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Series 4: University of Adelaide 1963-1976  (2.4 m)

Papers in this series may include notes compiled while employed previous research and teaching positions.

4.1 Correspondence

‘Curriculum vitae’ file containing Tregenza’s correspondence with the University re his application and withdrawal from the position of Professor of History 1968-69; withdrawal from a Research Fellowship at Flinders University 1971; resignations from the Works of Art and Sites and Ground Committees, and as Reader in History in 1972 etc


4.2 General departmental files

‘History Dept history’

Newspaper clippings re Dr Gordon Buxton (1972) and Hugh Stretton & Prof. James Michael (1969); lists of and notes re Staff seminars 1967; Typescript circular/discussion paper ‘Australian History as a first year subject’ by A.W. Martin, [1965?]; list of History Dept films; History Dept Roneod newsletters 1 & 2 issued by Hugh Stretton March & August 1965; Terminal examination paper May 1920 ‘History of the United Kingdom’ (includes Latin text)


Oral History.

  • Includes correspondence, general notes, technical notes and purchase of tapes, transcripts of interview with J.T. Lang and Herbert Taylor (March 1963).
  • List of departmental historical recordings on Australian History; notes on recordings and equipment
  • List of Audio learning discussion tapes


The Honours Course in History

  • Handouts ca 1973; Alternative proposals for Honours final year 1969?; Questions for essay final examination Honours 1970, and ms ‘General points on essay question.’ Also booklet ‘Honours courses in history (undated), Honours Students dissertations 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971

Folder containing lists of Adelaide and Flinders theses, circulars re history topics and how to choose a topic, lists of interstate theses, current MA and PhD theses, past theses supervised 1963-, and notes on completed theses

List of History Dept fund periodicals subscriptions December 1996

List of all Xeroxed articles which could be found in the Honours Room, 1969


4.3 Teaching / lecture notes

Australian history: course handouts etc

  • Australian History reading lists 1964-1974 (includes Honours & Post-graduate seminar list 1973; list of lectures
  • 3rd term 1974). Also letter to ‘John, Lotte, Alan’ re content of Australian History first term course 1967?
  • Final Honours seminar programmes 1964-71
  • ‘Plans for 1968-69’: Notes and comments on projected course 1968; Tutorial list 1969; First term lecture list 1967; Reading guide 1967
  • Folder of examination papers: History II/III 1974; Australian History II First essay questions 1968 & Second term essay 1967
  • ‘A guide to sources to Australian history’ – typed references; ‘tentative framework’; booklet/handout ‘University of Adelaide, Dept of History. ‘Journal articles on Australian history’ Compiled 1970 (100 p.)
  • Tregenza’s ms ‘Scheme of lectures’ 1973
  • Typescript drafts for essay topic on the History of Adelaide
  • Seminar 5 May. ‘The significance of mining in Australian history.’ Handout, typed and ms notes


