Family History And Historians In Australia And New Zealand

Author : Malcolm Allbrook,Sophie Scott-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000403145

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Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand by Malcolm Allbrook,Sophie Scott-Brown Pdf

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with family historians, their common causes and conversations. It brings together leading and emerging Australian and New Zealand scholars to consider the relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of family history to extend the scope of historical inquiry, even to revitalise the discipline. In Anglo-Western culture, the roots of the discipline’s professionalisation lay in efforts to reconstruct history as objective knowledge, to extend its subject matter and to enlarge the scale of historical enquiry. Family history, almost by definition, is often inescapably personal and localised. How, then, have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced the thought and practice of historical enquiry?

Author : Tanya Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350212107

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Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship by Tanya Evans Pdf

Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals' understandings of themselves and the world. This book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking family history research for individuals and society more broadly. In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history, including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship reveals that family historians collect and analyse varied historical sources, including oral testimony, archival documents, pictures and objects of material culture. This book reveals how people are thinking historically outside academia, what historical skills they are using to produce historical knowledge, what knowledge is being produced and what impact that can have on them, their communities and scholars. The result is a necessary revival of the current perceptions of family history.

Author : Trevor Parkhill,William Roulston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1913993108

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The Irish in Australia and New Zealand by Trevor Parkhill,William Roulston Pdf

It is estimated that 8 million men, women and children emigrated from Ireland in the nineteenth century, of whom some five per cent, a not-insignificant proportion, found their way to Australia and New Zealand. Just as significantly, The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998, p. 31) considers that Irish migrants 'made up nearly a quarter of all immigrants [to Australia] during that period'. The significance of the historic links between Ireland, particularly the nine counties of the historic province of Ulster, and Australia and New Zealand, are explored in The Irish in Australia and New Zealand: A Resource for Family Historians.

Author : Jerome De Groot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000643039

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Double Helix History by Jerome De Groot Pdf

Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of ‘new’ knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history. Since the mapping of the human genome in 2001, there has been an expansion in the use of genetic information for historical investigation. Geneticists are confident that this has changed the way we know the past. This book considers the practicalities and implications of this seemingly new way of understanding the human past using genetics. It provides the first sustained engagement with these so-called ‘genomic histories’. The book investigates the ways that genetic awareness and practice is seemingly changing historical practice and conceptualisation. Linking six concepts – ‘Public’, ‘Practice’, ‘Ethics’, ‘Politics’, ‘Self’, and ‘Imagination – Double Helix History outlines the ways that genetic information, being postgenomic, the public life of DNA, and the genetic historical imaginary work on the body, on collective memory, on the historical imagination, on the ethics of historical investigation, on the articulation of history, and on the collection and interpretation of data regarding the ‘past’. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in DNA, genetics, and historiography.

Author : Carole Riley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1921956119

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Land Research for Family Historians in Australia and New Zealand by Carole Riley Pdf

Land research can tell us so much about how our ancestors lived and worked. It can help us find out the truth about stories we’ve heard, and can give us a much richer picture of our ancestors’ social and economic position. It they owned a house, business premises or rural property there are records to be found, many of which contain a wealth of information.

Author : David M. Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118508923

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A Companion to Public History by David M. Dean Pdf

An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public history as a distinct field of historical inquiry in North America, the importance of popular history and ‘history from below’ in Europe and European colonial-settler states, and forms of historical consciousness in non-Western countries and peoples. It also provides a timely guide to the state of the discipline, and offers an innovative and unprecedented engagement with methodological and theoretical problems associated with public history. Generously illustrated throughout, The Companion to Public History’s chapters are written from a variety of perspectives by contributors from all continents and from a wide variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. It is an excellent source for getting readers to think about history in the public realm, and how present day concerns shape the ways in which we engage with and represent the past. Cutting-edge companion volume for a developing area of study Comprises 36 essays by leading authorities on all aspects of public history around the world Reflects different national/regional interpretations of public history Offers some essays in teachable forms: an interview, a roundtable discussion, a document analysis, a photo essay. Covers a full range of public history practice, including museums, archives, memorial sites as well as historical fiction, theatre, re-enactment societies and digital gaming Discusses the continuing challenges presented by history within our broad, collective memory, including museum controversies, repatriation issues, ‘textbook’ wars, and commissions for Truth and Reconciliation The Companion is intended for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in the rapidly growing field of public history and will appeal to those teaching public history or who wish to introduce a public history dimension to their courses.

Author : Chris Paton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526768391

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Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet by Chris Paton Pdf

From search engines and databases to DNA platforms, discover how to easily learn more about your Scottish ancestry online with this helpful guide. Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far predates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its historical records accessible, to help those with Caledonian ancestry trace their roots back to earlier times and a world long past. In Tracing Scottish Family History on the Internet, Chris Paton expertly guides the family historian through the many Scottish records offerings available, but also cautions the reader that not every record is online, providing detailed advice on how to use web based finding aids to locate further material across the country and beyond. He also examines social networking and the many DNA platforms that are currently further revolutionizing online Scottish research. From the Scottish Government websites offering access to our most important national records, to the holdings of local archives, libraries, family history societies, and online vendors, Chris Paton takes the reader across Scotland, from the Highlands and Islands, through the Central Belt and the Lowlands, and across the diaspora, to explore the various flavors of Scottishness that have bound us together as a nation for so long.

Author : C. Coleborne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230248649

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Madness in the Family by C. Coleborne Pdf

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.

Author : Paul Ashton,Alex Trapeznik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350033276

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What Is Public History Globally? by Paul Ashton,Alex Trapeznik Pdf

Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence. This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.

Author : Geoffrey Burkhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Australia
ISBN : 064643179X

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Researching Australian School Records by Geoffrey Burkhardt Pdf

Author : Cyndi Howells
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0806316780

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Cyndi's List by Cyndi Howells Pdf

A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet.

Author : Nicholas Birns,Nicole Moore,Sarah Shieff
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603292894

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Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature by Nicholas Birns,Nicole Moore,Sarah Shieff Pdf

Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality--one often challenged by history, starting with the appropriation of land from their Indigenous peoples. This volume explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations' literatures by considering literary and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local. Contributors share their experiences teaching literature on the iconic landscape and ecological fragility; stories and perspectives of convicts, migrants, and refugees; and Maori and Aboriginal texts, which add much to the transnational turn. This volume presents a wide array of writers--such as Patrick White, Janet Frame, Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Witi Ihimaera, Christina Stead, Allen Curnow, David Malouf, Les Murray, Nam Le, Miles Franklin, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan--and offers pedagogical tools for teachers to consider issues that include colonial and racial violence, performance traditions, and the role of language and translation. Concluding with a list of resources, this volume serves to support new and experienced instructors alike.

Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australia
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Australian National Bibliography: 1992 by National Library of Australia Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : 00049816

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Australian National Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Angela McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317607847

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Ireland in the World by Angela McCarthy Pdf

This international edited book collection of ten original contributions from established and emerging scholars explores aspects of Ireland’s place in the world since the 1780s. It imaginatively blends comparative, transnational, and personal perspectives to examine migration in a range of diverse geographical locations including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Jamaica, and the British Empire more broadly. Deploying diverse sources including letters, interviews, press reports, convict records, and social media, contributors canvas important themes such as slavery, convicts, policing, landlordism, print culture, loyalism, nationalism, sectarianism, politics, and electronic media. A range of perspectives including Catholic and Protestant, men and women, convicts and settlers are included, and the volume is accompanied by a range of striking images.