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- ‘National heroes not national villains’: South Australia and the atomic age
This essay was first published as ch 8 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia, Adelaide. APH, 1996, pp.155-176....
- ‘Never had time’: An oral history of a working childhood
This article was published originally by the Constitutional Museum (History Trust of South Australia) in Come out (Adelaide, 1983), and the author thanks History SA for permission to reproduce it....
- ‘Picturesque Scientific Gardening’: developing Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-1891
This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.126-146, and is reprinted here with minor changes....
- ‘We Have Found Our Paradise’: the South-East squattocracy, 1840-1870
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of SA No.17, 1989, pp.25-38 and is republished here with minor corrections....
- A brief history of Holy Trinity Church Adelaide
This essay is a revised version of one prepared for the church, intended for use in a pamphlet about the church....
- A Heritage History of the South-East of South Australia
This essay first appeared as ‘The thematic and chronological history’ section of the report Heritage of the South East prepared by Danvers Architects for the Department of Environment and Planning and published in 1984. This was a report on the herit...
- A History of Sunnybrae Farm
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- A History of the Dover Gardens Kennel & Obedience Club
Beth M Robertson, ‘A History of the Dover Gardens Kennel & Obedience Club: The First Thirty Years’, in Dover Gardens Kennel and Obedience Club Inc. ... training schedule, general information and Club history The Club, Dover Gardens, S. Aust., 1999, p...
- A History of Woodville 1977-1987
Susan Marsden , A history of Woodville 1977-1987, unpublished typescript, 1987....
- A short history of Kangaroo Island
Originally published as Part 1.2 Regional History of Heritage of Kangaroo Island , a regional heritage study by Heritage Investigations commissioned and published by the Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide, 1991, and republished here by...
- A worthy sisterhood’: the founding mothers of 1836′
Originally presented as a lecture to the Historical Society of SA Nov 1999. As a result there are no references. Very much an introduction....
- Adelaide Hotels and Temperance 1860-1930
This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.87-105, and is reprinted here with minor changes....
- Arthur Hardy of ‘Mount Lofty House’
Originally a public lecture...
- Assessing the architectural merits of the former Bank of NSW Adelaide
This essay first appeared in the Newsletter of the Historical Society of SA 1992....
- Building the Central Market
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- Care for dependent children in South Australia, 1888
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 10, 1982, pp.84-91. It is based on access to the Admission Registers of the State Children’s Council, the principal government agency responsible for the care...
- Collections and Curators: South Australian Museum Anthropology from the 1860s to the 1920s
This article first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of SA, no.16 1988, pp,87-103 and is republished here with minor corrections....
- Doing it hard: the Port Adelaide Central Mission during the depression, 1926-1925 by Brian Dickey
This essay explores the complex activities of the Port Adelaide Central Mission during the Depression, investigates what it attempted, its success, and the problems still remaining. Sources include minutes and files held by the Mission, and their pub...
- Endangered Species And ‘National Football’, 1986-1990
This paper was delivered on 13 July 2005 to the biennial conference of the Australian Society for Sports History, Sporting Traditions XV held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The main sources used were the Football Times Yearbooks and SANFL Annual Re...
- Entertainment in the Playford era: the changing scene
This essay originally appeared as ch. 15 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1996, pp.295-318, and...
- Explorer in Light
This essay first appeared in bibliofile August 2009 and is reproduced here with the permission of the State Library of South Australia...
- First flights in South Australia’s systematic beekeeping and honey harvesting Pt I
The author's interest in beekeeping arose from a research project commissioned in 2002 by the Apiary Industry Consultative Committee of PIRSA and the Kangaroo Island Beekeepers’ Association. This was to establish when and how the Ligurian bee was int...
- First flights in South Australia’s systematic beekeeping and honey harvesting Pt II
The author's interest in beekeeping arose from a research project commissioned in 2002 by the Apiary Industry Consultative Committee of PIRSA and the Kangaroo Island Beekeepers’ Association. This was to establish when and how the Ligurian bee was int...
- Fraud – Walter Watson Hughes & the Moonta and Wallaroo Mines
This essay was first presented at the 18 th State History Conference in Kadina, 31 July -2 Aug 2009. It is an extract from ‘Walter Watson Hughes and the Moonta and Wallaroo Mines’ by Patricia June Sumerling. MA Thesis, Department of History, Flinders...
- Geese and Golden Eggs: South Australia’s Sandalwood Industry, 1925-1940.
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- George Fife Angas: On Mining Operations
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia vol 6, 1979, pp.55-66, and is reprinted here with minor amendments....
