Autobiography & Biography

(See also Colonialism, Colonisation & Empire; Race & Racism; War, Peace & Remembrance)

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

Book or other reviews

• Jeff Hatwell, No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
  Ian Chambers

• Hal G.P. Colebatch, Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch
  Brian de Garis

• Lyn Adams, Orchard and Mill: The Story of Bill Lee, South West Pioneer
  Ken Spillman

• Edie Wright, Full Circle: From Mission to Community:A Family Story
  Ian Duckham

Article

• Alfred Daniel Letch: A White-Collar Convict
  Sandra Potter

Book or other reviews

• Robert Emeric Tyler IV, (ed.), My Dear Emma: A Full and Detailed Account of the Journey of Robert Emeric Tyler and his Son, to Western Australia, and their Return to England. August 1st 1895 to March 7th 1896
  Anne Partlon

• Sean Monaghan, A Long and Winding Road: Xavier Herbert’s Literary Journey
  Veronica Brady

• Stephen Kinnane, Shadow Lines
  Debra Fletcher

Book or other reviews

• Frank Crowley, Big John Forrest, 1847-1918: A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia
  Deborah Gare

• Richard Davis, Eileen Joyce: A Portrait [Book and CD]
  Jeff Brownrigg

• John Taylor, Between Devotion and Design: The Architecture of John Cyril Hawes 1876-1956
  Kate Hislop

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

• Judith Drake-Brockman, Wongi Wongi: To Speak
  Mary-Anne Jebb

Article

• My Only Question: Why? A Brief Life of Rosemary Conway
  Roseanne Feehon

Book or other reviews

• Jolly Read and Peter Coppin, Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman
  Peter Coppin & Victoria Haskins

• Tom Stannage, Kay Saunders and Richard Nile, Paul Hasluck in Australian History: Civic Personality and Public Life
  Ann Curthoys

Book or other reviews

• Jenny Mills, I Buried My Dolls in the Garden: The Life and Work of Elizabeth Blair Barber
  Janda Gooding

• David Day, John Curtin: A Life
  Bobbie Oliver

Articles

• The Irish R.M: Capt. John Molloy of the Vasse
  Gill Hardwick

• George Fletcher Moore
  James Cameron

• The Revd George King
  Bob Reece

• Joseph Noonan: Fenian Success Story
  Gillian O’Mara

• A Trinity Man Abroad: Sir Winthrop Hackett
  Geoffrey Bolton

• Mulcahy Bros.
  Clement M. Mulcahy

• Champion of the Goldfields: John Waters Kirwan
  Anne Partlon

• Ronan Country: Jim and Tom Ronan in the North-West
  Don Grant

• Not For Economic Gain: Elsie Butler in Western Australia
  Jean Chetkovich

• Mary Durack: A Tribute
  Elizabeth Durack, Margaret O’Doherty, Joe O’Sullivan,Joan Walsh-Smith & Veronica Brady

Book or other reviews

• Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Ursula Frayne: A Biography
  Rita Farrell

• Ruth Marchant James, Fields of Gold: a History of the Dominican Sisters in Western Australia
  Toby Burrows

• Ruth Marchant James, Cork to Capricorn: a History of the Presentation Sisters in Western Australia 1891-1991
  Toby Burrows

• Bart Srhoy, Journey Beyond Origin
  Jean Chetkovich

Articles

• Images of Women in Western Australian Politics: The Suffragist, Edith Cowan and Carmen Lawrence
  Joan Eveline & Michael Booth

• ‘A Truly Great Australian Woman’: Jean Beadle’s Work among Western Australian Women and Children 1901-1942
  Bobbie Oliver

• A Citizen of Australia and of the World: A Reappraisal of Bessie Mabel Rischbieth
  Dianne Davidson

Book or other reviews

• A.G. Evans, Fanatic Heart. A Life of John Boyle O’Reilly 1844-1890
  Patrick O’Farrell

• Colin Holden, Ritualist on a Tricycle: Frederick Goldsmith, Church, Nationalism and Society in Western Australia 1880-1920
  Rowan Strong

• Margot Melia and Richard Bosworth, Western Australia as it is Today, 1906, Leopoldo Zunini (edited and trans. by Melia and Bosworth)
  Adelma Longton

Book or other reviews

• R. Horgan (ed.), J. Partridge and J. Miller (assoc.eds) A Time to Keep: Preserving the Past for the Future
  Helen Burgess

• Paul Hasluck, Light That Time Has Made
  Robert Porter

Articles

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

• Paul Hasluck, Light That Time Has Made
  Robert Porter

Article

• Jumna Khan
  Charlie Fox

Book or other review

• William J. Lines, An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy
  Bruce Baskerville

