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Albany


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Book or other review
  • N. Green, Aborigines of the Albany Region 1821-1988. The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians
    Tom Stannage

Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Book or other review
  • Donald S. Garden, Albany
    Glen Lewis


Broome


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Book or other review
  • John Bailey, The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment

    Christine Choo


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article

  • The Broome Race Riots of 1920

    Michael Schaper

Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Book or other review
  • Arthur C. Bligh, The Golden Quest: The Roaring Days of West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry

    Kate Darian-Smith


Bunbury


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Book or other review
  • Anthony J. Barker and Maxine Laurie, Excellent Connections: A History of Bunbury, Western Australia 1836-1990
    Don Garden


Claremont


The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Book or other reviews
  • Geoffrey Bolton and Jenny Gregory, Claremont: A History
    Alan Mayne
  • Contours of Madness: Montgomery’s Claremont – Quickly Falls the Shadow
    Peter McClelland


Cockburn


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Book or other review

  • Michael Berson, Cockburn: the making of a community
    D. D. Denholm


Collie


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Article

  • Visual Celebrations of Community: Murals and their Message in Collie
    Raelene Frances

Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987

Article

  • Christianity on the Coalfields: A Case-Study of Collie During the Great Depression
    Raelene Frances

Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982

Book or other review
  • H. W. Williams, One Day in Collie
    Raelene Davidson


Cottesloe


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Book or other review

  • Ruth Marchant James, Heritage of Pines: a history of Cottesloe
    D. D. Denholm


East Perth


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Article
  • What is East Perth’s Heritage?
    Melissa Milton-Smith


Fremantle



Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007

Book or other reviews

  • Michal Bosworth, Convict Fremantle: A Place of Promise and PunishmentPeter Millett

  • ‘Escape! Fremantle to Freedom’ – A Touring Exhibition reviewed when on display at Fremantle Prison
    Ian Chambers

Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006

Book or other review

  • John Dowson, Old Fremantle: Photographs 1850-1950
    Lenore Layman

History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Book or other review
  • George Seddon and Barbara Haddy, Looking at an Old Suburb: a Walking Guide to Four Blocks of Fremantle
    David Dolan

Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Articles

  • Spirituality and its Spatial Dimensions: The Parish of St Patrick’s Church Fremantle 1948-1962
    Anne Wayne
  • In the Anonymity of a Murmur: Graffiti and the Construction of the Past at Fremantle Prison
    Daniel Palmer

Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article
  • Jumna Khan
    Charlie Fox

Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994

Book or other review
  • Michal and Richard Bosworth, Fremantle’s Italy
    Ros Pesman

Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Book or other review
  • George Seddon, A House, a Cottage and a Shop: 186 High Street, Fremantle
    Linda Young

Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Article
  • Fremantle War Memorial: Patriotism or Civic Pride?
    Jenny Moroney


Gnowrangerup


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Book or other review

  • Merle Bignell, The Fruit of the Country
    F. K. Crowley


Goldfields/Kalgoorlie


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007

Article

  • Compensating the Tubercular Miner: An Occupational Health Solution to a Public Health Problem
    Criena Fitzgerald

The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Article

  • Champion of the Goldfields: John Waters Kirwan
    Anne Partlon

Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Book or other review

  • Bill Bunbury, Timber for Gold: Life on the Goldfields Woodlines
    Mathew Trinca

Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Book or other review

  • Geoffrey Blainey, The Golden Mile
    Richard G. Hartley

Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994

Article

  • The Goldfields come to Perth: The Sunday Times 1897-1905
    Karen Byers

Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Book or other review

  • Arthur C. Bligh, The Golden Quest: The Roaring Days of West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry
    Kate Darian-Smith

Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Article

  • Disputes, Diggers and Disillusionment: Social and Industrial Unrest in Perth and Kalgoorlie 1918-24
    Bobbie Oliver

