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Articles by Marian Quartly
Bare lives • Marian Quartly
The story begins in 1959 with the death of an Aboriginal baby on the verandah of the Wyndham District Hospital. The child had been brought into town from the Wyndham Native Hospital, where there was no doctor to treat it.
Bark diplomacy • Inside Story
Clare Wight’s latest book, Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, is the third volume of her history of Australian democracy. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which came first, centred on the women and men who made and followed the Eureka flag, and You Daughters of Freedom was an account of the Australian suffragists, their victories at home and their impact internationally, symbolised by the Women’s Banner.
Where Cook saw a camel • Marian Quartly
Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s Warra Warra Wai has a very long subtitle: How Indigenous Australians Discovered Captain Cook & What They Tell About the Coming of the Ghost People. And this is precisely what the book does. The authors describe how they followed the journey of Cook’s Endeavour up the east coast of Australia, putting back the original names of all the landmarks renamed by Cook and recording the stories the First Nations people at those sites wanted to share.
Marvellous Melbourne’s Madame Brussels • Marian Quartly
When Caroline Hodgson (aka Madame Brussels, notorious brothel-keeper) died in 1908, her probate records included — “along with the diamonds, pearls and sapphires, and the gold fob watches” — a “Silver mounted purse (Bent coin inside).” Barbara Minchinton includes this detail in the closing pages of her new biography, Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman.
Citizen capitalists • Susan Sheridan
“The middling sort” was a term used in the eighteenth century to describe those people, neither wage labourers nor gentry, who were the forerunners of the modern middle class — shopkeepers, manufacturers, skilled artisans, professionals and even yeoman farmers — people who “shared values and expectations that were shaped by the dangers of the commercial world… temperate, prudent, proud of their independence.” Historian Marian Quartly borrows the term to describe her ancestors in her new book...
Citizen capitalists
“The middling sort”: Caroline and Jonathan Kurll, grandparents of historian Marian Quartly.
Between strangeness and familiarity • Marian Quartly
“Love is a creature of its time,” writes Alecia Simmonds. “And it is in the space between strangeness and familiarity that the history of love can be found.” Simmonds is mistress of the well-turned phrase and the arresting observation. She is also a fine historian. In her elegantly written new book, Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law, she interrogates the strange and the familiar to illustrate love’s history in Australia and its long entanglement with law.
Slicing the tide • Marian Quartly
1825 words Slicing the tide 16 May 2023 English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history When the editor of Inside Story asked me to review Faber’s reprint of Alethea Hayter’s book A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 — a book that “shifted the way I looked at history,” according to one reviewer — I happily agreed.
Writing history in dark places • Marian Quartly
The historian Hugh Stretton liked to tell his students a story about the questions historians ask and how they find answers. In his Political Sciences he told it this way.
Lest we forget Afghanistan • Hamish McDonald
Less than three months after defence minister Peter Dutton declared “wheels up” on Australia’s exit, the United Nations and foreign aid groups are warning that the world’s worst contemporary humanitarian disaster is looming in Afghanistan.
Alternative histories • Marian Quartly
Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria By Janet McCalman | The Miegunyah Press | $39.99 | 343 pages How Australian is Jack Thompson? In 2016 SBS framed the first episode of the Australian family history series Who Do You Think You Are? with this question.
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