[can-talk] Provenance issue 7 - September 2008 - now online!

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PROVENANCE Issue No 7, September 2008 -
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance

Provenance is the free scholarly journal of Public Record Office Victoria
(PROV), the Victorian state archives. Provenance features peer-reviewed
articles, and other contributions, that present research drawing upon
records in PROV custody.

If you are interested in submitting an article for future issues or would
like to receive an email reminder when each new issue is published online,
please contact the Editor, Sebastian Gurciullo by phone on (03) 9348 5600;
or email <provenance at dvc.vic.gov.au>


This year's issue of Provenance, contains a diverse range of contributions
from across the researcher community accessing records at Public Record
Office Victoria.

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Anna Davine, 'Italian Speakers on the Walhalla Goldfield: A study of a
small place and ordinary lives', examines the lives of Italians on the
Walhalla goldfields through goldmining, Crown lands, and probate files
regarding Vittorio Campagnolo as a case study challenging prior analyses of
migration patterns in Australia.


Belinda Robson, 'From mental hygiene to community mental health:
psychiatrists and Victorian public administration from the 1940s to 1990s',
looks at government records about official policy on mental health and
developments in this field during the later twentieth century.


Robyn Ballinger, 'Landscapes of abundance and scarcity on the northern
plains of Victoria', employs a range of records relating to land use in the
semi-arid northern plains of Victoria to argue that settlement visions in
the period 1836-1930 were shaped not only by political and economic
imperatives but also by the climatic changes of a semi-arid country.


Victoria Haskins, '"Give to us the People we would Love to be amongst us":
The Aboriginal Campaign against Caroline Bulmer’s eviction from Lake Tyers
Aboriginal Station, 1913–14', revisits the political campaign of residents
at Lake Tyers Aboriginal Station who between 1913 and 1914 petitioned the
Victorian Government to allow Caroline Bulmer, the widow of their late
missionary, to remain on the station with them.


Lyn Payne, 'The Curious Case of the Wollaston Affair', presents a portrait
of school teacher Edward George Wollaston and his protracted battle with
the Victorian education authorities.





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Brienne Callahan, 'The "Monster" Petition and the Women of Davis Street',
takes us back to a street in North Carlton and the working-class women who
signed the women's suffrage petition 100 years ago.


Peter Davies, '"A lonely, narrow valley": Teaching at an Otways outpost',
presents the story of an isolated milling community through records about
its public school, one of many such remote schools that opened following
the Victorian government's introduction of free, secular and compulsory
education in 1872.


Jenny Carter, 'Wanted! Honourable Gentlemen: Select applicants for the
positions of Deputy Registrar for Collingwood in 1864', explores the wealth
of detail revealed through the Victorian Chief Secretary's Correspondence
relating to applicants for a routine job vacancy.


Dawn Peel, 'Colac 1857: snapshot of a colonial settlement', presents us
with a glimpse of Colac in 1856-57 as revealed through a range of
government records.


Ruth Dwyer, 'A Jewellery Manufactory in Melbourne: Rosenthal, Aronson &
Company', looks at records from both Public Record Office Victoria and the
National Archives of Australia to create a detailed account of a Melbourne
jewellery firm in the later half of the nineteenth century.


Karin Derkley, '"The present depression has brought me down to zero":
Northcote High School during the 1930s', focuses on the struggles of
parents to keep their children in education during the difficult years of
the Great Depression.


You can still read issue no. 6 (September 2007) and ALL previous issues of
the journal (free of charge) at the following web address:


http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/pastissues.asp



Regards



Sebastian Gurciullo




Dr Sebastian Gurciullo
Archivist, Online Projects
Editor, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance
Public Record Office Victoria


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