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THE AUSTRALIAN. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Staff:

Head of Department: Second Professor:

Reader:

Visiting Lecturer~

Senior Lecturer:

Lecturers:

Senior Tutor:

Tutor:

Research 1..ssistant:

Part-time Tutors:

Introduction:

SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF HIS'l10RY

A.i"'OOJAL REPORT 1965

Professor C .M.H.Clark, M.A . (Mel b.) K. S. Inglis, M.A. (Melb.), D.Phil. (Oxon.)

D. W. A. Baker, M.A. (Mel b.)

D. K. Fieldhouse, M.A. (Oxon.)

E. C. Fry, B.A., B.Ec., Dip.Ed. (Syd.), Ph.D.

G.F. Fairbairn, B.il. (Cantab.) B.E.Kent, B.A. (Melb. and Oxon.), Ph.D. G.R. Bartlett, B.A. (Oxon.) , Ph.D. D.F.C. Johanson, B.A. (Melb. and Oxon.)

Barbara Penny, M.A. (Melb.)

Judith A. Jones, B.~., Dip.Sec.Stud. (Melb.)

Rima Rathausky, B.~. (Melb.)

Assoc. Prof. Masterman, Father T. Hegarty, J. Molony, B. Dicky, Miss Silverman Miss P. Vlhi te Mrs. Richter Mrs. Young li. . Davidson

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In 1965 our enrolments were increased from 537 as in 1964 to 716, which necessitated calling on part-time tutors to assist us in conducting the extra classes, and in returning essays to students at individual sessions of discussion. It ·is anticipated that there will be a further increase in the number of enrolments in 1966.

This year the History Department included Medieval European History in its syllabus for the first time. Early in the year Professor R. ~ . Southern of All Saints College, Oxford, a recognised norld authority on Medieval History, visited this university and gave several lectures for us. His valuable advice and assistance helped us to launch this new subject, and we were most grateful to him.

We were also fortunate in having Mr. D. Fieldhouse from Nuffield College, Oxford, join the staff for twelve months as a Visiting Lecturer. He took over the subject of Modern History A, for which 151 students had enrolled, and his work was most appreciated.

During the year applications were called for a second Chair of History and Professor ~. S. Inglis was duly appointed. Mr. D.W.A. Baker was appointed Reader, filling the vacancy resulting from Professor Inglis' ·promotion.

Teaching and Syllabus:

The following courses were taught in 1965:

Firs t year:

Second & Third yearsg

Fourth year:

2.

Ancient History British History Modern History A

lunerican History Australian History Indian History Medieval European History Modern History B

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Renaissance and Reformation History

Historiography

During 1965 we have been supervising 3 Ph.D. students 9 and 23 M,~ . students . There were also 9 candidates preparing for the M.l . Qualifying course .

Throughout the year we held weekly work- in- progress seminars to which members of the History Department of the Institute attended and took part in the discussions following the reading of the paper . Those seminars and discussions proved to be of valuable assistance to the student and the practice will be resumed nezt year .

Enrolments and Examinationsg Total Sat Passed senrolled for exam Subject

American History 79 73 61 Ancient History 91 70 44 Australian History 81 75 60 British History 145 129 106 Indian History 41 31 28 Medieval European History 14 7 5 Modern History A 151 105 75 Modern History B 86 70 61 Renaissance & Reformation History 18 14 13 Historiography 10 7 7

Staff movements:

In September Professor Clark represented the A. N. U. at the Eleventh Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions which was held in California. He was in the United States a week and on his return to Australia broke his journey in New Zealand where he did a week ' s lecturing at the University of Auckland.

Dr . B.E. Kent went on six months' sabbatical leave in July . His lectures were taken by Mr . D. F.C . Johanson, who was appointed to the staff at the beginning of the year as Lecturer in Renaissance and Reformation History.

Roaoo.r cht

Professor Clark continues his writing of the second volume of the History of Australia . Other fields of r-esearch were still being carried out by :

Professor Inglis:

Mr . Baker:

Dr . Fry:

Mr . Fairbairn:

Dr . Kent:

Mrs. Penny:

The Social History of Religion in Australia~ and The Anzac Tradition .

The Li£e of John Dunmore Lang

Australian Labour History

Gandhi 9 Con~ess and Government in 1921; "Feudalism in India; the Mu.ghal character .

German financial history of the 1920 1 s . [Dr . Kent is at present continuing his research in Germany]

Australia and the Age of Empire .

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Publicationsg

Inglis, K. S.

Baker , D. TI. ! ••

Fry, E.C.

Fairbairn, G.F.

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1 The Anzac Tradition 1 , :Mean.i in Quart er ly, 19 65 , 1 •

'Religious Behaviour' . Chapter in Davies, A.F. and Encel 9 S. (eds.), J.ustralian Society g a Sociological Introduction.

"The Squatting Age in Australia" in Business 1\.rchives and History, August, 1965.

'Parliamentary Papers of South Australia, 1856-1900 1•

Labour History, VII, 45-55, November 1964.

'i'om Barker and the I.Vl.W., Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra, 1965.

'Parliamentary Papers of Queensland, 1860-1900 1 ,

Labour History, VIII, 37-45, May 1965.

'The Historical Use of Parliamentary Papers'. In Government Documents in Australia, Joint Library Committee of the Parliament of Nev1 South Wales, 2-6, Sydney, 1965.

Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare in Current Affairs Bulletin~ Vol.35, Number 10, March 29th, 1965.

Vietnamese Culture and History, Melbourne University Magazine 19 65.

A Forgotten Minority, The "Bulletin", 19th June, 1965.