City Project
Resume:
Sponsored by
Anne-Maree
WhitakerP O Box **, Edgecliff NSW, Australia
2027email: ************@*****.***.***** page:
http://joseph-foveaux.angelfire.comABN 63-468-***-***
RESUMÉ
FULL NAME: Anne-Maree Harriet Cox Whitaker
BIRTH AND CITIZENSHIP: born 7 January 1955, Auckland, New
Zealand; Australian citizenRecent employment and
commissionsPublications: books and chaptersPublications: articles
TERTIARY EDUCATION
1989-93, Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University; thesis topic:
United Irishmen in New South Wales 1800-1810
1984-85, Master of Arts, Sydney University, in Australian Local
History; thesis topic: Darling Point
1976-77, Master of Arts, University of East Anglia, U.K., in
Literature and politics in twentieth century Europe; thesis topic:
Relations between Maxim Gorky and Romain Rolland
1972-75, Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
majoring in Russian and French
POSITIONS AND MEMBERSHIPSPresident, Royal Australian Historical Society, 2012-2013, Councillor 1995-2009 and 2011-2014, Treasurer 2001-2002, Vice-President 2002-2003, Senior Vice-President 2003-2009, 2012, Journal Book Review Editor 2005+, Journal co-editor 2011+C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow, State Library of NSW, 2011-12Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical SocietyFellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK)National Trust Heritage Award winner, Interpretation and Presentation Corporate/Government category, 'Sydney Parks - signage and history website', 2010Member, History Advisory Panel, NSW Heritage Council, 2004-2010Councillor, Australian Catholic Historical Society, 1995-2005Management Committee member, Professional Historians Association (NSW), 2002-2003Member, Community Advisory Committee, State Records NSW 2000-2002Co-convener, 1798 Irish Rebellion Conference, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, July 1997Co-convener, The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Conference, Macquarie University, September 1996Member of Australian Garden History Society, Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, Society of Australian Genealogists, Professional Historians Association (NSW), National Trust (NSW)
RECENT EMPLOYMENT AND
COMMISSIONS
July 2012: for Kingsclear Books: writing Pictorial History Kings Cross
February-March 2012: for Campbelltown City council: significance assessment of local studies collection
December 2011: for Sydney City Council: research on 14 park sites
October 2011-May 2012: for Parramatta City Council: Parramatta Civic History project
March 2011: for Commonwealth Bank: compiling Australian Icons centenary timeline
February 2011: for Campbelltown City Council: historical research on origins of Minto
December 2010-February 2011: for Catholic Institute of Sydney: significance assessment of Veech Library special collections
July-August 2010: for AHMS: historical research on CSIRO radiophysics sites at Marsfield, Parkes, Culgoora and Mopra
July 2010: for Occasional Collective: historical research on Sydney public statues
June-August 2010: for Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority: historical research for Cumberland Street south interpretation
February 2010: for AHMS: historical research on Kapooka Army Base, Wagga Wagga NSW
October 2009: for AHMS: historical research on New Brighton Golf Course site, Moorebank NSW
August 2009: for AHMS: history of 78-90 Old Canterbury Road, Lewisham NSW
August 2009: for AHMS: history of Edmondson Park water supply pipeline route (Denham Court NSW)
July 2009: for Kingsclear Books: writing captions for Pictorial History Liverpool
May 2008-March 2009: for Sydney City Council: research and writing book on city parks
January-March 2008: for Manidis Roberts / AHMS: thematic history of Queensland Hunter Gas Pipeline route
May-August 2007: for Sydney City Council: research on history of city parks for website pages and park signage, which won a
September 2006-May 2007: for Erskineville Public School Parents and Citizens' Association: research on history of Erskineville Public School
August-December 2006: for St Vincent's Hospital: research and writing sesquicentenary pictorial history
March-August 2006: for Kingsclear Books: pictorial history of Marrickville
September-October 2005: for Kurrajong Holdings: archaeological assessment of 'Norwood', 209 Great Western Highway, Blackheath (with S Lavelle)
March-August 2005: for Kingsclear Books: history of Appin NSW
March-September 2005: for Ryde City Council: war memorial project
October-November 2004: for Roads and Traffic Authority: historical assessment of location of Seven Hills
March-August 2004: for Lend Lease: historical assessment of evidence regarding the site of the Battle of Vinegar Hill