Australian history: research notes

  • ‘Little Londons’ (2 folders) Old notes on Melbourne and Sydney. Includes newspaper clippings, copies of articles, ms notes on Charles Pearson’s Melbourne etc, typescript Seminar paper ‘The Golden Age of the Melbourne Bourgeoisie’ [while at ANU?], ms and typescript notes on ‘The Golden age of the bourgeoisie’ 1963, Australian History II handout ‘Australian Ideology 1860-1891: lecture notes 1/8/1969’
  • [Notes compiled from previous research] Squatters; labour and industry; Seminar on Australian Economic and Social History 1840-1900 papers ‘The pastoral industry of New South Wales 1860-1900’ / Neville Cain and Residential Investment in Boom and Depression / N.G. Butlin; the Golden Age of the bourgeoisie; colonisation; notes for Newcastle University(?) Lecture VII on The evolution of democracy; the Liberal radical tradition; welfare state; Imperial federation
  • Australian History Field Trip 1967: student reports on Quorn, Port Pirie, Gawler, Gordon, Hawker, Burra, Kapunda, Petersburg as the starting point of NE railway
  • Frank Hardy. Power without Glory (Hardy’s book ‘The Hard Way’; research notes; showing of film ‘The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor’ at the University of Adelaide 1969; ‘Power without Glory’ glossary) etc
  • ‘Class in Australian History’ ca 1973. Ms and typed notes; handout: Results of 1969 wealth survey.
    ‘Historical background to Australian politics.’ Typed questions for consideration; ms notes on course ca 1964. Includes letter of thanks to Tregenza from History Club, 1964
  • Women in Australian history. Topic week ending 21 Sept: The role of women in public life.’ Typed and ms notes; ms notes on ‘Public role of women 1870-1939’; handout for Politics I 1973 Women’s Studies seminar on ‘An object lesson in women’s history’ / Anne Summers; ms notes from sources
  • The coming of responsible government? Notes for Lecture 2 ‘The coming of colonial self-government’; Work in progress seminar paper ‘The fundamental relationship between Land and Chisholm’ / T. Suttor; newspaper clippings
  • Labor movement 1890-. Research notes and notes for lectures ca 1968-74 on trade unions, Labor/Labour Party, strikes etc. Includes student notes for History IV seminar, radical and socialist ideas notes from tutorials 1968
    ‘Capital versus Labour’ newspaper cuttings from The Advertiser 8/2/1909
  • Labour Movement folder: newspaper clippings ca 1960-; booklet ‘The light glows brighter’ / John Burton (Sydney, 1956?); Politics Dept Seminar handout 1967; typescript ‘Labour, Socialism and the working class’ / D.W. Rawson (Political Science Dept, Seminar on Australian Political Thought); extracts from ‘History of the Eight Hours’ Movement’ / W.E. Murphy (1896)
  • Nineties & Labour Party. Typed and ms notes on Maritime Strike 1890, strikes & trade unions, Labour Party. Includes typescript ‘Trade Unions’ / R. Gollan (Seminar on Australian Economics and Social History 1840-1900)
  • Socialist Labor Party of Australia. Copies of ‘The People’ newspaper Dec./Jan. 1965 re conscription, and May 1965; Party pamphlets ca 1964 on ‘A social crime’, ‘Strikes and the public’, ‘Greatest robbery in history’, ‘What is socialism’ and ‘I can get it for you wholesale’ and ‘Capitalism, state despotism or real socialism’; Manifesto of the Socialist Labor Party of Australia 1961; February 13 & May 29 1965 issues of the US Socialist Labor Party newspaper ‘Weekly people.’ Communist party and Lang. Booklet ‘An outline history of the Australian Communist party / L.L. Sharkey with ‘Twenty years of the Communist International’ / G. Kuusinen (1944) , ms notes
  • The radical Left in the 1930s. Typed account of a conversation with Mrs Edhouse and David Walker, 17/12/1968 re J.S. Langley
  • Experimental colonisation. Foundation of South Australia. Notes on sources; notes for seminars tutorials 1964, 1964, 1967; typed notes on Representation of Jews in Colonial Parliaments’; notes on colonisation in New Zealand and Wakefield; Sheet on Experimental colonization in USA. (2 folders)
  • State Experiments. Includes notes from sources on state socialism in Victoria and South Australia; public works policies of Australian colonial governments; the growth of Sydney 1891; seminar paper by Tregenza on ‘The Melbourne Review and its contributors 1876-1879’ [while at ANU?]; state experiments Australia and New Zealand 1880-1900; and foundations of the welfare state. Also Welfare State folder – A.C.O.S.S. Social service in South Australia: includes copy of 8th Annual Report of Australian Council of Social Service, 1963-64, and 18th Annual Report of the South Australian Council of Social Service, 1964, and news clippings. (2 folders)
  • Australia and the South African War 1899-1902. Includes photocopied articles, ms notes, chronology of Boer War and questions for discussion; typed extracts from newspapers. Boer War folder: includes transcriptions of letters written to the Sydney Daily Telegraph by Professors G.A. Wood and M.W. MacCallum, 1901-2(handout?), notes on British Parliamentary debates, and article on Russian naval visitors to Australia 1862-1888. (2 folders)
  • Australia during World War I. Includes handouts Lecture notes 14/10/1970 and ‘Australia and the Peace Conference’; ms and typed lecture notes; student Interim Honours tutorial papers on ‘How well did Hughes manage Australia’s external affairs 1915-1923?’ and on ‘Hughes and foreign policy’; notes from 1966 lectures by Ian Turner and Ken Inglis.
  • World War I – Hughes: Conscription. Includes booklets: The Australian victory over conscription in 1916-17 / E.J. Holloway (1966) and The conscription plebiscites in Australia 1916-17 / F.B. Smith (1966); newspaper clippings introductory paper ‘Interaction between the Australian forces and the indigenous population during the Middle East campaign of World War I / Suzanne Brugger 1973 (typescript); ms teaching notes; Current Affairs Bulletin issue ‘Conscription and conscience’ 1967; History tutorial paper ‘Why did Hughes advocate conscription …’ / P.J. Armstrong 1968; cartoons re Billy Hughes etc
  • The Communistic settlements in SA & Paraguay. Includes copy of report by Macdonell W. Woods on ‘W.W. Head and the New Australia Movement (1942) ; typed and ms notes and correspondence on the New Australia and Cosme settlements; copy of photo of farewell gathering for New Australia emigrants 1893; Tregenza’s speech at launch of ‘With Lane in Paraguay” / Don Gobbett and Malcolm Saunders (1995); typescript ‘Two works of William Lane: a psychoanalytical approach’ / Peter Bruce (ANZAAS Conference paper 1971); typescript ‘In defence of political utopianism’ / Graham Duncan.
  • E.G. Theodore Election Speech 1929. Broadcast transcript (typescript)


Australian History I

  • Suburban Histories. 1970 Local History Research Project: Victorian Adelaide. Handout ‘Burnside 1870-1890 (5 p.); handout with graphs and tables ‘North Adelaide 1870-95’; handout ‘Norwood’; handout Hindmarsh 1870-1890


Australian History IB

  • Economic & social history of United Kingdom. Handouts, lecture scripts and supporting material 1968, extracted from box file (2 folders)
  • Lists and tutorial topics 1972 and handouts: course outlines, reading
  • Paper: ‘Australian history in the first year: a report on an experiment’ / John Young 1971; Reprint: ‘The responsibility of intellectuals’ / Noam Chomsky; Course outline & reading 1971; Tutorial guide: Urban project 1972
  • Liberal Country Party Coalition 1949-; includes Lecture notes handout October 1971 ‘The shadow of war & the light on the hill”; photocopied reading list handout; ms notes on the Coalition
  • Suburban Histories. Adelaide Urban Project 1971. Handouts for Hindmarsh, City (Gawler Ward), City (Hindmarsh Ward), City (Young Ward), Burnside, Glenelg, Mitcham, North Adelaide, Norwood, Prospect, Unley, West Torrens & Thebarton
  • Suburban Histories. Adelaide Urban Project 1972. Handouts for Burnside (1870-1890), Adelaide metropolitan 1870-1890 & Adelaide City (1872-1892), Hindmarsh, Kensington and Norwood (1870-1890), Prospect (1870-1890), St Peters (1882-1902), Thebarton (1883-1900), Walkerville (1872-1892)


Australian History II - general

  • Roneoed extracts for use in lectures and tutorials and tutorial list 1966


Australian History II: Liberalism

  • Notes from Ingham on Some aspects of Victorian liberalism etc
  • ‘Illiberalism in twentieth century Australia’ (typed lecture script); handout ‘Some laws, events and protest organizations and a bibliography; ms and typed notes
  • Liberalism (Aust) folder: includes Flinders University History handout on Progressive Liberalism in NSW 1890-1900 (1975); typed and ms notes from sources; UofA History II handout 1966 on Victorian Constitutional Crisis; politics in Australia timeline 1870-1896; notes for essay on ‘The relation of the individual to his plot of land forms the basic content of Australian political history from 1850-1890’; typed sheet on ‘Aust. Hist. 3rd year Arts: some questions and problems.’
  • Typed lecture script for lecture on ‘C.H. Pearson and the evolution of colonial Liberalism’; handouts “Liberalism in Australia from Wentworth to Evatt: some quotations and books”
  • “Liberalism – from Wentworth to Evatt” ca 1972 (2 folders)