Book or other reviews

  • Norma King, Daughters of Midas: Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields
    Raelene Frances
  • Ian Templeman and Bernadette McDonald, The Fields
    Raelene Frances

Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Articles

  • Labour’s Annual Holiday: Eastern Goldfields Eight Hours Demonstrations 1900-1914
    Lenore Layman
  • The Coolgardie International Exhibition, 1899
    Lynne Stevenson
  • Boulder Bands Win at Ballarat 1904-05
    Jean Farrant

Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982
Articles

  • Richard Hamilton and the East Coolgardie Gold Mining Industry 1896-1927
    Anne Porter
  • The Kalgoorlie Woodline Strikes 1919-1920: A Study of Conflict Within the Working Class
    J. Murray


Greenough


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff and Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006
Article

  • Convictism in Greenough
    Simon Stevens


Kalumburu


History and Native Title, Christine Choo and Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003
Book or other review

  • Ambrose Munglala Chalarimeri, The Man from the Sunrise Side
    Christine Choo


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978
Book or other review

  • The Benedictine Mission at Kalumburu
    Ian Crawford


Kimberley



Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007

Book review

  • Mary Anne Jebb, Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aborginal Pastoral WorkersChris Owen

History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003
Articles

  • ‘Our struggle as Kimberley Aboriginal peoples, is for the recognition of inherent and fundamental rights, interests and responsibilities in land’
    Wayne Bergmann
  • Deafening Silences: Understanding Frontier Relations and the Discourse of Police Files through the Kimberley Police Records
    Christine Choo & Chris Owen

Book or other reviews

  • Christine Choo, Mission Girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia 1900-1950
    Lynette Russell
  • Ian Crawford, WE Won the Victory: Aborigines and Outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley
    Christine Choo
  • Ambrose Munglala Chalarimeri, The Man from the Sunrise Side
    Christine Choo



Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999
Book or other review

  • A Challenge to Human Rights: Aboriginal Women in the West Kimberley
    Christine Choo

Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991
Article

  • The Unpromised Land: A Jewish Refugee Settlement in the Kimberley?
    Beverley Hooper

Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995
Article

  • Asian Men on the West Kimberley Coast, 1900-1940
    Christine Choo

Book or other review

  • Margaret Zucker, From Patrons to Partners: A History of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley 1884-1984
    Katharine Massam


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Article

  • Aborigines, Settlers and Police in the Kimberleys 1887-1905
    Andrew Gill


Leederville


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987
Article

  • The Founding and Early Years of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Leederville
    John O’Brien


Margaret River


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999
Book or other review

  • L.C. Burton, Barefoot in the Creek: A Group Settlement Childhood in Margaret River
    Ian Crawford


Melville


Studies in Western Australian History, 2, 1978
Book or other review

  • Malcolm Uren, The City of Melville
    John McKenzie


Midland


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990
Article

  • The Midland Railway Workshops 1920-1939
    Kathy Bell


New Norcia


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997
Book or other review

  • David Hutchison, A Town Like No Other: The Living Tradition of New Norcia
    Judith Woodward


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991
Book or other review

  • Neville Green and Lois Tilbrook, Aborigines of New Norcia 1845-1914. The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians
    Tom Stannage


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987
Article

  • The Founding Fathers of St Ildephonsus’ College, New Norcia
    Valerian Braniff


Northam


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981
Book or other review

  • Donald S. Garden, Northam: an Avon Valley history
    Charles Staples


Northampton


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997
Article

  • Landscapes of Meaning: Joseph Horrocks and the Gwalla Estate Northampton
    Martin Gibbs




Northcliffe


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006
Book or other review

  • Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford, Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area, Western Australia
    John Dargavel


Perth


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007

Review

  • Jenny Gregory, City of Light: A History of Perth since the 1950sGraeme Davison

Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997
Article

  • Capturing Gender? Identifying Spaces in Perth’s Forrest Chase
    Matthew Allen & Jane Long


Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994
Article

  • The Goldfields come to Perth: The Sunday Times 1897-1905
    Karen Byers


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990
Article

  • Disputes, Diggers and Disillusionment: Social and Industrial Unrest in Perth and Kalgoorlie 1918-24
    Bobbie Oliver

Book or other review

  • Bryce Moore, A Superior Kind of Savings Bank: Perth Building Society 1862-1987
    D. T. Merrett


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989
Article

  • ‘The Foundation of Perth’: George Pitt Morison’s Persistent Image Janda Gooding

Book or other review

  • Suzanne Welborn, Swan: The History of a Brewery
    Bryce Moore


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983
Book or other review

  • Geoffrey Bolton and Prue Joske, History of Royal Perth Hospital
    Anthea Hyslop


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988
Book or other review

  • C. T. Stannage, The People of Perth: A Social History of Western Australia’s Capital City
    Frank. Crowley


Pilbara


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999
Book or other review

  • Neil Olive (ed.), Karijini Mirlimirli: Aboriginal Histories from the Pilbara
    Kathryn Trees


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991
Book or other review

  • Jenny Hardie, Nor’Westers of the Pilbara Breed
    Kate Darian-Smith


Studies in Western Australian History, 2, 1978
Book or other review

  • Max Brown, The Black Eureka
    Raymond Evans


Pinjarra


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003
Article

  • James Stirling and Pinjarra: A Battle in More Ways than One
    Pamela Statham


Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992
Book or other review

  • John Lane, Fairbridge Kid
    John Lack


European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History, Bob Reece & Tom Stannage (eds), 8, 1984
Article

  • The Battle for Pinjarra: A Revisionist View
    Christine Fletcher



Rottnest (See also Wadjemup)


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host and Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001
Article

  • Greetings from Rottnest
    Sally Morgan


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989
Article

  • ‘For the Good of the Colony and Humanity at Large’: The Opening of the New Rottnest Lighthouse in 1896
    Frank Broeze


South Perth


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991
Book or other review

  • Janice Gothard, Across Perth Water: Reminiscences of South Perth
    Katie Holmes


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988
Book or other review

  • Professor Shann Meets the Gentry
    Rob Pascoe


Subiaco


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003
Book or other review

  • Ken Spillman, Diehards: The Story of the Subiaco Football Club, 1946-2000
    Robert Pascoe


Swan


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989
Book or other reviews

  • Michael J. Bourke, On the Swan: A History of the Swan District, Western Australia
    Ronald Richards


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987
Report

  • ‘Anglicans Concerned for Aborigines’ and the Swan-Valley Fringe-Dwellers
    Fay Clampett


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983
Book or other review

  • William McNair and Hilary Rumley, Pioneer Aboriginal Mission: The Work of Wesleyan Missionary John Smithies in the Swan River Colony 1840-1855
    F. G. Clarke


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988
Book or other review

  • Reginald Appleyard and Toby Manford, The Beginning: European Discovery and Early Settlement of the Swan River, Western Australia
    James Cameron


Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982
Book or other review

  • Assertions of a Bold ‘Periphery’: Further Interpretations of Environment and Society in Swan River Colony
    J. M. Powell


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981
Article

  • Why Convicts II: the Decision to Introduce Convicts to Swan River Pamela Statham


Toodyay


The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000
Article

  • Friends and Neighbours: The Irish of Toodyay
    Rica Erickson


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977
Book or other review

  • Rica Erickson, Old Toodyay and Newcastle
    Duncan Waterson


Wadjemup (See also Rottnest)


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001
Articles

  • Wadjemup: Snatched from the heartland …
    Greame Dixon
  • Wadjemup: Holiday Paradise or Prison Hell-Hole
    Blaze Kwaymullina


Yilgarn


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995
Book or other review

  • Lyall Hunt, Yilgarn. Good Country for Hardy People: The Landscape and People of the Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia
    Charles Fahey
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