About Us
Published since 1961, Melbourne Historical Journal is a refereed journal for the publication of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand postgraduate work in history. It is open to new approaches and aims to present original postgraduate work to a wide and responsive readership.
Melbourne Historical Journal is published annually in November. The journal features themed articles by prominent, established historians, and presents new and exciting research by talented, emerging historians.
The journal is proud to be a collective organisation. History postgraduates at the University of Melbourne have worked together as editors of Melbourne Historical Journal for over forty years. The members of the 2008 editorial collective are Maya Chanthaphavong, Liam Connell, Ken Courtis, Fiona Davis, Claudia Guli, Brett Holman, Alex MacCallum, Crystal McKinnon, Mark Pendleton, Bec Sanders, and Chris Soeterboek.
Contents of 2007 Edition (Vol. 35)
Features:
History and the Melbourne Model: An Interview with Professor Peter McPhee
Should Melbourne History ‘dreamlarge’?
By David Philips
Articles
Imagining the Northern Plains of Victoria: The Role of Geographic Exploration
By Robyn Ballinger
An Encounter with the White World of Wimbledon: Evonne Goolagong and
Representations of Race and Gender in Australia
By Karen Fox
Looking Back to Look Forward: The Past in Australian Queer
Anti-Capitalism, 1999–2002
By Mark Pendleton
Disrupting Assimilation: Soldiers, Missionaries, and Aboriginal People in
Arnhem Land During World War II
By Noah Riseman