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PhDs IN HISTORY RSSS, 1955 -

2009
Georgina Fitzpatrick
Britishers Behind Barbed Wire: Internment in Australia during the Second World War

Karen Fox
Famous Women: the Representation of Well-Known Maori and Aboriginal Women in the White Imagination

Doris Kordes
A politics of care: moral treatment in the asylum and the community

Helen Pfeil
Raising Colonial Families: The Upper-Middle-Class in Eastern Australia, 1840-1900

2008
Wendy Way
The Ideas of F.L. McDougall: A biographical approach

Susan Mary Withycombe
Building Communities: Women in the Making of Canberra, 1911-1958

2007
Barbara Dawson
In the Eye of the Beholder: Representations of Australian Aborigines in the Published Works of Colonial Women Writers

Tiffany Shellam
Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George's Sound

2005
Joy McCann
Unsettled Country: History and Memory in Australia's Wheatlands

Tim Sherratt
Atomic Wonderland: Science and progress in twentieth-century Australia

Malcolm Wood
Presbyterians in Colonial Victoria (1837-1901)

2004
Sitarani Kerin
'Doctor Do-Good'? Charles Duguid and Aboriginal Politics, 1930s-1970s

Darrell Lewis
A Wild History: The Making of Victoria River Pastoral Society

Kirsty Pat Douglas
"Pictures of time beneath": Science, landscape, heritage
and the uses of the deep past in Australia, 1830-2003.

Janet Doust
English Migrants to Eastern Australia 1815-1860:
The transmission of culture between England and Australia

Rebe Taylor
Island Echoes: two Tasmanian Aboriginal Histories

John Thompson
Geoffrey Serle and his World: The Making of an Australian Historian

2001
Amanda Laugesen
Historical societies and making histories in The American West, 1870-1915.

1999
Stuart Doran
Western friends and eastern neighbours: West New Guinea and Australian
self-perception in Relation to the United States, Britain and Southeast Asia, 1950-1962.

1998
Margot Harker
'This radiant day': A history of the Australian wedding

Nicole McLennan
'From home and kindred': English immigrant to Australia, 1860-1900

1997
Gordon Briscoe
Disease, health and healing: aspects of Indigenous health in
Western Australia and Queensland, 1900 to 1940.

Luke Sullivan
Oakeshott on history.

Andrew Lee
Nothing to offer but fear ? Non-Labour Federal electioneering, 1914-1954.

1996
Elena Govor
Russian Perceptions of Australia, 1788-1919

Marivic Wyndham
A 'World-Proof Life': Eleanor Dark, a writer in Her Times.

1995
Christopher Dowd
Papal policy towards conflict in the Eastern Australian Catholic missions:
relations between the sacred congregation de propaganda fide and the bishops, 1842-1874.

Elizabeth Kwan
Which Flag? Which Country? An Australian Dilemma, 1901-1951

1994
Frank Bongiorno
Labor and politics in Victoria, 1885-1914.

Mo Yimei
Self-perception of the Chinese in Tasmania.

Craig A. Wilcox
Australia's citizen army, 1889-1914.

1992
Jacqueline Fogerty
Growing old in England 1878-1948.

Margot Kerley
Commercial television in Australia: the first decade.

Richard Reid
Irish assisted emigration to New South Wales, 1848-1870.

Marian Stell
Half the Race: a history of Australian women in sport.

Julian Thomas
Commemorative celebrations and recurrent Rituals in Australia, 1930s.

1991
Andrew D. Frazer
Unions, the state and arbitration in New South Wales, 1890-1926.

David Lee
From fear of depression to fear of war: a Reinterpretation
of the political issues involved in the transition from the
Chifley Government to the Menzies government 1947-1952.


1990

Philippa Mein Smith
Reformers, Mothers and Babies: Aspects of Infant Survival, Australia 1890-1945

Ray Sutton
The labour movement and youth organisation
and policy in eastern Australia, 1920-1940.

1989
Joanna Bourke
Husbandry to Housewifery Ireland 1890-1914

Paul Collins
William Bernard Ullathorne and the foundation
of Australian Catholicism 1815-1840.