Australian History II: Constitutional crisis in Victoria 1877-80

  • Constitutional crisis in Victoria 1877-80. Typed and ms notes ca 1965 from sources re Parliament and payment of members, constitutional reform, Pearson, the Victorian embassy; cartoon ‘Collapsed’ re constitutional crisis.
  • Notes from thesis ‘The economic and political development in Victoria, 1877-1881’ / F.E. Parnaby (Melbourne University, 1961).
  • Folder: Cartoons and documents = photocopies of contemporary political cartoons


Australian History II: Federation

  • Folder 1: Commonwealth of Australia. Report from the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review, October 1958; Booklets: The people and the constitution / R.S. Parker (1949); Sixty years of Federation in Australia / K.W. Robinson (Geographical Review, 1961); Referendum booklets for constitutional alteration 1973 and 1974
  • Folder 2: Typescript: Some aspects of the political nature of the High Court of Australia / Graham Loughlin (Politics I, 1970); U. of Adelaide Australian History II handouts: The Federal Movement, a chronology; readings for Tutorial on White Australia Policy; and typescript notes for History IV seminar, Adelaide 1963; Ms notes and newspaper clippings 1960, 1966; Typescript list of Australian Federation pamphlets in State Library of SA; Typescript: Seminar on Australian political thought: Australian approaches to Federalism / J.M. Tregenza (Political Science Dept, [Newcastle University], 1958)


Australian History II: Australian Economic and Social History 1840-1900

  • ‘Eureka’ folder of typed and ms notes for teaching; seminar paper on ‘Gold’ by C.M.H. Clark; student handout on sources 1966
  • Seminar paper ‘The politics of land reform’ / D.W.A. Baker
  • ‘Australia: Pageant of Progress’ SM Herald 10/7/1961. Graphic broadsheet of progress in Government, commerce, secondary industry, primary industry and public works and services 1788-1960.


Australian History II: ALP in government and opposition 1935-1951

  • Reading handout: ‘The task ahead’ / John Curtin from Herald 27/12/1941; ms and typed notes; booklet ‘Socialism and the ALP’ / J.F. Cairns (1963); Handouts History IIIA special subject 1965 – tutorial questions and reading lists; handouts History IIIA 1965 Australia and the Pacific lectures; 1965 student tutorial list; pamphlet ‘The tactics of the Australian press’ / T.M. Wixted & Co (Public Forum, Qld. Pamphlet 22 19/12/1965)


Australian History II: Constitution making in the States / Gold Rushes and Democracy

  • Ms notes from sources; notes for lectures; main questions


Australian History II: Early Governors

  • Typed notes for ‘Lecture V on Rum Rebellion; typed notes from sources on Bligh and the Rum Rebellion; lecture notes on “Peasants and proprietors’; lecture notes on Phillip to Bligh; Macarthur; also notes for History III lecture on The early governors and their problems
  • Notes for a tutorial on Macquarie 1964/1966/1967
  • Notes on Macquarie and the Bigge Commission


Australian History II: State aid for private schools

  • Handouts for History II – Australian 1966 – source documents on public instruction; typed notes on church and state and education in SA; typed notes on state education policies for Interim Honours tutorials, 1968; ‘Report of consultation on religious instruction in state schools held in Adelaide, November 15th and 16th, 1968 / Australian Frontier (with paper ‘Religious instruction in state schools in educational perspective’ / E.L. French; Flinders University School of Social Sciences, History work-in-progress paper 3/7/1968 ‘Church and society in South Australia 1890-1900’ / Maurice French; typed notes; newspaper clippings; Current Affairs Bulletin v. 30, no. 6 1963 ‘State aid for independent schools’
  • Education Australia to 1870. Typed lecture ‘Education in Australia up to the passage of the first act bringing in free, compulsory secular education in 1872’; photo and list of masters and boys of Queen’s School, North Adelaide c. 1902
  • Australian schools 1870-1880. Handout and notes for State and church schools seminar; ms and typed notes on Catholic education; typed notes for lectures
  • ‘Tormore House School 1883-1920’ paper by Colleen Wells, History of Education student, Murray park College of Advanced Education, 1973


Australian History II: Catholics and the Australian Community.

  • Includes papers from ANU Seminar on Australian Economic and Social History 1840-1900 11/8/1958: ‘The position of Catholicism in Australia’ / T.L. Suttor and ‘The position of Catholicism in Australia 1840-1900’; research notes ca 1969; student Interim Honours paper ‘Influence of Roman Catholicism in Australian politics 1900-1932’; newspaper clippings 1963-66 and research notes on state aid for church schools; booklets ‘Encyclical letter … Pope Leo XIII … on the condition of the working classes’ (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1964), ‘Independent schools in a free society’ / Bishop James Carroll (Catholic Press Newspaper), ‘Equality in education: who should pay …’ / Kevin O’Sullivan (Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, 1961) and ‘Freedom of choice in education’ / Kathleen A. Woolf (Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, 1962)


Australian History II: Selection history in NSW and Victoria

  • Handout 1966 [summary of topics]; handout: land legislation – Strangways Act (SA) 1868; handout on Waste Lands Bill; handout on The Land Act (1862) Amendment Bill –Second reading; ms and typed notes from sources

Australian History II: ‘Expression of Australian nationalism in politics, literature and art in the 1860s and 1890s’ (typed lecture script; handout ‘Slides illustrating approaches to the Australian scene by painters of the nineteenth century’; discarded lecture script; notes re letter by Tom Robert’s mother


Australian History II: The British Isles and Australia

  • The British Isles and Australia 1788-1919 History II/III. Notes for proposed course, projected reading lists 1974-76; Tutorial topics & reading list for ‘Australia: Gold Rush to Great Depression’ History II/II 1975; corrected typescript ‘Liberalism old and new in Australia during the 19th century’
  • Folder labelled ‘Depression S.A.’: copy of letter containing information about gold panning in the Torrens Gorge in the 1930s Depression [for C.R. Broomhill’s thesis on ‘The unemployed in Adelaide on the 1920s and 1930s.’
  • Folder of ms and typed notes on the Depression and politics
  • SA Depression: notes from MA thesis ‘Government and depression in South Australia 1927-34’ / M.J. Thompson; typescript paper read to the Historical Society of SA 19/9/1974 ‘Exploring the Great Depression in South Australia’
  • ‘Depression in South Australia: introduction’: ms notes; handout on The South Australian Police Cadet System’; seminar? Paper ‘Class and occupation as two factors in determining the impact of the Depression of the thirties’ / Ray Broomhill 28/6/1973; Outline of his thesis structure; list compiled by Ray Broomhill on photographs in the SA Archives


