.Kiev 978 AD p88. My history hero: Clarence Willcock 1896-1952, politician p98.Vol.12 no.13 CHRISTMAS 2011: Cold war in the Middle East [relations between Israel and Iran]p16. No Christmas under Cromwell? p20. Guilty women? [vilification of women supportingChamberlain’s appeasement policy] p26. How George and Mary saved the royal family [GeorgeV] p32. Red letter days: ten milestones in the history of the post office p39. Drowning in TudorEngland p46. Britain’s Pearl Harbour [Japanese attack on British colony of Malaya] p50. Themen who escaped the tower [escapees from the Tower of London over the centuries] p57.Books of the year p61. Where history happened: Charles Dickens, his life and works p76. Placesthat made Britain: West Stow, Suffolk [early Anglo-Saxon settlement] p82. Havana 1959 p86.My history hero: Robert Tyre Jones 1902-71 p98.Cinema and Theatre Historical Society: cinema record Issue 72 2011: Reminiscences ofthe Boondall Drive-In Theatre [Qld] / Ian Day p8. Pictures at the Ponds: a centenary in thesuburbs [Moonee Ponds cinemas] / Ross King p12. Newtown’s forgotten gem: the Trocadero[Newtown, NSW] / Robert Parkinson p19. A lifetime of entertainment across a nation / PeterKeogh p22. Balgowlah matinees [NSW] / Kel Woodside p26. John Payne recounts a past visitto Queensland’s silent-movie house [Majestic Theatre, Pomona] p27. Across America / MikeTrickett p30. The National Theatre [Melbourne]: quest for a home part 2 / Robert Taylor p31.Queensland weekend: CATHS tour 22-3 Oct 2011 p34.Genealogical Society of Victoria: ancestor Vol.30 no.8 DECEMBER 2011: My ancestry:Maria Goldsworthy p4. Farewell my children: mid-19th century Irish emigration to Australia / DrRichard Reid p7. What kind of settlement? [early Sydney] [cont. from Sep 2011 issue] / GraceKarskens p10. Maria’s story / Barry Parsons p36. Mapping for family histories p41.Genealogists Using Microcomputers: Victorian G.U.M. Inc. newsVol.28 no.5A JANUARY 2012.Vol.28 no.7 FEBRUARY 2012.Inside history magazine No. 8 JANUARY 2012: Liz Pidgeon, family history librarian atPrahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 8

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012Yarra Plenty Regional Library p10. Analysing photographs p14. Lorraine Purcell, Hill End andTambaroora Gathering Group, NSW: curating history in a goldfields town p24. 70th anniversaryof bombing of Darwin p26. Was your ancestor a player? [actors, entertainers] p39. DiscoveringMaori links p42. William Mackie Turnbull and the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne p46.Histories of Motherhood Symposium p50. On Norfolk Island time p54. Henry Baldwin andMarkree Museum, Hobart p60. Who was the real Ludwig Liechhardt? p66. Wally Balmus [bornWalter Wheatley], gymnast p74.National Library of Australia: the National Library magazine Vol.3 no.4 DECEMBER 2011:Ten centuries of manuscript treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin p2. Australian butterflyand moth illustrations p8. Alexander Crane, social worker, Sydney 1920s and 30s p11. LillieYounghusband and her album of keepsakes, South Australia, 19th century p12. Sandow’s rightarm [Eugen Sandow 1867-1925, strongman] p16. Ray Mathew lecture: Susan Johnson p18.Australians abroad: ballet designs by Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd p21. Marketing Australia inthe 1930s p24. John Dixon and the comic strip ‘Air Hawk’ p28.Professional Historians Association (Vic.): Circa journal No. 2 2011: Oral history from theashes: a discussion with the curators of the Victorian Bushfires Collection (Museum Victoria)/ Catherine McLennan p3. We have kept no archives and our name is Smith: writing a historyof A.E. Smith & Son, an Australian family firm spanning three centuries / Juliet Flesch p13.The Victorian Premier’s Department: administrative history as social history / Robert Pascoep23. Off with the fairies: the lost history of Ola Cohn / Barbara Lemon p31. Stuart Hawthorne:Queensland’s first headmaster / Sophie Church p41. Who rocked the cradle: the impact ofwomen in the development of a Victorian gold mining town [Ballarat] / Dorothy Wickham p51.Shaping a family archive / Louise Blake p63. Archives, oral history, and Australian refugee policy/ Claire Higgins p69. Reflecting on history, entertainment and new media / Lucy Bracey p75.Royal Historical Society of Victoria: history news No. 293 JUNE 2011.No. 293 JUL / AUG 2011. No. 294 SEPT / OCT 2011. No. 295 NOV / DEC 2011.Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Victorian historical journal Vol.82 no.1 JUNE 2011:In defence of George Higinbotham: new evidence on family relationships / Susan Priestleyp8. The arrival and settlement of Macedonians in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne /Nick Anastasovski p30. Facts, speculation and fibs in the ‘Mahogany Ship’ story 1835-2010: areassessment and new hypothesis / Murray Johns p59. Community cookbooks: women’s wordsand hospitality at Bayswater Church of Christ 1962-1990 / Kerrie Handasyde p86. Singing in‘a sort of musical chaos’: Dame Nellie Melba and the campaign to lower the pitch of the GrandOrgan in the Melbourne Town Hall / Simon Purtell p105.Vol.82 no.2 NOVEMBER 2011: A royal birthday message [centenary of the ‘Victorian HistoricalJournal’] / Andrew Lemon p147. Victorian Historical Journal 1987-1989: ‘authoritative but notacademic’ / John Lack p155. ‘My native place’: Alfred Deakin in Fitzroy / Carole Woods p158.Who designed Melbourne’s sewerage system? / Robert La Nauze p175. Isabella Lucy Bird: hervisit to Victoria in 1872: the forgotten tourist / Ian Clark p194. The trail to Wonnangatta 1936:introduction / Peter Hogan p212. The trail to Wonnangatta / Trevor W. Davey p217. From abbeyto athenaeum: John Henry Benedict Curtis 1829-1909 [Secretary, Melbourne Athenaeum] /Margaret Bowman p236. From Foot-is-cry to Firenze: remembering Bill Kent 1942-2010 / JohnLack p246.State Library of Victoria Foundation: the La Trobe journalNo. 88 DECEMBER 2011: Inventing the Melbourne Cup / Andrew Lemon p4. 1861-62: seminalyears in the publishing history of illustrated newspapers in colonial Australia / Peter Dowlingp13. The opening of the Museum of Art at the Melbourne Public Library, 24 May 1861 / AlisonInglis, Fiona Moore and Pamela Tuckett p27. The Victorian Art Exhibition 1864-65 / MichaelWatson p40. Images of Melbourne published in the illustrated newspapers, 1860-1862 p52. Twopaintings depicting the tragic end to the Victorian Exploring Expedition, 1860-1861 p57. Thelibrary publicises its collection: the first catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library / John Arnoldp63. The battle for the lands: glimpses from a squatter’s correspondence / Maggie Black p65.‘View of Melbourne from the Observatory 1858’ by George Rowe / Gerard Hayes p80. Death inthe picture collection: four inquests, three suicides and a drowning / Christine Bell p84. CharlesLa Trobe in Neuchatel: a research report / John Barnes p92. Father and son: John Goulson Burttand John Wesley Burtt / Madeleine Say p102. The mystery of the Peruvian photographs / OlgaTsara p118. Momentous for time and eternity: the photographic portrait of Miss Marion HentyPrahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 9

Recent Additions - December 2011 - January 2012/ Suzanne McWha p129. The search for artistic professionalism in Melbourne: the activities ofthe Buonarotti Club, 1883-1887 / Stephen F. Mead p136. Images relating to Melbourne in theillustrated Australian newspapers 1860-62 / Peter Dowling p148.Theatre Heritage Australia: on stage Vol.12 no.4 SPRING 2011: Vivat Regina!: Melbournecelebrates The Maj’s 125th birthday [Her Majesty’s Theatre] p1. Curtains for Sydney’s Royal?[Theatre Royal] p4. Bran nue dae: part 1 of the 12th in a series of articles about importantAustralian musicals / Peter Pinne p5. Melba - or never again [Dame Nellie Melba and the ‘Melbamethod’] / Beverley Nichols p8. Remembering [Beverley] Nichols remembering Melba / RobertMorrison p9. The Myer mural overhaul / Frank Van Straten p10. ‘A brown slouch hat’ - 70 yearson: Australia’s most popular World War Two song [Jenny Howard, George Wallace] / EddieTrigg p12. Lifetime achievement award for Maggie Dence p13. Melbourne stage-by-stage: TheEsquire, 238 Bourke Street, Melbourne / Ralph Marsden p14. Richard Watson: his recordedlegacy p18. Light fantastic [Coles Fountain, Parliament Gardens to be funded by John TruscottDesign Foundation] p19. The Teachers: Maie Hoban / Peter Stephenson Jones p20. ArthurWing Pinero part 17: ‘The second Mrs Tanqueray’ / Elisabeth Kumm p23. Wonderful Waterford[Ireland] / Frank Van Straten p26. Horsham Town Hall: art deco treasure saved p28. LanceMulcahy (originally Mulcahey), Australian composer / Peter Pinne p32. The Sound of Music - 50years on / Frank Van Straten p38. Helpmann Awards for 2011 p40. Exeunt [obituaries] p42-50: Doug Ashton OAM. Diane Cilento. Harold Collins MBE. Joy Youlden Connor. ChristopherDoig CNZM OBE. Rose Jackson. Rhyl Kennell. Jeffrey Kovel. Gracie Le Brun. Geoff McComas.Canon Albert McPherson. Bill Newman. David Ngoombujarra. Peter Oyston. Fay Pasky. GeorgePikler. Kenny Powell. Ray Taylor. Tikki Taylor. ‘Madam’ Pat Thompson. Pamela, Lady Vestey.Jon Weaving. Andy Whitfield. Roger Butlin. Lilias Jessie Carmichael MBE. Neil Collins. BettyDriver. John Howard Davies. Peter Hepworth. Allan Clyde Holding. Max Kitson. Bento Lima. JohnMcCarthy. Lionel Rose MBE. Sheila Sibley. Leonard Stone. Greg Stevens. Bob Tasman-Smith.Sarah Watt. Dulcie Gray CBE. Sydney needs a new theatre p51.Uniting Church Historical Society: proceedings Vol.18 no.2 DECEMBER 2011: ThePresbyterians and the separation of church and state in Vanuatu: a historical perspective /Helen Gardner p5. Freeing the churches in Scotland to live under the headship of Christ / IanBreward p20. Compassion, innovation, sacrifice [ordination of John Flynn] / Gregor Hendersonp33. Joseph Orton: Wesleyan missionary / Alistair Orton p38. Sarah Orton / Alison Head p50.How Jean [Yule] defeated the Barrier Act / Peter Aumann p65. The 1893 diary of WilliamBeckett / Brian Giddings p77. William Witton: ‘almost perpetual curate’ / Barry T. Brown p87.Prahran mechanics’ institute victorian history library 10