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Originally presented as a lecture to the Historical Society of SA Nov 1999. As a result there are no references. Very much an introduction.
This essay is a revised version of one prepared for the church, intended for use in a pamphlet about the church.
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 heritage survey of the South East of South Australia, a regional survey carried out as designated in the State Historic Preservation Plan. The study team comprised Ron Danvers, Robert Linn, Hamish Angas, Robert Martin and Michael Brock. The essay appears here by kind permission of the department with minor variations
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, pp. 13-16.
Susan Marsden, A history of Woodville 1977-1987, unpublished typescript, 1987.
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 permission with minor changes.
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.
This essay by Susan Marsden draws together excerpts from her manuscript business history and biography titled, Len Ainsworth: Patriarch of the Pokies, completed in 2008. The author acknowledges and thanks Paul Ainsworth (who commissioned the book) for permission to reproduce this selection from that history.
Originally a public lecture
This essay first appeared in the Newsletter of the Historical Society of SA 1992.
The Evangelical tradition has had a major impact on the contours of religious life in South Australia since its foundation. Anglican and especially Methodist churches led the way. A range of support agencies emerged. Other traditions, notably Angl0-Catholicism, and latterly liberalism and secularism, have all also been significant.
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 of children brought under the control of various acts dealing with destitute children in a variety of circumstances.Further explanation may be found in Brian Dickey, Rations, Residence, Resources: a history of social; welfare in South Australia since 1836, Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1986.
This article originally appeared in Community History 3.1 March 1993, and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
This article originally appeared in Community History 4.4 December 1994, and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
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.
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 Reports for the relevant years. Most of the material on the Port Adelaide bid to join the AFL in 1990 is drawn from articles in the Adelaide News
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 is republished here with minor corrections.
This essay first appeared in bibliofile August 2009 and is reproduced here with the permission of the State Library of South Australia
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 introduced to South Australia, thence to Kangaroo Island, and something of the breeding program of the government apiary formerly based on the Island at Flinders Chase. A closer look at the near outer-urban nature, rather than its rural operation, of much of South Australia's early beekeeping resulted in a paper, 'Bee breeding: Show and Tell in the City', which was presented at the 13th State History Conference of the History Trust of SA in May 2004, Adelaide. Further discoveries about the history of this essential part of South Australia's agricultural makeup are continuing.
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 introduced to South Australia, thence to Kangaroo Island, and something of the breeding program of the government apiary formerly based on the Island at Flinders Chase. A closer look at the near outer-urban nature, rather than its rural operation, of much of South Australia's early beekeeping resulted in a paper, 'Bee breeding: Show and Tell in the City', which was presented at the 13th State History Conference of the History Trust of SA in May 2004, Adelaide. Further discoveries about the history of this essential part of South Australia's agricultural makeup are continuing.
This essay was first presented at the 18th 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 University, March 2001.
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.
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.
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 acknowledges and thanks Australia Post and Lovell Chen for permission to reproduce this history. It has not previously been published.
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.
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 land titles.
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 Environment and Planning. It is republished here with the permsission of the Department with minor amendments.
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 South Australia, Adelaide 2000, pp.222–232.
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 Rima D’Arcy and Margaret Mary Vervoon, for the Corporation of the Town of Hindmarsh and the Heritage Conservation Branch, funded by the National Estate Programme 1983/4. The unpublished report presents a survey of heritage places in the old inner western suburbs of the then Council, including Hindmarsh, Bowden, Brompton and Croydon, and reflects the information available in that period.The author acknowledges and thanks her report co-authors and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for permission to reproduce this history.
this essay was first presented to the Historical Society of SA in 2006
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.
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 Review and Heritage Act Review - implications for the built heritage’, presented by the SA Environmental Law Association and the National Trust of SA. Some of the references to heritage agencies have been updated.The author thanks History SA for permission to reproduce this essay.
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.
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.
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.
This article first appeared in Community History 3.4 december 1993, and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
Winner of the Catherine Mary Gilbert Prize organised by the History SA 2006
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) newsletter, Word of Mouth, Spring 2006.
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, no. 10, Dec 1990, pp.7-21.
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 prepared by Iris Iwanicki that are in the original.
The search for church growth among Christian congregations continues unabated. In Adelaide since 2000 Holy Trinity Adelaide, the oldest parish in the Anglican diocese of Adelaide, has established seven new congregations based on the concept of church planting. This has involved major commitments of cash and people, the latter to migrate to a carefully researched new location (often a local school hall), along with a carefully chosen leader, to commence a new congregation. Sustained by the Holy Trinity trust deed, which provides significant legal support, these new congregations have been operated within a network providing legal, financial and planning support. Each congregation has in turn developed the capacity to engage in further church planting. While successful and continuing, the process has raised challenges for the diocesan polity that may produce difficulties in years to come.
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,
Peter Bell and Susan Marsden, Blackford Reserve assessment, in Kingston Heritage Survey, report to District Council of Kingston, Adelaide, 2008.
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.
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 Herbig family -Johann Friedrich and Caroline- who lived in a big gum tree near Springton in the late 1850s.
In the interview Gordon talks about his childhood memories of everyday life in Hahndorf and his memories of going to primary school. Another topic is the family grocery store in Church Street which closed in 1994. He also talks about the hospital in the Hahndorf Academy and mentions the other uses of the Academy building and that Walter Wotzke saved the Acadmey from demolition. Furthermore, Gordon talks about the Hahndorf Town Band where he started to play the cornet at the age of seven. His father started the band in 1926.