December 2003: for private client: history of Parramall site, George Street, Parramatta (with A Bickford)
December 2003: for private client: history of St Margaret's East development site, Surry Hills (with A Bickford)
November 2003: for Parramatta City Council: heritage assessment of
Parramatta War Memorial Swimming Centre (with P Hubert)
October 2003: for Australian Museum: archaeological assessment of
7 Yurong Street, East Sydney (with S Lavelle)
September 2003: for NSW Roads and Traffic Authority:
archaeological assessment of 89 Great Western Highway, Leura (with S
Lavelle)
June 2003: for National Parks and Wildlife Service: search for
historical material on Gan Gan Army Camp, Port Stephens, NSW
July-August 2002: for Bobby Goldsmith Foundation: research project
on biography of Bobby Goldsmith and establishment of Foundation
June-August 2002: for NSW Roads and Traffic Authority: report on
historic sandstone well, Old Bowenfels, NSW, with S Lavelle and R
Paskin
May-August 2002 : for Kingsclear Books / South Sydney City
Council: commissioned author of Pictorial History of South
Sydney
2011-12 (ongoing): for various private clients: manuscript
appraisal, editing, historical research, genealogical research, bibliography
compilation
2000-2007: for Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley, Macquarie
University: part-time research assistant in 20th century media
history
PUBLICATIONS
Books and chapters
Pictorial History: Kings Cross, Kingsclear Books, Sydney, 2012 (forthcoming)
Shaping a City: 150 years of Parramatta City Council, Parramatta City Council, 2012 [ISBN 978**********]
'William Bligh' in David Clune and Ken Turner (eds), The Governors of NSW, Federation Press, Sydney, 2009 [ISBN 978**********]
St Vincent's Hospital 1857-2007: 150 years of charity, care and compassion, Kingsclear Books, Sydney, 2007 [ISBN 978**********]
Pictorial History: Marrickville, Kingsclear Books, Sydney, 2006 [ISBN 0 908272 87 1]
Appin: the story of a Macquarie town, Kingsclear Books,
Sydney, December 2005 [ISBN 0 908272 84 7]
Pictorial History of South Sydney, Kingsclear Books,
Sydney, September 2002 [ISBN 0 908272 69 3]
'Biographical Notes on the Fellows of the RAHS', in Alfred James
(ed.), Much Writing, Many Opinions: the making of the Royal
Australian Historical Society 1901 to 2001, Sydney, May 2001
[ISSN 0035-8762]
Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early NSW,
University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, May 2000 [ISBN 0
86840 555 8]
Col Graham, Perry McIntyre and Anne-Maree Whitaker (eds), The
Voyage of the Ship Friendship from Cork to Botany Bay, 1799-1800,
PR Ireland, Sydney, February 2000 [ISBN 0 646 38906 8]
(ed.), Distracted Settlement: New South Wales after Bligh from
the journal of Lieutenant James Finucane, 1808-1810, Miegunyah
Press, Melbourne, July 1998 [ISBN 0 522 84795 1]
'Veterans of the Irish War of Independence in Australia', in
Richard Davis, Jennifer Livett, Anne-Maree Whitaker and Peter Moore
(eds), Irish-Australian Studies: Proceedings of the Eighth
Irish-Australian Conference, Crossing Press, Sydney, 1996 (pp
413-420) [ISBN 0 9586713 2 X]
'The Convict Priests: Irish Catholicism in early colonial New
South Wales', in Patrick O'Sullivan (ed.), The Irish Worldwide,
vol 5, Religion and Identity, Leicester University Press, London,
1996 (pp 25-42) [ISBN 0 7185 1424 6]
Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in New South Wales
1800-1810, Crossing Press, Sydney, 1994 [ISBN 0 646 17591
9]
'Wall, Colman John Michael Francis Joseph Aloysius', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 18, 2012 (forthcoming)
'Catholic vital records in NSW before 1856', Descent, vol 41, pt 2, June 2011 (pp 78-84)
'A Short Story: how new electronic resources solved the mystery of Governor Bligh and Captain Short', Descent, vol 39, pt 3, Sept 2009 (pp 104-108)
'Rogue History?', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol 11, 2009 (pp 233-236)
'Goldsmith, Robert Bernard', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 17, 2007 (p 445)
'Arthur and Ethel Foster', History, no 87, March 2006 (pp 6-8)
'Whose Fault is the Cahill Expressway?', History, no 83, March 2005 (pp 4-6)
'Mrs Paterson's Keepsakes: the provenance of some significant colonial documents and paintings', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 90, pt 2, Dec 2004 (pp 136-151)
'From Norfolk Island to Foveaux Strait: Joseph Foveaux's role in
the expansion of whaling and sealing in early nineteenth century
Australasia', The Great Circle: journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, vol 26, no 1, 2004 (pp 51-59)
'Irish Republican Support Activities in Sydney, Australia
1969-1994', Australian Journal of Irish Studies, vol 3, 2003 (pp 79-90)
