'Our second issue still benefits from the hard work of our predecessors, the Flinders editorial team. We were delighted to delve into the eight articles accepted for this issue and discuss with the authors the best ways to highlight their contributions. We are especially thrilled to lead off the issue with Paul Sendziuk and Martin Crotty’s report on their investigation into history curricula in Australian and New Zealand universities. In response to the grandiose claims made recently by the Institute of Public Affairs that our universities teach fragmented and parochial history, Sendziuk and Crotty found instead that comprehensive surveys are alive and well. Read further to find out the details of what we actually teach in history lecture theatres across the Tasman world.' (Editorial introduction)
Contents indexed selectively. Other material in this issue includes:
From the President bu Joy Damousi
‘Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’?: the history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities by Paul Sendziuk & Martin Crotty
Volunteers with a legal impediment: Australian national service and the question of overseas service in Vietnam by Ben Morris & Noah Riseman
‘You’re better out of the way’: the experiences of German and Italian women in South Australia, 1939–45 by Rachel Harris
‘A constant menace to British interests’: changing attitudes towards ‘German schools’ during World War I by Clarissa Carden
‘An ethnographical laboratory’: science, religion and the origins of the North-West Reserve by Robert Foster
The enigmatic Bartholomew Lloyd alias Frederick Dalton: identity and mobility during the gold rush era in New South Wales by Peter Crabb, Brendan Dalton, Hugh Craig & Alexis Antonia
Clay and ‘civilisation’ – imperial ideas and colonial industry in Sydney, 1788–1823 by Nicholas Pitt
Exhibition Review : Street photography 1930s–1950s by Emma Wallhead
Book review Kate Ariotti, Captive Anzacs by Joan Beaumont
Book review Urban histories of the nation and beyond in Australia and New Zealand by Lauren Pikó
Book review Nature Study and Environmental Concern by Russell McGregor
Living over the Shop by Stuart Macintyre
Book review : Dunera Lives: A Visual History by Alexandra Dellios
An Intimate History of Drought by Ruth A. Morgan
An Ocean's Embrace by Frances Steel
'The Australian advertising industry took steps to improve its efficiency and reputation in the interwar period. These steps included restricting entry to the industry by means of a national accreditation system based on standardised courses and examinations. This article examines the development and application of this system by tracing the background and career of Edward Perugini, Australia’s leading advertising educator and the architect of the industry’s scheme. It finds that, under Perugini’s guidance, the industry tempered its embrace of the ‘science’ of advertising – the dependence on research and sweeping psychological ‘insights’ – with attention to art in advertising, anticipating the ‘Creative Revolution’ of the late 1960s.' (Publication abstract)
'This article discusses the personal factors which influenced my decision to become a historian. It traces the impact of my family background and the diverse cultural and parental influences of my childhood on my growing awareness of social, racial and political issues. These, I suggest inspired my later focus on social, political and gender history. The piece then goes on to discuss the impact on my historical interests and perspectives of my education at Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin and of my experience living and teaching in Paris while researching and writing my PhD. It concludes with my choice to come to the University of Melbourne and my arrival there in 1974.' (Publication abstract)
(Introduction)
'Mary Tomsic’s important and interesting book examines 70 years of women’s participation in Australian filmmaking and film culture. Rather than focusing on women as movie stars or movie fans, this book demonstrates the multiple dimensions of women’s ‘film-work’. A useful concept, film-work encompasses ‘work directly involved in the production of films’ and ‘work involved in supporting, controlling and valuing film in society’ (3). Women’s film-work in Australia spanned the production of feature, documentary, government, independent, and feminist films, distribution and exhibition activities, as well as social reform and educational efforts. To convey this breadth, Tomsic structures her book effectively, using her chapters as case studies to explore different dimensions of women’s film-work across time, beginning with early women filmmakers, such as the McDonagh sisters, and ending with film-school trained directors, such as Gillian Armstrong. Each chapter also contains biographical sketches of and interconnections among significant women film-workers, producing in the end a valuable collective biography alongside an appreciation of women’s contributions to film-work in Australia.' (Introduction)