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 – came on The Zebra to South Australia and developed Paechtown near Hahndorf, becoming naturalised in 1847.
Grant Paech married Carol (born in Adelaide 1944 of English descent) in 1966. They started the Beerenberg Farm in the early 1970s. In the interview Grant talks about childhood and teenage memories of life in Hahndorf. One focus of the interview is the dairy farm of Grant’s father. The other focus is the beginning and development of the Beerenberg strawberry farm. The Paechs also talk about changes in Hahndorf and their favourite places to go.
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 married couple moved to Glen Osmond.
Harold’s great great grandparents Johann Joseph and Veronika, together with children came to South Australia on The Zebra. Joseph became a farmer and first settled in Hahndorf, later in Grunthal. He became naturalised in 1841.
The interview with Harold is about his childhood memories of daily life in Hahndorf. He often visited his grandparents in Hahndorf. Another topic is the development of the tourism market in Hahndorf. Returning from Papa New Guinea in the early 1970s, Harold started a tourist business in Hahndorf and helped to establish the Hahndorf Chamber of Commerce and Tourism. In addition, he speaks about saving the Hahndorf Academy from being demolished and about its change of ownership in the 1980s. Being involved in community life he also speaks about the Hahndorf Liedertafel and other traditions in the town.
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 State Library of South Australia for permission to reproduce the photograph.
This article first appeared in Community History 3.2 June 1993 and is republished by permission of History SA.
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.
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 the PHA SA], Adelaide, 1996, pp.1-6.
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, Adelaide 1981. The author acknowledges and thanks her report co-authors John Dallwitz and Ed Noack and the Department of Environment and Heritage for permission to reproduce this history.
First published in "Lucas: an Evangelical History Review, no. 5, 1989, pp.23-28 and reprinted here with minor amendments.
Susan Marsden, Historical introduction, John Dallwitz, Susan Marsden and Lyn Collins, Red Gum: crafts of necessity Jam Factory, Adelaide, 1989, pp 1-5.
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, 2003. Additional material was taken from PhD Thesis, “… So Give Three Cheers For Our Sisters”, the role and status of Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. 2010.)
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 the PHA SA], Adelaide, 1996, pp.275-294, and is republished here with minor variations and without illustrations.
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol 10, 1982, and is reprinted here with minor amendments.
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 initial presentation.
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 initial presentation.
Susan Marsden, South Australian State Historic Preservation Plan: Historical guidelines (part 1), SA Department for the Environment, Adelaide 1980, 1983, reproduced here by permission.
This essay was originally submitted as an assignment for graduate studies undertaken in 1999. It was revised and expanded in 2010-2011.
First published in "Trinity Times", the magazine of Holy Trinity Church Adelaide December 2006
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.
This article first appeared in Community History 3.3 October 1993 and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
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.
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).
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol 13, 1985, pp.111-127.
This essay first appeared in the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no.14, 1986, pp.51-66.
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 team composed of Historical Research Pty Ltd, Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd and Flightpath Architects.
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 light-industrial area of the city that for some time held its own character to be highly distinctive and self-supportive. It was published as Bridget Jolly, Historic South West Corner Adelaide, 2nd edn rev., ed. Bernard O’Neil, Adelaide, Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 2005 (first published 2003), and appears here by permission of the City Council.
Kangaroo Island’s soils were prospected for various minerals from the nineteenth century. One of the more promising finds was of china stone on Dudley Peninsula in 1905. Earlier exploration for tin deposits followed by tourmaline mining in the same region developed into china stone extraction. This soon led to the discovery of fire-clay deposits and optimism from South Australia’s financial backers that a healthy industry to supply Australia with potters’ materials and kiln-fired bricks could be established. The mine was developed south-east of Penneshaw township and west of Antechamber Bay. Kilns operated beside the Penneshaw jetty until 1910 when flooding stopped activity at the mine. Shipping charges from the island to the mainland also contributed to end the initial enterprise, although government interest in the deposits was awakened during 1917; and more recent mining exploration on the site has occurred.
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 Regional Heritage Survey Series: Region 8), SA Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide 1983.
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.
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.
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 Australia and Broken Hill since 1945, Legacy Club of Adelaide, Adelaide, 1997.
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 Heritage Survey Series: Region 5), SA Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide 1985.
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 of South Australia, Adelaide 1991, pp 38-51.
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.
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 here in slightly altered format.
This article summarises the book of the same name commissioned by the Home and published by them in 2005.
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.
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.
This essay was first prepared as part of the exhibition of the Dureya panorama of Adelaide at History SA.
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).
This essay examines the response of a large city church to the challenges posed by the Covid lockdown of March-July 2020. The church leaders moved swiftly and effectively to provide an on-line alternative to normal church services and facilitated the maintenance of small group activities. Some other events were cancelled. The flexibility and clarity of purpose revealed were marked, as was the exercise of centralised control. An addendum deals with the brief lock-down in November-December 2020.
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 Social Worker, vol 2, no.2 Aug 1986 & 3, Oct 1986. Minor format changes have been made in this text.
See: Brian Dickey, with contributions from Elaine Martin & Rod Oxenberry, Rations, Residence, Resources: a history of social welfare in South Australia since 1836, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1986.
2006 (An occasional talk)
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.
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.
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.
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.