John Delaney
Bourgeois morals/public punishment England C.1750s-1860s

1988
Joy Damousi
Socialist women in Australia, 1890-1918.

1987
Mark L. Robinson
Economists and politicians: the influence of economic ideas upon
Labor politicians and government 1931-1949.

1986
James Broadbent
Domestic architecture in New South Wales, 1788-1843.

Martin Sharp
Sporting spectacles: cricket and football in Sydney 1890-1912

1985
Marian R. Allbrook
Scandal and the reform of London workhouse infirmaries 1864-1872.

Quentin Beresford
Drinkers and the anti-Drink Movement in Sydney 1870-1930.

1984
Margaret Barter
The 2nd/2nd Battalion AIF: Problems of Exploring the
Social History of Australian Infantrymen.

1983

1982
John W. Knott
Some aspects of the opposition to the implementation of the Poor Law of 1834.

1981
Kim M. Berryman
French emigres and refugees in Great Britain and Ireland,1789-1815 Great Britain and the French refugees 1789-1802: the administrative response.

Adrienne Merritt
The development and application of masters and servants legislation in New South Wales 1845-1930.

Pauric Travers
The last years of Dublin Castle: The Administration of Ireland 1890-1921.

1980
Steve W. Dyer
Aspects of Farm Life in South West New South Wales between the Two World Wars.

Alan G.L. Haig
The Church of England as a profession in Victorian England.

Allan J.C. Mayne
Disease, Sanitation and the "Lower Orders": Perception and Reality in Sydney, 1875-1881.

Margaret R. Parnaby
William Johnson Fox and the Monthly Repository Circle of 1832-1836.

Margaret O. Indian
Leisure in City and suburb: Melbourne 1880-1900

1979
Mark J. Finnane
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland.

Kamoya Peterson
The Formation of Policy for the control of Vermin and Noxious Weeds in New South Wales and Victoria, 1880-1930.

Stewart J. Woodman
Lawyers in New South Wales, 1856-1914: The Evolution of a Colonial Profession.

Steven T. Eldred-Grigg
The Pastoral Families of the Hunter Valley 1880-1914.

1978
Hugh R. Jackson
Aspects of Congregationalism in South-Eastern Australia, circa 1890-1930.

1977
James C. Docherty
The Second City: Social and Urban Change in Newcastle, New South Wales, c. 1900-1929.

Milton J. Lewis
Some Aspects of Infant and Maternal Health in Sydney from 1870s to 1930s.

1976
Alan T. Atkinson
The Political Life and ideas of James Macarthur.


1975
Chris N. Connolly
Politics, Ideology and the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1856-72.

Susan M. Eade
The Reclaimers: A Study of the Reformatory Movement in England and Wales, 1846-1893.

Janet S.McCalman
Respectability and Working-class Radicalism in Victorian London: 1850-1890. A Contribution to the Debate.

Michael M. McKernan
Australian Churches in the Great War. Attitudes and Activities of the Major Churches.

1974
Dan H. Coward
The Impact of War in New South Wales. Some Aspects of Social and Political History 1914-1917.

Michael E. Hoare
Science and Scientific Associations in Eastern Australia, 1820-1890.

John A. Jones
Australia's Attitudes and Reactions to the Emergence of the United States as a World Power: The Australian Press and American Expansion,1889-1908.

Len E. Richardson
The Labour Movement in Wollongong, New South Wales, 1928-39.

1973
Mark J. Lyons
Some Aspects of Sectarianism in New South Wales 1865-1880.

1972
Robert Shultz
The Free Settlers of NSW. A Study of the Nature And Origin of the Government Assisted and Bounty Immigrants to New South Wales 1837-1850.

David Desmond Denholm
Some aspects of squatting in New South Wales and Queensland, 1847-1864


1971
E. Sa. Visswanthan
A study of the Dravidian Movement: With special reference to the self-respect movement, the final phase of the justice party and the Dravidian Federation, 1920-1949.

David R. Walker
Writer and community : Vance Palmer, Louis Esson, Frank Wilmot and Frederick Sinclaire, 1905-1930


1970
David E.U. Baker
The politics of a bilingual province - the Central Provinces and Berar, India (1919-1939).

Graeme J. Davison
The rise and fall of "Marvellous Melbourne" 1880- 1895.