History III

  • The British Isles & Australia 1830-1920 Lecture notes on Foundation & settlement, Convict system to 1812
    The British Isles & Australia: immigration. Student paper ‘Australian Migration Schemes – examination and evaluation / T Blunden, 1960 (U. of Newcastle History IV); synopsis of paper on immigration schemes; Ms notes


Australian History III

  • The Squatters Age. Notes for tutorial 1966; notes for Lecture IV; notes for Tutorial 9/7/64 ‘Influence of frontier conditions on transplanted English institutions …’; notes for Lecture 4 ‘Results of land legislation of the 1860s’; handout for University of Adelaide History and Music Society lecture recital on ‘Music at the Scandinavian Courts’ by Dr H.S.K. Kent; Roneo handout for Australian National University Seminar on Australian Economic and Social History 1840-1900 23 June 1958 on ‘Social thought in Eastern Australia 1835-50’ / Michael Roe; other notes etc
  • Changing balance of the Australian constitution: Essay topic & notes


Australian History IIIA

  • Possible outline of IIIA lectures Term III 1965; Lecture topics for discussion
    Tutorial topics: Problems in Australian History – some topics discussed in seminar papers 1960; Course outline 1963; Special subject topics 1963; lectures and reading list 2nd & 3rd terms 1963-64?; IIIA & Interim Honours special subject tutorials list 1965


Interim Honours

  • Honours Interim meeting and “Old Roneoed extracts’
  • Interim Honours 1968. Includes ideas for Model course (signed Brian S. 1972) and alternate proposals;; handouts on reading lists, tutorial topics, lectures etc; ms notes; student tutorial papers on Roman Catholicism and The New Guard
  • Interim Honours Australian History 1969. Roneoed material including tutorial topics, exam paper and readings
  • Interim Honours Australian History 1971. Includes exam paper, general handouts and tutorial topics (White Australia Policy, Trade Unions and the ALP, WWI and the Twenties, etc), film evenings, historical recordings etc
  • Interim Honours Australian History, 1972. Handouts, general and tutorial topics etc
  • Interim Honours Australian History, 1972-3. Handouts: Introduction to the tutorial topics & reading lists, extracts, past exam papers etc
  • Interim Honours 1973. Handouts: Introductory reading lists and tutorial topics; notes on ideas etc
  • Interim Honours 1974. Handouts for third term essay, tutorial topics (‘Little Londons’, Golden age of the bourgeoisie, Ned Kelly, state and independent schools, Liberalism, W.M. Hughes, utopias, Labor government, Boer War, Gallipoli, conscription, depression, ‘class’ etc)
  • Interim Honours 1975. Includes correspondence, handouts for units ‘ An introduction to research’; handouts for Honours dissertations 1974 & 1975; typescript “Topic titles or Research made easy for thesis writers and supervisors in South Australian history: a handy guide’ / F.K. Crowley, 1965; ; lists of History theses to September 1974 & 1975; list of History IIIS students; ideas for programme
  • South Australia 1919-35 (Interim honours 1974). Suggested readings, ideas, notes, sources
  • Australian film history. Includes handout of early SA documentary films shown to Interim Honours Australian History students; 1972 announcement of screening of The Sentimental Bloke; 1972 handout on film ‘Three in one; typescript ‘Australian historic films seen 18/6/1973; booklet ‘The beginnings of Australian cinema’ / Mervyn Wasson (Australian Film Institute, papers on the film in Australia, 1. 1964); handout ‘Some approximate dates in Australian film history’
  • Australia the dependent society. Ms notes for lecture; Ronoed extract handouts; ms notes for lecture on Dependence & Nationalism in Australia 1870s-1914; Interim honours exam paper August 1967; typed and ms notes from sources; ms notes on suggested series of lectures on ‘Conflict and continuity in Australian history”; handout Interim honours 3rd term tutorials 1968 for ‘Australia 1901-1932’
  • Tutorial topic: Can one generalise about ‘Australian’ history in the 1870s. 1968-69. Includes ms notes; typed Questions for discussion; handout ‘Comparative colonial statistics’, tutorial papers by Peter Bruce and Mr Daniels, 1968.
  • Ned Kelly. Australian History tutorial no. 3.Ms and typescript notes, book references, handout re film shown 1972 ‘When Harry Southwell rode or a little touch of Harry in the night.’ Copies of editorials from Australian newspapers 1880.
  • Evolution of Australian Defence Policy, 1887-1914, ca 1969. Includes photocopies related to Victoria League, journal articles, typescript ‘South Australian attitudes to the Imperial connection and the threat from overseas: their connection with the introduction of compulsory military training’ / M.T. Shepherd, 1974; student tutorial papers 1969.
  • World War I and the Twenties. Includes handout; ms notes from C.W.E. Bean etc; Australian Nationalism – C.E.W. Bean. Ms notes from sources, article by Geoffrey Searle ‘Knowing what it is like to be Australian’ (The Bulletin 31/10/1970; list of contents of the journal Forum 1922-24; 2 p. typewritten account of the Royal Commission on Child Endowment; progress reports by Margaret Barbalet on her thesis 1971 with a survey of secondary sources on the 1920s in Australia; programme for State Theatre Co. production of Louis Esson’s The Bride of Gospel Place, annotated; extract from Aust. House of Representatives Question time re state requests for Commonwealth assistance in preserving civil order 1916-1971; seminar(?) paper by Humphrey McQueen ‘The “Spanish influenza pandemic in Australia 1918-19’ (ANU Dept of History); handout ‘History 1B lecture notes 27/9/1971; typed notes for IIIA Tutorial: Sectional interests to the detriment of the national interest; ms and typed notes on government; lecture notes for History 1B course 1972, notes for Interim Honours Australian History course on WWI and the twenties, 1971 (2 folders)
  • J.T. Lang’s Political achievement (1968). 7 folders: newspaper cuttings and cartoons 1920s-30s, with summaries; J.T. Lang in the 1920s, including typed paper on Lang’s achievements, ms notes, notes by Miriam Dixon (1971) and others, 1968 seminar papers by J.G. Daniels; articles on J.T. Lang and the New Guard (from Honours Room); article on Lang from Stead’s Review 1/9/1927; Lang and the Depression 1929-32, includes newspaper clippings, ms notes, papers from ANU Dept of History Seminar on The 1930s Depression in Australia (The Socialisation Units / Robert Cooksey, Douglas Credit and the Australian Labor Party 1930-1936 / Baiba Berzins, The Amalgamated Engineering Union in the Depression / T. Sheridan, The Federated Ironworkers’ Association in the Depression / J.A. Merritt); J.T. Lang and Eric Campbell, includes newspaper articles, student papers etc
  • The first decade 1901-1911: Deakonite Liberalism. Includes handout of Interim Honours Australian History Tutorial topics and reading lists 1974, ‘Thoughts after reading essays 1973,’ research notes, Handout Lecture Notes 17/9/1969 for ‘Labour and the Commonwealth or the eclipse of utopia 1900-1912’