'"Primitive construction" or "Sound and stable"?: Joseph Foveaux's
Public Buildings', History, no 75, March 2003 (pp 4-6)
'Captain Bull of Bull's Camp', The Explorers' Tree: Magazine of
the Blue Mountains Family History Society, no 59, May 2002 (pp
9-12)
'Wedgwood, Darwin and the Sydney Harbour Bridge', History,
no 71, March 2002 (pp 4-5)
'Lexicography as Cultural Genocide: the Irish influence on the
Australian language', Australian Celtic Journal, vol 6,
1998-99 [2001]
'Swords to Ploughshares? The 1798 Irish Rebels in New South
Wales', co-published in Labour History (Australia, no 75, pp
9-21) and Saothar (Journal of the Irish Labour History
Society, no 23, pp 13-22), both 1998
'Lay Carmelites in Botany Bay', Journal of the Australian
Catholic Historical Society, vol 19, 1998 (pp 9-11)
'King of the Road', History, no 54, December 1997 (pp
2-3)
'Joseph Foveaux: "a Gentleman of High Reputation"', Journal of
the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 83, pt 1, June 1997 (pp
17-30)
'The Botany Bay Song', History, no 50, December 1996 (p
8)
'Joseph Foveaux: the Genealogy of Patronage', Descent, vol
26, no 3, September 1996 (pp 121-22)
'"Ecce Homo": William Davis, James Dempsey and Father Jeremiah
O'Flynn', Sixth Gavin Cashman Memorial Lecture, Journal of the
Australian Catholic Historical Society, vol 17, 1996 (pp
29-43)
'What's in a Name? Strawberry Hills', History, no 46, April
1996 (p 16)
'"Primary" evidence?', History, no 42, August 1995 (pp
14-15)
'James Meehan - nearly Australia's third Surveyor-General',
Descent, vol 24, no 2, June 1994 (pp 66-70)
'The Convicts who conquered the Blue Mountains', Descent,
vol 23, no 1, March 1993 (pp 2-5)
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
'It s a Long Way from Tipperary: Monumental grandeur in the Australian rural landscape', Association for Gravestone Studies Conference, 19-24 June 2012, Monmouth University, West Long Arm, New Jersey, USA
'Re-imagining Cox s Road', International Conference on Tourism, Roads and Cultural Itineraries: Meaning, Memory and Development, 13-15 June 2012, Qu bec, Canada
'William Cox and the convicts who laboured for their liberty', Blue Mountains Crossing conference, Lithgow NSW, May 2011; AGM of Blue Mountains Association of Cultural Heritage Organisations, March 2012
'The Harp Restrung: Ireland 1798 to Sydney 1804', Shamrock in the Bush conference, Galong NSW, August 2010
'The Minister for Murder', Randwick and District Historical Society, May 2010; and Royal Australian Historical Society, History Week lecture, September 2009
'Distracted Settlement: Sydney as Macquarie found it in 1810', Makings of the City Conference, Penrith, March 2010
'Rum Rebellion', Blue Mountains Historical Society, August 2008; Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, 2008
'Australia s 1798 Irish Memorial', Association for Gravestone Studies Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 2008
'St Vincent's Hospital Sydney 150 Years', Royal Australian Historical Society, April 2008
'Marrickville: Cows, Clay and Cultural Diversity', Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, 2007
'Newtown: Sydney's first Western suburb', Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, 2007
'The Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804', Waverley Historical Society, July 2005; Combined Blacktown Historical Societies, November 2003; Hawkesbury Historical Society, August 1997; and Hills District Historical Society, March 1997
'Lieutenant Governor Joseph Foveaux', Hills District Historical Society, May 2005; C.S. Malcolm Lecture, Strathfield District Historical Society, September 1998; and Eric Dickenson Lecture, Bankstown District Historical Society, May 1998
'The 1798 Rebellion Exported: Sydney's Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804', 13th Irish-Australian Conference, University of Melbourne, September-October 2004
'Sydney's Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1804' and 'The Amazing Swimming Cavill Family', Royal Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, 2004
'Unrest and disturbance in the Colony: rebels, ratbags and republicans', Fellowship of First Fleeters Conference, Penrith, January 2004
'Irish Transportation Records', Lost in Ireland Seminar, Society of Australian Genealogists, North Sydney, November 2003
'Pictorial History of South Sydney: northern districts' and
'Pictorial History of South Sydney: southern districts', Royal
Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, 2003
'A Black Day: famous Australian bushfires' and 'Crossing the Line:
early 19th century shipboard diaries', Royal Australian Historical
Society, Australia Day, 2002
'"A Passion for History": Fellows of the Royal Australian