Book or other reviews

• J. B. Hirst, The World of Albert Facey
  Richard Nile

• Sarah Newton, Maxwell Newton: A Biography
  John Rickard

• Robert Porter, Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography
  John Rickard

• Justina Williams, Anger and Love
  Amirah Inglis

Book or other reviews

• Alice Nannup, Stephen Kinnane and Lauren Marsh, When the Pelican Laughed
  Peggy Brock

• John Mulvaney and Neville Green, Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828-1831
  David Carment

• Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust: A Shearer’s Life
  John Hirst

• Pat Malcolm, First Cuts are Deepest
  John Hirst

Book or other reviews

• Henry Richardson, A Pleasant Passage: The Journals of Henry Richardson, Surgeon-Superintendent aboard the convict ship Sultana
  Jan Gothard

• John Lane, Fairbridge Kid
  John Lack

• Allan Moore, Growing up with Barnardo’s
  John Lack

• L. P. Welsh, Geordie: Orphan of the Empire
  John Lack

• Bill Marks, The Fall of the Dice
  Charlie Fox

• Geoffrey Bolton and Heather Vose with Genelle Jones, The Wollaston Journals Volume 1: 1840-1842
  Anne Porter

Article

• Luigi Mistrorigo and La Stampa: The Strange Story of a Fascist Journalist in Perth
  Richard Bosworth

Book or other reviews

• Prue Joske, Dearest Isabella: The Life and Letters of Isabella Ferguson 1819-1910
  Anne O’Brien

• Emma Ciccotosto and Michal Bosworth, Emma: A Translated Life
  Susanna Iuliano

• Alexandra Hasluck, Portrait with Background
  Anne O’Brien

Article

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

Book or other reviews

• Rachael Christenson (ed.), To All My Dear People: The Diary and Letters of Private Hubert P. Demasson 1916-1917
  Katie Holmes

• Catalogue for an Exhibition: Declan Arakike-Apuatimi
  Mehmet Adil

• Rev. J. B. Gribble, Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land
  Susanne Davies

Article

• Archbishop Geoffrey Sambell: The Making of a Social Conscience
  Anne Porter

Photo Story

• Spreading the Word: Joseph Budge, Colporteur
  John Tonkin

Articles

• ‘Pigeon’: an Australian Aboriginal Rebel
  Howard Pedersen

• John Forrest and the Aborigines
  Elizabeth Goddard & Tom Stannage

• Two Historians and the Aborigines: Kimberly and Battye
  Phyl Garrick

Article

• Document: Deborah Watt’s Narrative, 1897-1914
  Jocelyn Treasure (ed.)

Book or other reviews

• 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

• Alexandra Hasluck, Portrait in a Mirror. An Autobiography
  Jill Roe

• S. M. Kelly, Proud Heritage
  Ian Crawford

Article

• The Study of External Affairs in Western Australia, 1924-54
  Fred Alexander

Book or other reviews

• Professor Shann Meets the Gentry
  Rob Pascoe

• Edith Cowan: Feminist or Philanthropist?
  Marian Simms

• Ian Elliott, Moondyne Joe: the Man and the Myth
  Russel Ward

• A. de Q. Robin, Mathew Blagden Hale: The Life of an Australian Pioneer Bishop
  G. P. Shaw

• Rica Erickson, The Dempsters
  Alan Atkinson

• Lyall Hunt (ed.), Westralian Portraits
  Chris Cunneen

Article

• Richard Hamilton and the East Coolgardie Gold Mining Industry 1896-1927
  Anne Porter

Book or other reviews

• Daphne Popham (ed.), Reflections: Profiles of 150 Women Who Helped Make Western Australia’s History
  Margaret Anderson

• Julie Lewis, On Air: the Story of Catherine King and the ABC Women’s Session
  Ronda Jamieson

• Wendy Birman, Gregory of Rainworth: a Man in His Time
  Gordon Reid

• ‘In My Mind the Next Vivid Scene Was . . .’: Family and Local History in Western Australia
  Stuart Macintyre

Articles

• Probationary Prisoner 5270: Thomas Bushell
  Margaret Brown

• Two Historians and Convictism: W. B. Kimberly and J. S. Battye
  Jennie Carter

Book or other review

• Who Were the Pensioners?
  G. C. Bolton

Book or other reviews

• Peter Cowan (ed.), A Faithful Picture
  Alan Atkinson

• Lloyd Ross, John Curtin: a Biography
  Fred Alexander

• Paul Hasluck, Mucking About
  Tom Stannage

Article

• Walter James and the Campaign for Federation
  Lyall Hunt

Book or other reviews

• J. A. La Nauze, Walter Murdoch
  Paul Hasluck

• Mary Durack, To be Heirs Forever
  Marian Aveling

Book or other review

• Ric Throssell, Wild Weeds and Wind Flowers
  Veronica Brady