Interim Honours: White Australia policy

  • Folder 1: Incl tutorial notes for Honours Interim Australian History course, 1969; notes on Overseas Students Society; copies of ‘Immigration Quarterly’ (WA Association for Immigration Reform); papers of NSW Association for Immigration Reform; student papers from Newcastle University College Problems in Australian History course 1960-61)
  • Folder 2: Handouts for Australian History and Honours Interim of documents, readings etc 1972; newspaper clippings and articles 1971-74; ms chronology, draft questions, ms and typed notes from sources, notes for tutorials 1964, 1967 & 1968
  • Sources: newspaper cuttings 1963-73; booklets ‘Immigration in the ‘seventies’ / Phillip Lynch, Minister for Immigration (July 1970) and ‘The Evolution of a policy’ / Phillip Lynch, Minister for Immigration (March 1971); ms notes from sources
  • Notes for 1973 lectures on White Australia Policy; ms notes
  • Interim Honours 1969: White Australia Policy. Tutorial handout of documents inviting Asians into the Northern Territory 1877-79; reports on overseas Student Service Conference 1965; newspaper clippings on White Australia Policy and Asian University students; copies of ‘Immigration Quarterly’ Sept 1961-June 1964 (incomplete)
  • Race relations & White Australia Policy, 1972? Ms and typed lecture notes for Lectures I and II; handout Honours Interim: White Australia Policy (2 folders)


History IV

  • Convict system. 3 folders typed / ms notes; includes notes for History IV Seminar 1966
  • Seminars on Australian cities / urbanisation. Notes gathered towards year 4 seminars 1967, 1973-74; includes earlier notes ie ‘Aspects of Pearson’s Melbourne’, typescript of talk ‘Historical background to Australian politics’; and notes on population and urban growth. Also Town planning & urban history bibliography; Roneoed typescript ‘Urban growth in eastern Australia 1861-1891’ / R.V. Jackson (ANZAAS 43rd Congress, Brisbane, 1971); copy of preliminary draft article ‘A Model for urban history: the commercial-bureaucratic city and its application to Buenos Aires, 1880-1910’ / James Scobie ca 1974 (with letter from Graydon Hemming) (2 folders)


Honours (final) Australian History

  • White-Aboriginal relations (general). Includes outline for Honours tutorial paper; booklet ‘The policy of assimilation: decisions of Commonwealth and State Ministers at the native Welfare Conference, Canberra … 1961’; letter 14/12/1965 to C. Macnaughtan re thesis topic; typescript ‘The framework for a history of white-Aboriginal relations’ / IAH Turner (ANZAAS, January 1964)
  • History of Aboriginal-white relations in SA. Ms and typed notes from sources; Roneoed typescript ‘A brief outline of Aboriginal affairs in South Australia since colonization’ / Peter M. Rice, Dept of Aboriginal Affairs (Adelaide, March 7th 1963)
  • Seminar: Current problems in Australian History – 1967. Russell Ward: ‘The Australian Legend’. Handout, typed and ms notes; article ‘The Smallholders’ place in the Australian tradition.’
  • Seminar: Current problems in Australian History – 1968. ‘The city in history’. Handout, ms notes.
  • Australian History, 1969. Seminar series: Course A: Australian Historians. Includes prospectuses, and handouts for each topic
  • Special subject: The study of history. Includes questions, notes, Handout: Biographical notes on some Australian historians (including Douglas Pike: Paradise of Dissent), reading list, course and topic outlines. 1970
  • Special subject, 1970. Topic 6: History as biography. Includes Roneoed typescript ‘The political environment of Australia has prevented the emergence of charismatic leadership’ / Helen Wall, with ‘Evaluate the assessments made by Australian biographers of W.M. Hughes’ by J. Daniels; ms notes; handout ‘Australian historical biography: a lecturer’s guide to books published during the last twenty years’ / F.K. Crowley (ANZAAS may 1961); Typescript ‘W.M. Hughes as ABC Guest of Honour 20 January 1951’
  • Special subject: Literature as history. Type outline, ms and typed notes on Henry Handel Richardson, Patrick White etc
  • Historiography. Includes ms notes on History honours second paper; notes on ideas for Final Honours Special subject 1971 and 1972; Roneoed typescript ‘Plain Christianity’ by Professor Reverend John Manners, 5 April 1964 (Copyright held by ABC); ms notes re Professor Partridge, The teaching of history and philosophy at Sydney University; photocopied minutes for meeting on [proposed] series of Research Seminars in Asian and Pacific History, 1973, by John Young; typescript ‘Quantitative history – a new way of looking at the past’ (transcribed from ‘The Way it is’, science programme for O.R.T.F., France, broadcast 5UV 17/4/1975)
  • Special subject: Australian History 1970. Topic 6: History as synthesis – Geoffrey Blainey. Handout, questions for consideration, ms notes
  • Special subject: ‘Writing and rewriting Australian history, ca 1970-73.’ Reading lists, some annotated; ms and typed notes, handouts, clippings etc on Manning Clark etc. Also draft lectures for Lecture I (to 1940) and II (1940-74)
  • Short histories of Australia. Typed notes on short histories by Crawford, Pike, Manning Clark etc, with separate folder on Manning Clark
  • Patterns in Australian historical writing (ca 1970): The Whig interpretation of Australian history. Includes ms and typed notes etc
  • Seminar paper 1968 ‘Evidence and contemporary opinions about the peopling of Australia 1890-1915’ / Neville Hicks; with typed notes on the establishment of the Central Methodist Mission in Adelaide


UK Social and Economic History 19th & 20th centuries II

  • Items from arch file containing lecture texts (ms and typescripts) ca 1962-67.