Historical Society', Royal Australian Historical Society Annual
Conference, Sydney University, November 2001
'Introducing William Redfern', South Sydney City Council, Redfern
Town Hall, September 2001; and Kepos Street Activity Centre, Redfern,
April 2003
'Old Price Riots' and 'Public Hanging', Royal Australian
Historical Society, Australia Day, January 2001
'Joseph Foveaux', Library Society of NSW, December 2000
'Background to the 1798 Rebellion and the Australian Connections
with the United Irishmen', Friendship/Minerva Bicentenary
Get-together, Society of Australian Genealogists, February 2000
'Jobs for the Boys', Society of Australian Genealogists, January
2000
'Jobs for the Boys' and 'Political Cartoons 200 Years Ago', Royal
Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, January 2000
'Constitutional Crisis: NSW in 1799', On the Threshold Symposium,
Royal Australian Historical Society, July 1999
'Jonathan Burke Hugo, King of Van Diemen's Land' and 'John Grant:
Poet, Radical and Stalker', Royal Australian Historical Society,
Australia Day, January 1999
'The Revolution in its Context', Revolution in Early Australian
History? Symposium, Macquarie University/Royal Australian Historical
Society, November 1998
'Joseph Foveaux and Surry Hills', South Sydney History and
Heritage Society, September 1998
'Lieutenant Governor Joseph Foveaux and Public Works 1793-1809',
Annual Lecture, Horbury Hunt Club, August 1998
'Writing General History: Alan Atkinson's The Europeans in
Australia', Australian Historical Association Conference, Sydney
University, July 1998
'The Ruin of the Colony?: the Irish in 1804', James Jervis
Lecture, Parramatta Historical Society, May 1998
'The United Irishmen in New South Wales', Remember '98 Conference, University of Western Sydney, May 1998
1798 Bicentennial Oration, Irish National Association, Waverley
Cemetery, April 1998
'Demonising the Convict Era' and 'Criminal Conversation', Royal
Australian Historical Society, Australia Day, January 1998
'United Irishmen in New South Wales', Shamrock in the City
Conference, Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney, November
1997
'Joseph Foveaux: Tyrant or Visionary?', Royal Australian
Historical Society/WEA, Sydney, August 1997
'Swords or Ploughshares? The United Irishmen in Australia', Spirit
of '98 Conference, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, July 1997
'1798 Rebellion in Ireland', WEA, Sydney, one day course, July
1997
'Holland House meets Botany Bay', Australian Identities
Conference, Dublin, July 1996
'Yass in 1850', Pride of Erin Conference, Yass, April 1996
'"The True Bastille": Challenges to British authority in the
"slave state" of New South Wales, 1800-1810', Royal Australian
Historical Society/WEA, Sydney, March 1996
'Veterans of the Irish War of Independence in Australia', Aisling
Society, Sydney, April 1995
'Rebels, Ratbags and Republicans: Political Debate in New South
Wales 1800-1810', Australian Historical Association Conference,
Perth, September 1994
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, volume 1, The
Beginning, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997
Barrett, Max, King of Galong Castle: the Story of Ned Ryan,
1786-1871, publ author, Canberra, rev ed 2000, p 182
Birmingham, John, Leviathan: the Unauthorised Biography of
Sydney, Random House, Sydney, 1999, np
Christian, Glynn, Fragile Paradise, Doubleday, Sydney,
1999, p 438
Coogan, Tim Pat, Wherever Green is Worn: the Story of the Irish
Diaspora, Arrow Books, London, 2002, p xxi
Cunningham, Anne, The Rome Connection: Australia, Ireland and
the Empire, 1865 - 1885, Crossing Press, Sydney, 2003
Currey, John, David Collins, a Colonial Life, Melbourne
University Press, Melbourne, 2000, p xii
Duffy, Michael, Man of Honour: John Macarthur, Pan
Macmillan, Sydney, 2003, pp 347, 361
Foy, R H, Remembering all the Orrs: the story of the Orr
families of Antrim and their involvement in the 1798 Rebellion,
Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 1999, pp viii-ix
Fulton, Pamela Jeanne, The Minerva Journal of John Washington
Price: a Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, NSW, 1798-1800,
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, p xviii
Griffen-Foley, Bridget, The House of Packer: the Making of a
Media Empire, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, p viii
Griffen-Foley, Bridget, Sir Frank Packer: the Young Master,
HarperCollins, Sydney, 2000, p x
Keneally, Thomas, The Great Shame: a Story of the Irish in the
Old World and the New, Random House, Sydney, 1998, p 639
Oldfield, Audrey, The Great Republic of the Southern Seas:
Republicans in nineteenth-century Australia, Hale and Iremonger,
Sydney, 1999, p 6
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