Victorian Historical Journal DIGITAL Issue 296, Vol 92, No 2, December 2021

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ARTICLES

• Introduction by co-editors, Judith Smart and Richard Broome
• Statues: Putting Them Up and Pulling ‘em Down by Jim Davidson: The 2021 Weston Bate Oration
• Vera Deakin in War and Peace by Carole Woods
• Encounters in and with the Mallee 1847–1849  by Susan Priestley
• The Legend of ‘The Golden Horseshoes of Beechworth’: The Evidence Considered  by Mark Valentine St Leon
• Conscientious Non-Compliers: The Vietnam War Years  by Geoffrey A. Sandy

HISTORICAL NOTES

• Henry Johnson: The First Identified European Settler in the Upper Goulburn River District? by Lawrie Hall
• People and Place of the Hissing Swan: Kaawirn Kuunawarn, Lake Connewarren, the Weatherlys and ‘Connewarran’ Station by Rod Giblett
• Life after Death: The Coronial Records of a Lost Victorian Goldfield  by John Schauble
• The Melbourne Socialite and the Turkish Diplomat: The Story of Florence Winter-Irving by Patrick Ferry and Janan Greer
• A KLM DC-2 Uiver Aftermath: Java Hosts the Burghers of Albury in 1935 by Noel Jackling
• Postscript on A.G.M. Michell, F.R.S. by Anne Marsden

INTERPRETING AN IMAGE

• Diggers on Road to Bendigo: S.T. Gill and Women on the Victorian Diggings by Katrina Dernelley

REVIEWS

• The Accidental Town: Castlemaine, 1851–1861. By Marjorie Theobald.  Reviewed by Charles Fahey
  
• The Ghosts Have Never Left: Victorian Gold Rush Towns and the Stories They Could Tell. By John & Marie Watt. Reviewed by Charles FaheyThe Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, a Biography. By Reg MacDonald. Reviewed by Christopher Marshall
• The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart. By Stuart Kells. Reviewed by Peter McPhee
• Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians. By Benjamin Wilkie. Reviewed by Don Garden
• Pentridge Prison Inside Out. By Adrian Didlick, with Katrin Strohl and Don Osborne. Reviewed by Richard Broome
• The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the Fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein. Reviewed by Terri Mackenzie
• ‘My Country All Gone, the White Men Have Stolen It’: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800–1870. By Fred Cahir. Reviewed by Jack Norris
• Breaking New Ground: Biographies of Women Agricultural Science Students, University of Melbourne 1942–1965. By Helen Billman-Jacobe & Ann Westmore. Reviewed by Nikki Henningham
• Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics. By Sean Scalmer. Reviewed by Charles Fahey

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