Lecture to Architecture and Town Planning post-graduate students

  • Includes correspondence with the Faculty 1973; copy of paper ‘Planning jubilation’ / Rolf Jensen; handout programme for post-graduate course in Town Planning; handout ‘The planning of towns and cities in Australia: a chronology and some books and articles; ms notes and references; copy of paper ‘Proposal for an urban history of Sydney c. 1920-1950’ / Peter Spearritt (1973)
  • Typed lecture scripts ‘The planning of towns and cities in Australia from the beginning to the 1930s’ and ‘Charles Reade and the early town planning movements in Australia and New Zealand: a case study in social innovation’ 6/9/1973


4.4 Post-graduate seminars/theses

Undated:

  • The Communist Party of Australia and the Radical-Socialist tradition / P.J. Morrison
  • Intercolonial rivalry and transport in the Murray Basin 1850-1900 / Anthony Stimson
  • A strategy for an interdisciplinary approach to the history of Lau / John Young
  • Germany and South Australia / Ian Forbes
  • Salisbury: tradition and change / Margaret Allen
  • A brief summary and appraisal of the Royal Commission on “The Aborigines” 1913-16 / G.K. Jenkin


1973

  • A “Conclusion” to “Political representation in Colonial South Australia”: work in progress seminar / Dean Jaensch
  • Handout Postgraduate/Staff Seminars 3rd term
  • Circular and notes on ‘Supervision and marking of theses: some proposals’


1974

  • Handout
  • Slum housing in Adelaide in the 1930s / Ray Broomhill
  • The South Australian Building Society Movement of the Nineteenth Century / R. Burton
  • South Australian defence in the 19th century: social aspects / MT Shepherd
  • Sir Henry Barwell: an introductory paper / Maryanne McGill
  • The role of the Advanced School for Girls 1879-1908 / Helen Jones
  • An introduction to the Ngarrindjeri / Graham Jenkin
  • Ethnicity: its rebirth, definition and use in research / Roger Harris
  • Social and psychological consequences of unemployment: the long unemployed / Ray Broomhill
  • Polish waves to Australian shores / Roger McL. Harris
  • The founding of the AFA and its importance to the historian / Graham Jenkin
  • South Australian attitudes to the Imperial connection and the threat from overseas: their connection with the introduction of compulsory military raining / MT Shepherd
  • The status and occupations of women in South Australia in the later 19th century: a problems paper / Helen Jones
    The emergence of early political parties in SA / Bruce Edwards
  • ‘Barwellite ‘Liberalism’ / Maryanne McGill
  • Salisbury & Elizabeth / Margaret Allen
  • Institutional treatment of ‘the insane’ in South Australia 1945-1971 / Jill Matthews


1975

  • Handout
  • Some women’s organisations in South Australia in the later nineteenth century / Helen Jones
  • Some Australian verse of the Great War: an annotated collection / Suzanne Brugger
  • Sir Henry Barwell and the 1924 state election / Maryanne McGill
  • Attitudes to lawbreakers South Australia 1836-1939: a sort of social history … / Peter Adamson
  • The post-Taplin period at Raukkan / Graham Jenkin
  • Some discussions of Australian ‘Social Democracy’ 1890-1930 / Helen Bourke
  • Some aspects of relations between the Australian forces and Anglo-Egyptians, Cairo, 1914-1915 / Suzanne Brugger
  • Some methodological problems involved in the extraction of qualitative information concerning everyday life from sources that weren’t meant to reveal it / Jill Matthews

Other
- Newspaper clippings, correspondence with Charles Price of ANU and questionnaire re Miss Grantskalus’s thesis on Latvian immigration 1964

4.5 Writings, research projects

‘Immigrants and innovation, 1880-1939’ [article pub. J. of the Historical Society of SA no 35 (2007)
Note: Paper originally delivered to ANZAAS Conference, written while at the University of Adelaide while working towards a book of the same name (see letter to R.G. Freestone 6/6/1980 in Series 5: Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on Charles Reade)

  • folders with typescript article, plus Barry Jones Eureka address 2005 which cited Tregenza’s address; Notes, ideas and drafts; on Generations; table of overseas and native born males ...; American immigration policy etc
  • Papers extracted from arch file ‘Immigrants, natives and social innovation, 1880-1939’ containing ideas, drafts of text, research notes and correspondence 1969-74 re possible publication and funding
  • Red file: ‘Immigrants and Innovation: Biographies and bibliographies


‘History of Adelaide’ [proposed publication] ca 1970-73

Research notes for a project / projected publication on the history of Adelaide (including suburban histories) undertaken while at The University of Adelaide. Extracted from ring-binders under Tregenza’s headings:

