Contributors

Geoffrey Bolton

Geoffrey Bolton is chancellor of Murdoch University, having retired from more than thirty years of teaching history at four Australian universities and the University of London. Western Australia forms the subject of many of his publications, including Alexander Forrest (1958), A Fine Country to Starve In (1972 and 1994), Daphne Street (1997) and (with Jenny Gregory) Claremont: a history (1998). He is currently working on a short history of Western Australia and on a biography of Sir Paul Hasluck. He is general editor of the Oxford History of Australia and was ABC Boyer lecturer in 1992.

Geoffrey Higham

Geoffrey Higham is a land surveyor and mapping consultant in professional life. He was able to apply his professional training to his interest in history to produce ‘An historical gazetteer of Western Australia.’

A lifelong interest in railways has seen him write several monographs, including Robb’s Railway on the line from Fremantle to Guildford, while Geoffrey is researching and writing the history of the railway to Kalgoorlie for his next book.

He has also chronicled his Higham ancestors, and 1994 saw publication of his book on that subject, especially recording their emigration and their life and times in early Fremantle.

Geoffrey is a great-great-grandson of the subject of his paper in this volume.

Ronda Jamieson

Ronda Jamieson retired as director of the J S Battye Library of West Australian History in February 2005 after nearly seven years in the position. She joined the Library and Information Service of Western Australia in 1978 as a part-time oral history officer and later managed its Oral History Unit. Three years as the manager of Preservation Services followed, which brought close involvement with the preservation of the State Library’s heritage collections. Previous experience was in health and with the ABC Radio and Television News Service. With degrees in librarianship and history, Ronda’s doctoral thesis was on storekeeping in isolated rural communities. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 199l to study oral history in New Zealand, the USA and the UK. Among published works is Charles Court: the early years, published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1995, which Ronda edited in association with Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Blainey.

Bob Reece

Bob Reece is Professor of History at Murdoch University and has lived in Fremantle with his family since arriving in Western Australia in February 1978. His book (co-written with Rob Pascoe), A Place of Consequence (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1981) was spurred by a wish to come to terms with a new environment. His other publications have been in Aboriginal history (including Western Australia), Borneo history and Irish convict history. Most recently, he contributed an essay on Western Australian convict historiography to a special convicts issue of Studies in Western Australian History (Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia). He is currently working on the letters of Daisy Bates as a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia.

David Worth

David Worth completed his PhD at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and is presently employed in the Research Unit at the National Native Title Tribunal. His ﬁrst degree was in aeronautical engineering and he has also completed a MBA. For the past 25 years he has worked in various roles for many social change organisations in both Western Australia and the eastem States. He is the Convenor of the Sustainable Transport Coalition and a member of the Intemational Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) and ARNOVA in the US. He has delivered papers ﬂowing from his research at conferences of both these organisations as well as at The Australian Sociology Association. David has been appointed an honorary research associate at Murdoch University and continues his undergraduate teaching there in Sociology.

Dr David Dolan

Dr David Dolan, Professor of Cultural Heritage at Curtin University, was previously the Manager of Collection Development and Research at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and before that was Fine Arts Adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. Since coming to Western Australia in 1995 he has been actively involved in community museum and heritage work, as author of numerous reports, conservation plans and interpretation strategies. As a member of the Heritage Council of WA from 1996 to 2001, a councillor of the National Trust (WA) since 1995 and its Chairman since 2001, he has an inside view of many of Perth’s recent heritage debates and campaigns.

David has supervised and examined Masters and Doctoral theses and has been invited to speak at history, heritage and museum conferences in Australia, England, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the USA. He has also published articles in professional journals in a number of these countries as well as Canada. His latest book, co-authored with Christine Lewis, is The Fairbridge Chapel: Sir Herbert Baker’s Labour of Love (API Network, 2004).

Geoffrey London

Geoffrey London is the Professor of Architecture at The University of Western Australia Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, a position he has held since 1992. At the end of 1996 he completed a nine year period as, ﬁrst, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and then Head of the School. He also holds the position of Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is a past Chair of the Committee of Heads of Architecture Schools of Australasia. At the beginning of 2004 he was appointed to the position of Western Australian Government Architect.

He is a past President of the Western Australian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and a Fellow of the RAIA. His research and writing activity is focused on aspects of twentieth century architecture with a special emphasis on the decades of 1950 and 1960.

Allen Graham

Allen Graham is a long standing resident of Fremantle, having been born and bred in the town and growing up in South Street, Beaconsﬁeld where he attended Beaconsﬁeld Primary School and later Hamilton High School.

Allen has always been very involved in the affairs of Fremantle and was a Councillor with the City from 1985 to 1990 during which time Fremantle experienced the frenetic activity associated with the America’s Cup. (Allen sharing that Council experience with two brothers who have also served as Councillors with the City of Fremantle.)

After leaving high school Allen completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at WAIT (now Curtin University) and has more recently completed a Master of Industrial Relations degree from the University of Western Australia. Today Allen works as a Human Resources Manager.

Allen has always had an interest in the history of Fremantle and has for a long time been researching the history of the Fremantle Hotels between the years 1829 and 1929. He found the material contained in this essay as he pursued that primary objective of publishing a book on the early history of Fremantle’s hotels.

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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 12 February, 2018 and hosted at freotopia.org/fhs/fs/4/contributors.html (it was last updated on 27 November, 2022). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.

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