- God’s Gift or Demon Drink? Churches and Alcohol in South Australia Between the Two World Wars
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 15, 1987, pp.16-41, and is reproduced here with minor corrections....
- Goolwa Post Office – A History
This history of Goolwa Post Office was written by Caroline Cosgrove. It was commissioned by Australia Post through the Victorian architectural practice, Lovell Chen, as part of a conservation and management plan for the post office. The author acknow...
- Grace Montgomery Howard/Farrell: founding wife, mother and grandmother of Trinity
This essay was first published in Trinity Times, a magazine of Holy Trinity Anglican Church Adelaide, in December 1999, and appears here with minor amendments....
- H.B.Hawke of Kapunda – A biographical essay
This unpublished essay is part of original family history research into Henry Binney Hawke through Cornish Parish Records, both in Cornwall and online, the Kapunda Herald , the Adelaide and Kapunda Rate Assessment records and his rather convoluted la...
- Heritage of Eyre Peninsula: a short history
This essay first appeared as the historical section of the Heritage of the Eyre Peninsula , a report prepared as part of the SA State Historic Preservation Plan Regional Heritage Survey Series by and was published in 1987 by the Department of Environ...
- Heritage of the Upper North Region: Background History
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- High And Dry By The Mangroves? South Australia’s Dry Creek Explosives Magazines
Originally presented at the Fifth Australian Urban History Planning History Conference, University of South Australia, 13-15 April 2000, and published in the Conference Proceedings , edited by Christine Garnaut and Stephen Hamnett, University of Sout...
- Hindmarsh – a short history
Susan Marsden wrote this essay originally as the introductory paragraph and Part one, ‘The physical and historical context’, of the report Hindmarsh Heritage Survey prepared by John Dallwitz and Susan Marsden (Heritage Investigations), assisted by Ri...
- Hotels in the Adelaide Hills: patterns of development
this essay was first presented to the Historical Society of SA in 2006...
- Housing the Workers in South Australia during World War Two
Susan Marsden, ‘Housing the workers’, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia 16, 1988; also in Homefront: South Australia at war 1939-1945 Old Parliament House, Adelaide, 1988....
- Is heritage history? History and the built environment
Susan Marsden was State Historian, Community History Unit, History Trust of South Australia, when this essay was published in Community History (June 1992, pp. 6-9). An earlier version of this paper was given in 1990 at a seminar on ‘The Planning Rev...
- Johannes Menge: More than ‘The Father of South Australian Mineralogy’
Bernard O’Neil (O’Neil Historical & Editorial Services, PO Box 2, Klemzig SA 5087) is preparing a biography of Johannes Menge. Information provided will be added to the ‘Menge Archive’ that is being developed in South Australia and Germany....
- Keswick Barracks
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- Kingston SE – An Overview History
Peter Bell and Susan Marsden, ‘Overview History’, ‘Chronology of Events’ and bibliography, Kingston Heritage Survey , report to District Council of Kingston, Adelaide, 2008, pp 7-52, 289-303....
- Living in Prospect in the Playford Era
Originally published as ch.9 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia, Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide, 1996, pp.177- 200....
- Madam Harpur: the trials and tribulations of an Adelaide doctoress
Winner of the Catherine Mary Gilbert Prize organised by the History SA 2006...
- Making a difference: oral history and community health
This work was presented at the State History Conference, Adelaide, in 2006, the International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney, in 2007, and appeared in the Oral History Association of Australia (South Australia/Northern Territory) newslet...
- Marginalising Evangelicals: Thomas Binney in South Australia 1858-1859
This essay originally appeared in the Journal of the United Reformed Church Historical Society , vol. 4, no. 9, Dec 1991, pp.540-65, and is reprinted here with minor amendments. An abbreviated version appeared in Lucas: an evangelical history review,...
- Metropolitan Adelaide: a short history
This essay first appeared as chapter 7 of Jenny Walker (ed.), South Australia’s Heritage, Department of Environment & Planning, Adelaide, 1986, pp. 87-100. It is republished here with permission, but without the illustrations or the inserted boxes pr...
- Motor cars and freeways measures of a South Australian love affair
This essay first appeared as chapter 10 , pp.201-21, in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round eds, Playford’s South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968 Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide 1996,...
- Murrabinna (Blackford Reserve), near Kingston SE
Peter Bell and Susan Marsden, Blackford Reserve assessment , in Kingston Heritage Survey , report to District Council of Kingston, Adelaide, 2008....
- National Trust of South Australia 50th year history
Carol Cosgrove and Susan Marsden , ‘Chapter 2 Groundwork, 1955-64’, in Challenging Times , National Trust of South Australia 50th Year History , National Trust of South Australia, Adelaide, 2005, pp 25–50....
- Oral History Interview with Gordon Kramm
Gordon Kramm has lived all his life in Church Street, in Hahndorf. He was born on 8 September 1928. His father, Lawrence William Edger Kramm, born 1904, married Elizabeth Mary Gallasch, who was born in Verdun. Gordon’s great grandparents are the Herb...
- Oral History Interview with Grant and Carol Paech
Grant Paech was born on 5 December 1940 in Mount Barker. His father was Hermann Christian, born in Paechtown and he died in 1969. His mother was Leslie Alexandra Paech. The first Hahndorf generation of the Paechs – Johann Georg Paech with family – ca...
- Oral History Interview with Harold Gallasch
Harold Gallasch was born on 21 May 1943 in Adelaide and grew up in Glen Osmond. His mother was Ida Martha Menzel. She was born in Hahndorf on 21 September 1914. Harold’s father Ernest Leonard Gallasch was born 26 February 1905 in Grunthal. The marrie...
- Orphaned in South Australia: Oral histories about growing up at Goodwood Orphanage
This article originated as an address to the Historical Society of South Australia in October 1994, when the author was Oral History Officer at the State Library of South Australia. The author acknowledges and thanks Advertiser Newspapers Ltd and the...
- Playford’s metropolis
Susan Marsden, ‘Playford’s metropolis’, in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round eds, Playford’s South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968 Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide 1996, pp.117-134....
- Playford’s South Australia: Introduction
This essay first appeared in the volume, Playford's South Australia: Essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, edited by Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery and Kerrie Round, and published by the Association of Professional Historians SA [now t...
- Port Elliot and Goolwa — a short history
Part 1 ‘Summary of history’, in Edwin Noack, Susan Marsden and John Dallwitz, Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study , Ed Noack and Associates in association with Heritage Investigations, and Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study Steering Committee, A...
- Post War Church Dynamics: Holy Trinity, Adelaide 1946-73 as a case study
First published in "Lucas: an Evangelical History Review, no. 5, 1989, pp.23-28 and reprinted here with minor amendments....
- Red Gum: Crafts Of Necessity, Historical Introduction
Susan Marsden, Historical introduction, John Dallwitz, Susan Marsden and Lyn Collins, Red Gum: crafts of necessity Jam Factory, Adelaide, 1989, pp 1-5....
- Reflections of the time – South Australian nurses bound for the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
An earlier version of this paper was originally presented under the title, Close Your Eyes and Think of England: Australian Nurses in the Boer War , at the Post Graduate Conference, School of Historical Studies (Monash University), North Melbourne, 2...
- Saving South Australia’s Babies: the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association
This essay first appeared in the volume, Playford's South Australia: Essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, edited by Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery and Kerrie Round, and published by the Association of Professional Historians SA [now t...
- Scenes of Early South Australia: the letters of Joseph Keynes of Keyneton
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol 10, 1982, and is reprinted here with minor amendments....
- Sister Frieda Selma Klotzbücher (1899-1944) Lutheran Missionary in World War 2
Frieda Klotzbücher was one of 333 church missionaries were died during the Japanese occupation of Papua New Guinea in World War 2. The largest number were Roman Catholic (197) but all major denominations suffered losses. Some names are relatively wel...
- Sketch notes on South Australia’s Onkaparinga threshing roller, and some antecedents Part 1
South Australia 's Onkaparinga threshing roller was the subject of a shorter and even more tentative paper given at a History Trust of South Australia (now History SA) State History Conference several years ago. This essay extends and illustrates tha...
- Sketch notes on South Australia’s Onkaparinga threshing roller, and some antecedents Part 2
South Australia's Onkaparinga threshing roller was the subject of a shorter and even more tentative paper given at a History Trust of South Australia (now History SA) State History Conference several years ago. This essay extends and illustrates that...
- South Australia’s ‘German’ MPs in World War I – the limits of tolerance
This paper was delivered at a Workshop held at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, on 14 May 2011, and was subsequently published in Stock, H.M.P. (ed.), Becoming South Australian: Germans in a British context , Friends of Lutheran Archiv...
- South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan: Historical Guidelines
Susan Marsden, South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan: Historical guidelines (part 1), SA Department for the Environment, Adelaide 1980, 1983, reproduced here by permission....
- St John’s Church – An Early History of a Colonial Church
This essay was originally submitted as an assignment for graduate studies undertaken in 1999. It was revised and expanded in 2010-2011....