  • Correspondence with the City of Adelaide 1971-73 re commissioning of Tregenza to write a history of the City of Adelaide, and his withdrawal in 1973
  • Correspondence with History Dept and staff 1970-73
  • Bibliographies and references
  • Outlines, ideas
  • Seminar on ‘Tomorrow’s housing” October 1970: correspondence and notes
  • Notes, articles, including suburbs
  • Working party notes, including correspondence ca 1964; typed and ms notes on places and events from sources; WEA class ‘ Writing local history’ notes 1963/64
  • Planning
  • Unsorted notes
  • Parklands
  • Social welfare
  • Local government
  • Suburbs
  • Record sheets for: People, North Adelaide (2 folders)
  • ecord sheets of early Adelaide churches, buildings etc with illustrations and notes compiled ca. 1971, titled at head ‘History of Adelaide’ (2 folders)
  • record sheets for Bibliography of History of Adelaide; notes on sources and Urban History bibliographies; preliminary typed notes on structure of book. Plus an additional folder of material ‘To be filed’
  • Folder of notes on ‘People’ (Laurie Birks, George Hunt, Samuel Corry, Goyder)
  • Copies of sheets from City of Adelaide Heritage Survey, 1982
  • Bulletin March 21 1964 issue cover picture of Adelaide and article by Patricia Rolfe on Adelaide Festival only
  • Record sheets: interviews
  • Transcripts of interviews by John Tregenza for the History of Adelaide project (Mr H.J. Finnis, 23 August 1971, ‘Memories of Adelaide in the eighteen nineties’; Mr H.J. Finnis by John Tregenza, September 1972, Kings Park – re his experiences growing up in Adelaide at the turn of the century; Mr F.L.M. Burden, 23 January 1971 at McLaren Flat; Mr R.J. Miller, 26 January 1971; Mr C.E. Humphries, former Deputy Town Clerk of the City of Adelaide, 9 May 1971; Mr H. Nadebaum, 1973 ‘Salisbury in 1936’)


‘Adelaide Scene’ (Notes and sources for a WEA course on ‘Writing Local History’ and a projected book project with Gerald Fischer 1963-64)

  • correspondence and source materials for a projected publication 1963-64. 6 folders (Correspondence with class members Mrs Cartmel 1964, and draft of circular cancelling meetings; with Audrey Tozer (Holmes) 1964; with Mrs A. Potter 1964, with notes; with Mrs Mary Solomon 1964, with notes; with Mr Till 1964, with notes and photocopied articles. Also enrolment form National Defence League of South Australia 189-; WEA correspondence list, letter Sister Mary Brigid, WEA Bulletins vol. 2 nos. 8 & 9, letter to Colin ? 21/11/1963 re course and projected book)
  • Folder labelled ‘Adelaide Scene’: notes on Adelaide local history including:

- Bulletin article ‘My Adelaide’ by Geoffrey Dutton 23/9/1967Photograph of Adelaide from the Exhibition Building dome ca 1900
- Photograph of Jetty Road Glenelg with steam train ca 1900?
- Photograph of Port Adelaide regatta 1864 with steamer ‘Birksgate’
- Photograph of Odd Fellows Arms Hotel Adelaide
- Photograph Largs Jetty c1898
- View over northwest suburbs (Brompton, Ovingham?) from North Adelaide parklands?
- Sketch of frontage Botanic Hotel
- North Walkerville (Section 477, Hundred of Yatala) Plan of allotments for sale … shewing adjoining streets and roads, to be offered at auction 26 February 1885 by J.H. Parr OVERSIZE – IN MAP CABINET
- Plan ‘Unsold land in North Walkerville’ Ernest Young & Co. [after 1885?] OVERSIZE – IN MAP CABINET

See also Series 4.9: Other. WEA ‘Writing local history’


‘History of Adelaide Children’s Hospital’

  • Correspondence, ideas and notes for proposed history of the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, with recommendation of Marjorie Findlay for the position, 1971


ANZAAS Paper on Education. Notes on education for ANZAAS paper, including private education, libraries 1880-1930, Professor Henderson, budget etc


‘History of South Australia’
In 1979 Tregenza planned a one volume history of SA. These folders contain correspondence, notes and news clippings re SA history in general and the proposed book

  • 2 folders filed alphabetically B-Za, with typed index. Correspondence included under ‘C’
  • Folder of ideas for the book, themes, correspondence, notes, transcriptions etc


4.6 Writing local history

SA Dept of Adult Education & the Yorke Peninsula Adult Education Centre. History and Archives: One day school March 1969– handouts, notes correspondence

Murray Bridge Adult Education Centre. History and Archives: One day school October 1969– handouts, notes correspondence

Launch of the Woodville Historical Society, June 1971 – correspondence, note for speech by Tregenza at opening

See also ‘Adelaide Scene’ files under 4.5 Writing / research projects


4.7 Bibliography / references / sources etc

Lists of theses in History and Politics. “Theses in history and politics prepared in the University of Adelaide and The Flinders University of South Australia” (1975); University of Adelaide History theses to January 1978

List of articles on Australian History / [John Young] (typescript, 26 leaves)

Mitchell Library. Lists of resources from the Manuscript Collection and Picture Collection (1958); Guide for readers; Notes oh photographic copying …

Correspondence with NLA re obtaining copies of the EDA Bagot papers from the Citizens’ League of SA papers for the SA Archives 1972-73

‘Some George Robertson Publications’ ca 1860-1939, typescript 13 p.

Barr Smith Library

  • Microfilms relating to history in the Barr Smith Library, 1972 (typescript, 19 p.); correspondence re readers
  • List of microfilm Australian newspapers which could be bought from Library equipment grant (1974) with notes and correspondence; notes on ‘The Digger’ newspaper; letter re newspapers held in State Library of SA
  • Request for photocopies of Australian political pamphlets for history courses 1967, and establishment of a Rare Book Room
  • List of Barr Smith Library Reference works for Australian politics 1967
  • ‘Miss Andersen’s guides for researchers’ ca 1969-71


General notes, correspondence on research materials and writings on SA and Australian history; list of facsimile editions published by Libraries Board of SA


Archives

  • Typescript notes re the contents and practices of the Australian Archives (SA); notes/photocopies of reports on current archiving practice, development of a National Archives ca 1973 (for projected long-term project on archives?)
  • Correspondence and notes re availability of Union archives etc held at Australian National University 1966
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Historical Possessions reports, correspondence 1976-79 (Tregenza was on Committee investigating the University’s historical possessions)
  • The case for a University of Adelaide Archives. Final report of the Committee on Historical Possessions; Correspondence and reports re need for a University Archivist and records policy at the University of Adelaide 1972-74
  • Report on a visit to the archives of the University of Sydney, the Archives Unit in the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, and the Melbourne University Archives by J.M. Tregenza, reader in History (1972)
  • Correspondence and notes re access to various archives
  • Correspondence re obtaining copies of Royal Commission on Basic Wage 1919-20 (1972)


