Professor Alan Atkinson

Emeritus Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities

Email:

aatkinso@une.edu.au

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Honorary Professor, University of Sydney

Eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian history.

Books & Monographs

The Europeans in Australia, vol. 2, OUP 2004.
The Commonwealth of Speech, Aust. Scholarly Publishing, 2002.
The Europeans in Australia, Vol. 1, OUP, 1997.
Camden: Farm and Village Life in Early New South Wales, OUP, 1988.
(ed., with J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper) High Lean Country:
Land, People and Memory in New England, Allen & Unwin 2006.
(with C. Pound) The Common Task: A History of PLC, Armidale, PLC Council,
1994.
The Muddle-Headed Republic, OUP, 1993.
(ed., with M. Aveling) Australians 1838, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1987.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters (select list)

‘Historians and moral disgust’, in B. Attwood and S. Foster, Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience, National Museum of Australia, 2003, pp.113-19.
‘Honey And Wax: A Review of Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol.4, No.2, October 2002, pp. 20-34.
‘Richard Atkins: The Women’s Judge’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol.1, No.1, April 1999, pp.115-142.
“The Free-Born Englishman Transported: Convict Rights as a Measure of Eighteenth-Century Empire”, Past and Present, No. 144 (August 1994), pp. 88-115.
The First Plans for Governing New South Wales, 1786-87”, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 94 (April 1990), pp. 22-40
“Time, Place and Paternalism: Early Conservative Thinking in New South Wales”, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 90, April 1988, pp. 1‑18.
“Four Patterns of Convict Protest”, Labour History, No. 37, November 1979, pp. 28‑51
"The Burke and Wills Phenomenon: Trial and Error in the Conquest of Australia", in M. Crotty and D.A. Roberts (eds), The Great Mistakes of Australian History, UNSWP, 2006;
"Conquest", in D. Schreuder and S. Ward (eds), The Oxford History of the British Empire: Australia, OUP, 2006;
"Tasmania and the Multiplicity of Nations" (Eldershaw Lecture), Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol. 52 (2005), pp. 189-200.

2003-08 – A.R.C. Professorial Fellowship
1999 – $30,000, Large Grant from the A.R.C. for the project, “A History of the Europeans in Australia up to the Time of the Great War”
1996-98 – (with three others in the then Department of History, UNE) $45,000+ a year for three years, a Large Grant from the A.R.C. for the project, “Patterns of European Settlement in Rural Eastern Australia, 1851-1914”
1991 – $2000 and travel costs from the Australian-American Educational Foundation, as a Fulbright Short-Term Senior Scholar

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