- Starting the first Anglican church in Adelaide
First published in "Trinity Times", the magazine of Holy Trinity Church Adelaide December 2006...
- Storekeepers or Health Professionals; pharmacists in Adelaide 1870-1930
This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.147-158, and is reprinted here with minor changes....
- The ‘Playmander’: Its origins, operation and effect on South Australia
This essay first appeared in Bernard O'Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1996, pp.73-90....
- The Adelaide Fish Market 1870-1930
This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.179-92, and is reprinted here with minor changes....
- The Aestheticization Of The Don
This essay was first delivered as a paper to the State History Conference in Adelaide in 2002. It was published in the English magazine Cricket Lore in August 2004 and appears in my book Off Cuts: Writings on Sport (Axiom, 2008)....
- The Darker Side of Motherhood: Abortion and Infanticide in South Australia
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia , vol 13, 1985, pp.111-127....
- The Discovery and Settlement of the Fleurieu Peninsula and the Angas/Bremer Region 1802–1861
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia , no.14, 1986, pp.51-66....
- The Heritage of the upper North: a short history
This essay was written by Peter Bell in 1998 as part of the unpublished consulting report Heritage of the Upper North, a project commissioned by the South Australian Department for Environment, Heritage & Aboriginal Affairs and completed in 2000 by a...
- The Historic South-West Corner of Adelaide
This booklet was the result of a short project, initiated by the Adelaide City Council, which aimed to produce a picture of the identity and nature of the community living south of Gouger Street and west of Whitmore Square, a residential and partly l...
- The Influence of Transport on the Development of South Australian country towns
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- The Lower North of South Australia – a short history
Susan Marsden, Part 1.4 ‘Regional history’, in John Dallwitz and Susan Marsden of Heritage Investigations, assisted by assisted by Penny Baker, Pam Carlton and Paul Stark, Heritage of the Lower North (South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan...
- The Old Spot Hotel, Gawler: a development history
This article was part of a conservation study of the Old Spot Hotel undertaken by Bruce Harry Architects ca 2006-7 and is reprinted here with permission....
- The Origins of the Church Missionary Society in South Australia, 1910-1917
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia no. 17, 1989, pp.62-77 and is republished here with minor alterations....
- The Religion of Legacy: ‘to visit orphans and widows in their affliction’
This essay first appeared in Lucas: an Evangelical History Review nos 23 & 24, 1997-8, pp.63-82 and is reprinted here with minor amendments. For greater detail on the Legacy Club of Adelaide, see Brian Dickey, A Generation of Legacy service: South Au...
- The River Murray region of South Australia – a short history
Susan Marsden, Part 1.2 ‘Regional history’, in John Dallwitz and Susan Marsden of Heritage Investigations assisted by Peter Donovan of Donovan and Associates, Heritage of the River Murray (South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan Regional He...
- The Role of Government in the Formation of Country Towns in South Australia
Susan Marsden, ‘The role of government in the formation of country towns in South Australia’, AF Denholm, S Marsden and K Round (eds), Terowie workshop: exploring the history of South Australian country towns, University of Adelaide and History Trust...
- The South Adelaide Creche, 1887-1936
This essay began life in the context of a hearing before the courts to determine the heritage value of what remained of the South Adelaide Creche building in Gouger Street, Adelaide. A revised text was published in JHSSA vol.16, 1988, pp.159-164....
- The South Australian Economy in World War II
This essay began as a lecture to a seminar convened by the Historical Society of South Australia on ‘The Homefront: South Australia in World War II’, on 25 October 1987. It was subsequently published in JHSSA vol.16, 1988, pp.22-29, and is reproduced...
- The War Veterans Home Myrtle Bank 1915-2005
This article summarises the book of the same name commissioned by the Home and published by them in 2005....
- The West End of Adelaide, 1870-1930
This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.27-41, and is reprinted here with minor changes....
- Transport in and about Adelaide — c1865
This essay was first prepared as part of the exhibition of the Dureya panorama of Adelaide at History SA....
- Travels in time: the Barossa Valley in the 1850s, around 1900, and in the 1940s
Susan Marsden, ‘The Barossa study 1989’, in Tim Clemow and Susan Marsden, Tourism and Australian multicultural heritage , printed by Adelaide College of TAFE, Adelaide 1989, (pp.71-138)....
- What have social workers done?
Dr. Brian Dickey, then Reader in History at Flinders University, addressed an Australian Association of Social Workers (South Australia) Branch Meeting on July 15th, 1985. The after dinner talk was subsequently published in The South Australian Socia...
- Wowser Adelaide at the time of the First World War
2006 (An occasional talk)...
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