4.8 Research notes

  • ANZAC Day. G. Serle and Ken Inglis on.Anzac Day. Includes typescript ‘Comments from S.L. Tregenza for Dr L.L. Robson Oct. 1966’ (Reminiscences of military training before and during World War I by a South Australian schoolmaster’) 3 p.; ms notes on the meaning of Gallipoli and Charles Bean; CAB issue vol. 35 no. 12 (April 1965) on The R.S.L.; photographs of Anzac from The Bulletin April 1964; newspaper clippings, extracts from sources
  • The Australian Image. Newspaper cuttings 1958-1975.
  • Biographical. Biographical notes compiled 1958-1977 on Australian colonial identities, artists and authors: MD Conway, John Cahill, Alfred Deakin, VJ Daley, AF Davies, Leon Gellert, AL Gordon, RH Horne, George Higinbotham, WK Hancock, General Smuts, JW Hackett, WM Hugo, Albert Monk, General Monash, William Mcmillan, Rev James Moorhouse, Bernard O’Dowd, EA Petherick, Sir John Quick, WB Randell, HK Rusden, GP Smith, and Murray Smith, with emphasis on Martin Boyd and Marcus Clarke, and DH Lawrence in Australia
  • Henley and Grange history. Notes and correspondence re future student study of the area ca 1966.
  • O’Malley, King. Annotated programme for NIDA production of play ‘The Legend of King O’Malley’ 1970, with review from The Australian and associated hymn sheet handout; also hymn sheet for SA State Theatre production at Scott Theatre 1970; Guide to O’Malley papers at the National Library of Australia
  • Town planning. Newspaper scrapbook labelled Town planning containing mainly Adelaide clippings on planning and heritage issues 1963-86
  • World War I. Salisbury College of Advanced Education notes on Chronology & major campaigns of the Great War; Lecture synopsis on Methodist militant attitudes to the Great War (1975)


4.9 Other

Japan & Australia in the 1960s

  • Correspondence and other papers 1967-1968 re possibility of study leave in in 1969 to teach Australian history and other classes. Correspondents include Haruhiro Fukai (U. of California), Yoshikazu Sakamoto (U. of Tokyo), George Rudé and David Sisson (ANU). Also study leave forms and documentation and newspaper clippings

Transcript of interview of Ralph M. Hague 18 June 1972 by Tregenza regarding Hague's participation in the breaking of the waterside workers’ strike at Port Adelaide 1928.
See also Papers of R.M. Hague.

Report of the Joint Matriculation Committee of the University of Adelaide and the Flinders University of South Australia. June 1968

Commemoration booklets 1964, 1968 & 1969 (1969 annotated with Tregenza’s students underlined)

Cottage Homes redevelopment. Annual reports of Cottage Homes Inc. 1969-71; newspaper articles on redevelopment of Kingston Tce-Stanley St terrace cottages 1972; correspondence re redevelopment for collegiate housing and revisions to historic plaque 1971-72

Notes for lecture on ‘Old Adelaide’. List of slides for talk on Old Adelaide for University Open Day 1968; transparencies; notes and photos on parklands extracted from his proposed ‘History of Adelaide’ publication; correspondence and notes re historical tours and walks conducted by Tregenza ca 1976; notes on Destitute Asylum buildings, Jubilee Oval, Mounted Police barracks etc; ‘negatives for identification from Mr Virgo’s album’

Department of Education

  • Seminar papers: History of the Mid North 1976
  • Radio University VL5UV Touring SA
  • Radio University VL5UV Profiles in History (Tregenza presented Charles Reade) 1974
  • Seminar on ‘The Inner Suburbs – their future (Dec. 1972): handouts, notes, papers etc
  • Notes, resources and handout for a paper for seminar on ‘City living: with special reference to North Adelaide’ 19-21 March 1971


WEA ‘Writing local history’

  • Notes and sources for WEA course on ‘Writing local history’ tutored by Tregenza 1963. Includes index to information collected by the class.
  • File labelled ‘History of Adelaide: Ian Turner’s group’ – includes notes and resources on Prof Cleland, trams, Queen Adelaide, poems by Timothy Short and ‘Anon.’, census, aborigines, water resources, gas company, railways, SA ports and their administration.
    See also Series 4: Writings, research projects etc. Adelaide Scene.


Advice etc to Corporation of Hindmarsh re writing of a history of Hindmarsh 1973-74


University of Adelaide car parking

  • Includes correspondence with the University and the Staff Association, circulars, extracts from minutes and reports etc re parking on campus, and the proposed underground car park 1970-74


Works of Art Fund

  • Circulars  4/5/1965 and August 1970


4.10 Speeches, talks, reviews

  • ‘Professor Pearson goes bush’ ABC talk 5 May 1968 (typescript)
  • Speech made in moving the motion that a Historical Society of South Australia be formed, Art Gallery of SA 19/7/1974
  • Speech at the launching of Ronald Parson’s book ‘Hindmarsh Town’ 1/10/1974, read by John Love
  • Review of John Stanley James’ ‘The Vagabond Papers’ 1969


4.11 Notes on University history

Notes on proposed(?) exhibition on the history of the University of Adelaide 1973-74. Includes lists of photos in State Library of SA; University buildings in chronological order; list of statues, portraits and photographs with locations

Notes on University of Adelaide history.

  • ‘A note on the claim that Adelaide University was the first University in Australia to admit women to degrees’ / John Tregenza 22/2/1973
  • Transcript of a letter from Mrs Rita Rossiter to Mrs Leila Clarke re Adelaide University history 4/8/1971 – re Len (Jim) Rossiter and Roger Rossiter


Elder Hall

  • Photocopied newspaper articles, programme for Elder Hall reopening concert 24/2/1978; Elder Conservatorium feasibility study first interim report April 1973; correspondence between the University and Tregenza, associated notes, reports, articles, submissions etc re the preservation of Elder Hall 1973-78


Innovation in the University of Adelaide 1919-29: notes for a seminar paper / lecture


University of Adelaide in the 1920s: notes, photocopies etc

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