Vol 93, Number 2
December 2022
Inside this number
LECTURES
Milestones of Aboriginal Women’s Activism in Melbourne 1930s-1980s by Julie Andrews
Hugh Anderson, Historian by Frank Bongiorno
ARTICLES
PANDEMICS AND HEALTH CRISES
Not Without Precedent: Two Centuries of Public Health Emergencies in Victoria by John Schauble
The Great Pandemic of 1918-1919: Pneumonic Influenza in Australia by Anthea Hyslop
A Grassroots View of Spanish Influenza in Melbourne by Mary Sheehan
No mention of the Great Famine: Interpreting a Gap in Dr John Singleton’s Autobiographical Narrative by Sylvia Morrissey
HISTORICAL NOTES
Historians, Citizens and Pandemics by Janet McCalman
The 1919-1920 Influenza Pandemic in Victoria: Primary Sources and Contemporary Published Material by Tim Hogan
Bringing the States Back In by Mark Finnane
New South Wales-Victorian Border Communities in the Influenza Pandemic, 1919 by Erik Eklund
Young Voices of the Pandemic: The COVID Kids Oral History Project by Lucy Bracey, Fiona Poulton, Sarah Rood and Katherine Sheedy
INTERPRETING AN IMAGE
‘Taking no risks’: Traralgon’s Response to the Influenza Epidemic by Cheryl Griffin
REVIEWS
Jas A. Munro & Co: The Largest Garage in Melbourne. By Ian Berg reviewed by Michael P.R. Pearson
Pioneers in Two Colonies: The Armytage Family in Australia 1816-1876. By Dennis Green reviewed by Andrew Lemon
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War. By Phillip Deery reviewed by Ian Cummins
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heydey to Reckoning. By Stuart Macintyre reviewed by Joy Damousi
Class in Australia. Edited by Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard reviewed by Charles Sowerwine
Changing Fortunes: Ebb and Flow of People and Place in a Pocket of Port Melbourne. By David F. Radcliffe reviewed by David Nichols
VIC BAR: A History of the Victorian Bar. By Peter Yule reviewed by Ian Dunn
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields. By Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies reviewed by Benjamin Mountford
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS