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Voices from the West End
Longley, Paul Arthur & Geoffrey Bolton 2012, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum.
Chapters
Adams, Simon 2012, 'Capital punishment and the spectacle of death in colonial Fremantle', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum': 86-105.
Hasluck, E.M. 2012, 'Fremantle', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 56-63; from Life Story and Recollections: The Early Years 1872-1896.
Hutchisonauthors/hutchison.html, David 2012, '"Bloody Sunday" revisited', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 210-249.
Kearns, Barbara, Jim Macbeth & John Selwood 2012, 'From meeting place to eating place: tourism goes public in the West End of Fremantle', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 250-281.
McKeough, Michelle 2012, 'A twist in the turn of the century: the bubonic plague in Fremantle, 1900', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum': 106-123.
May, Sally Rita 2012, 'The multicultural, social and economic contribution of Fremantle's fishing industry, 1829-1960s', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 150-179.
Peters, Nonja 2012, 'Victoria Quay: arrivals and departures, 1906-1980', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 180-209.
Reece, Bob 2012, 'Glimpses of Fremantle 1829-1929', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 20-55.
Strong, Rowan 2012, 'Religious lives in Fremantle', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum: 64-85.
Tull, Malcolm 2012, 'Fremantle: from commercial port to recreational centre', in Paul Arthur Longley & Geoffrey Bolton, Voices from the West End: Stories, People and Events that Shaped Fremantle, WA Museum': 124-149.
Contributors
Bob Reece came to Fremantle in January 1978 to teach at Murdoch University, where he is now emeritus professor in history. In 1982 he and his colleague, Rob Pascoe, produced a pictorial history of Fremantle entitled A Place of Consequence as their way of putting roots down in their adopted city. Bob subsequently became a founding member of the Fremantle History Society, of which he is now vice-president, and in recent years has published papers in its journal, Fremantle Studies, on such topics as Fremantle’s first newspaper, The Herald (1867-1886), and its first historian, J. K. Hitchcock. He is curently working on (among other things) the life of Henry Willey Reveley, architect of Fremantle’s iconic Round House gaol.
John Selwood is a Senior Scholar at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where he has frequendy worked with colleagues, as well as at Curtin University and Murdoch University. His research has focused on historical geography, ranging through urban morphology and recreation, the sex trade, the role of transnational corporations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, geographies of setdement in Western Canada and Australia, and the development of tourism, especially the evolution and expansion of holiday communities.
Rowan Strong is Associate Professor of Church History in the Theology Department at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Specialising in the colonial history of the British Empire, he has written three books, published by Oxford University Press, Alexander Forbes of Brechin (1817-1875): The First Tractarian Bishop (1995); Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society (2002); and Anglicanism and the British Empire c.1700-1850 (2007). A further book is on the history of chaplains in the Royal Australian Navy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Malcolm Tull is Dean of the Murdoch Business School at Murdoch University, Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association and a Life Member of the Australian Association for Maritime History. His publications include A Community Enterprise: The History of the Port of Fremantle (1997), and (co-edited) Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacifc Experience (2008). He was part of the editorial team for Oxford University Press’s Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (2007), was an editor of the International Journal of Maritime History from 1999-2008, and is the Director of the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) in Asia project.
Acknowledgements
This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project led by Geoffrey Bolton at Murdoch University in collaboration with Curtin University, the University of None Dame Australia and the University of Western Australia. Jill Strong initiated the project at Murdoch University's Centre for Social and Community Research. Paul Arthur coordinated the ARC funding application and was the project's research director from 2004 to 2007. Partner organisations, the Western Australian Museum - Maritime, Fremantle Ports, the City of Fremantle, the Fremantle Historical Society, the Fremantle Society, the Archdiocese of Perth, the Basilica of St. Patrick, and Fremantle Wesley Parish Mission, generously supported the project as part of their commitment to enhancing understanding of Fremantle’s past They have each played a role in directly shaping the port city's extraordinarily colourful history.
The ‘Fremantle Stories’ website, created by Brogan Bunt in collaboration with local artists, was a further product of the project This digital work presented personal records and reflections evoking Fremantle past and present, and was exhibited as part of The Yellow Vest Syndrome: Recent West Australian Art at Fremantle Arts Centre, January-March 2009.
Over the length of years during which this project has been brought to maturity many individuals have made significant contributions. We thank them one and all most warmly and hope that they will be pleased with the ultimate product. Special thanks are due to Murdoch University and to the Western Australian Museum for financial and other practical support that enabled the publication of this book.
Extracts from ‘Life Story and Recollections — The Early Years: 1872-1896,’by E. M Hasluck, are reproduced with the kind permission of Nicholas and Sally-Anne Hasluck, who hold the copyright.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 September, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/books/voices.html (it was last updated on 20 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.