A5078296900- Australian History and Society
- Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Biographical and Historical Analysis
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Irish and British Studies
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Canadian Identity and History
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Theater, Performance, and Music History
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Race, History, and American Society
- Historical Studies of British Isles
- Photography and Visual Culture
Griffith University
2021-2022
University of Technology Sydney
2018-2020
University of South Australia
2013-2017
Although the restorative benefits of nature are widely acknowledged, there is a limited understanding attributes natural environments that fundamental to experiences. Faced with growing human populations and greater awareness wellbeing provide, park agencies planners increasingly challenged balancing ecological outcomes in areas. This study examines physical experiential qualities people referred when describing their connection most valued an online questionnaire. Recruited primarily via...
AbstractBetween 1800 and 1850 the British newspapers published over 1,000 newspaper articles concerned with Irish abduction, offering a stark contrast to little attention devoted English cases during same period. This article examines representations of abduction in press considers how this form sexual spectacle contributed perceptions Ireland Analysis number particularly heinous from early nineteenth century demonstrates images vulnerable often violated women encouraged unfavourable...
In this article, I explore the challenges and opportunities associated with using ‘informed imagination’ to write a speculative biography of an historical figure. process, problematize notion archival gap, which has been recently romanced by numerous writers, including myself. By citing gaps as justification for creative license, we neglect fact that all archives are inherently idiosyncratic in ways invite, perhaps even demand, use both speculation imagination. Here, make case what am...
This article provides an outline of the current statue wars in Australia, England, America, New Zealand and Eastern Europe before reviewing many acts public history making these contestations have inspired among both protestors protectors. Commencing with unveiling contested Captain James Cook Sydney's Hyde Park 1879, authors trace connections between past present reflecting upon role historians as communities strive to develop frameworks that can foster careful conversation, consultation...
Abstract By contrasting a selection of abduction cases that occurred in the penal era with those captured attention newspapers during 1840s and 1850s, this article considers role trials period New South Wales when colony recognised procurement greater political economic autonomy was dependent upon transforming its reputation from degraded outpost to respectable British society. Between 1848 1851, at very moment climate reached definitive tipping point favour self-government, three came...
This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences creative approaches to the theory and practice history, are exploring how term 'Creative Histories' might apply within Australian context. While Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little been done consider its development relevance Australia. Here we develop working definition for which shaped conversation with Historians at University Bristol suite interviews...
Abstract This article discusses a recent art project created by the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi artist Jonathon Jones, which was commissioned to commemorate opening of revitalized Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney early 2020. Jones’ work involves dramatic installation red white crushed stones laid throughout grounds barracks, merging image emu footprint with that English broad convict arrow ‘consider Australia’s layered history contemporary cultural relations’. accompanied ‘specially-curated...
Creative writing scholars and writers review the latest books.
This Creative Matters piece is inspired by five objects in the archives of colonial artist, Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867), which relate to her dying and death. In addition two letters, one was last wrote before she died; other mother shortly afterwards, I have drawn inspiration from trunk Ironsides took with them Europe returned Australia after their deaths remains possession descendants. also referred an obituary that published Athenaeum a lost artwork entitled ‘The Pilgrim Art’, depicts...
Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867) is best known as the first Australian-born artist to train overseas. While her life offers a portal into Republican Sydney, Pre-Raphaelite London and Risorgimento Rome, nature of archive also highlights limits historical method need employ what Virginia Woolf called ‘the biographer’s licence’ when researching writing about subjects with problematic sources. In this article, I biographical license contrast better-known better-documented death English poet John...