Don W. Ferrell
Delhi, 1911-1922: Society and politics in the new imperial capital of India.

Ron Norris
The Emergent Commonwealth 1901-10: A study and reappraisal of aspects of the development of federal government with some attention to the exceptions of the founders and the actual exercise of federal power.

James W. Stokes
North-west Tasmania 1858-1910: The establishment of an agricultural community.

1969
Brian Kennedy
Anglo-French rivalry in India and the Eastern Seas, 1763-1793

Bruce Mitchell
A history of the public school teachers' organisation in New South Wales, 1855 to 1945

Walter Phillips
Christianity and its defence in New South Wales circa 1880 to 1890

James Richmond
Country town growth in south-eastern Australia: Three regional studies, 1861-1891

John Ritchie
Punishment and profit: The reports of Commissioner Bigge on the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1923; their origins, nature and significance

John Tillotson
Clerical petitions, 1350-1450: A study of some aspects of the relations of crown and church in the later Middle Ages

1968
Peter S. Bolger
Hobart town society 1855-1895.

Hope V. Fitzhardinge
The establishment of the north-west frontier of Afghanistan 1884-1888.

Don I. Wright
Commonwealth and States 1901-1910: a study of the executive and administration relations of the seven governments of Australia in the first decade of the federal system.

1967
Jim Hagan
A history of the Typographical Societies and The Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, 1850-1927

Philip R. Hart
J.A. Lyons: a political biography.

John A. Merritt
A History of the Federated Iron Workers' Association of Australia, 1909-1952.

1966
Brian Dickey
Charity in New South Wales, 1850-1914: A study in public, private and state provisions for the poor

W.M. Hale
Afghanistan, Britain and Russia, 1905-1921

P.H.M. Van Den Dungen
Land transfer, social change and political stability in the Punjab, 1849-1901

1965
Eric Andrews
Austrlaian opinion and the European crises, 1935-1939

Gordon Leslie Buxton
Land and people: A study of settlement and society in the Riverina, 1861-1891

Miriam Dixson
Reformists and revolutionaries: An interpretation of the relations between the Socialists and the mass labour organisations in New South Wales, 1919-1927, with special reference to Sydney

Hugh Owen
The leadership of the Indian naional movement, 1914-1920

1964
Leon Atkinson
Australian defence policy: A study of empire and nation (1897-1910)

Geoffrey Bartlett
Political organisation and society in Victoria, 1864-1883

Ravinder Kumar
State and society in Maharashtra in the nineteenth century

Phyllis Mitchell
Social aspects of the Depression in New South Wales, 1930-1934

Duncan Waterson
Town and country: The development of society on the Darling Downs, 1859-1993

1963
John Barrett
Church, state and people in eastern Australia, 1835-1850

John Broomfield
Politics and the Bengal Legislative Council, 1912-1926

Peter Reeves
The landlords' response to political change in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India, 1921-1937

1962
Alan Barcan
Opinion, policy and practice in New South Wales education, 1833-1880: The development of an educational tradition

Keith Bowes
Land settlement in South Australia, 1857-1900

Bruce Kent
Reparation and the German financial system, 1919-1924

Robert Lawrence
The development of professional social work in Australia

Margaret Steven
Robert Campbell, colonial merchant, 1769-1846

Ian Turner
Industrial labor and politics: The dynamics of the labor movement in eastern Australia, 1900-1921

Edgar Waters
Some aspects of the popular arts in Australia, 1880-1915

1961

1960
Patrick O'Farrell
H.E. Holland and the labour movement in Australia and New Zealand: With special emphasis on the activity of militant socialists

Michael Roe
Society and thought in eastern Australia, 1835-1851

Timothy Suttor
The Catholic church in the Australian colonies, 1840-1865

Master of Arts
Derek Carrington
The gold rushes of New South Wales, 1851-1874

1959
John Tregenza
The life and work of C.H. Pearson, 1830-1894

1958

1957

1956
Eric Fry
the condition of the urban wage-earning classes in Australia in the 1880s

Russel Ward
The ethos and influence of the Australian pastoral worker

1955
Allan Martin
Political groupings in New South Wales, 1872-1889: A study in the working of responsible government