Contributors

Professor Reg Appleyard

Reg Appleyard AM is Hon Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Economic History at UWA. He holds a PhD degree from Duke University (USA) and prior to his appointment at UWA in 1967 was a Senior Fellow in Demography at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has written many books and articles on international migration and on Western Australia’s economic history. He has also served as consultant/advisor to many national and international committees. His publications include British Emigration to Australia (1964), The Beginning: European Discovery and Early Settlement of Western Australia (jointly, 1979), International Migration: Challenge for the Nineties (1991) and Greek Pioneers in Western Australia (jointly, 2002).

Kris Bizzaca

Kris Bizzaca is a professional historian and has worked as a consultant in Western Australia’s heritage industry since 1998. Her thesis for her Master of Arts degree in Public History was on the development of the heritage movement in Fremantle. She takes an active role in Western Australia’s history and heritage community and this is reflected in the positions she has had on various not-for-proﬁt organisations. This includes holding the position of the President of the Professional Historians Association (WA) (2003 - 2007; 2010 - 2012), currently chairing an $849,000 project which will digitise approximately 7500 hours of oral history tape recordings held in the Battye Library, and being a member of the steering committee for Fighting For Fremantle: The Fremantle Society Story.

Kris has been the City of Fremantle’s representative on the Library Board of Western Australia since 2007 and has recently been appointed a Director of the State Library of WA Foundation.

William Bowe

William Bowe is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Western Australia and the publisher of the electoral studies blog The Poll Bludger.

Charles Dortch and Joe Dortch

The co-authors arrived in Western Australia as immigrants in 1970. Charlie had just completed four years of basic archaeological training at the aptly named Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Eighteen years later, Joe studied archaeology at the University of Southampton - selected in part for its proximity to France - taking a BA Hons in 1991. In 2000, they both obtained doctorates from the University of Western Australia.

From 1970 to 2004, Charlie was Curator, Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum, Perth. In his career thus far, Joe has held research fellowships at the Universities of Sydney (2002-2005) and Western Australia (2007-2009). He presently directs a research unit at UWA, Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting.

Charlie and Joe have worked together in excavations and other ﬁeld studies at the cave of Devil’s Lair and other sites in the South-west of WA, including the submerged cultural landscape at Lake Jasper and the regionally unique Milleyannup rock engraving art site. Working separately from each other, each has carried out ﬁeld studies in other regions of WA, including the Murchison and Gascoyne districts, the Pilbara and the Kimberleys. The present work is the sixth published paper in which they have been co-authors.

Martin Drum

Dr Martin Drum is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. Dr Drum researches in Australian Politics and Public Policy. He thinks our political systems works better when people take an interest in what our elected representatives and public officers do and how they make their decisions. He takes a keen interest in Fremantle politics at a local, state and Federal level.

Steve Errington

Dr Steve Errington taught chemistry at WAIT/Curtin University for 41 years before retiring as Head of Department in 2009. He has been a member of the Royal WA Historical Society since 1963, a member of its council since 2006 and its representative of the Council of the National Trust WA since 2008. He has published a centenary history of the WA Suburban Turf Cricket Association and his history of the early years of the South Fremantle Football Club is due for release in 2013.

Madison Lloyd-Jones

Madison Lloyd-Jones is a PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame Australia under the supervision of Associate Professors Deborah Gare and Peter Dean. Her PhD explores the experiences of Fremantle women on the homefront during World War II and, in particular, the impact made by the arrival of American servicemen from 1942 to 1945. Some of her earliest findings are presented in this article.

While studying at Notre Dame, Madison has also had the opportunity to tutor and lecture in a number of history and politics units including ‘Australia and the World Wars’ and was a research assistant for Deborah Gare’s current undertaking, ‘a history of women in Fremantle’. In 2011 Madison was invited to join the committee of the Fremantle History Society and continues to be an active member.

Andrew Pittaway

Andrew Pittaway is the Corporate Archivist for Fremantle Council and is in the process of publishing a book on Fremantle people in the First World War. He is a graduate of Curtin University, having a completed a double major in Cultural Heritage and History, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Records/Archives Management. Andrew was schooled at Christian Brothers College Fremantle, which was where he developed a love of history.

He is a long term volunteer at the Army Museum of WA and a member of several Great War history organizations such as the Military Historical Society of Australia, The Western Front Association and Friends and Families of the First AIF and has had several articles published in the journals of these societies. In 2011 he was awarded the Military History Society of Australia’s inaugural prize for the best new writer.

Bob Reece

Bob Reece is Emeritus Professor of History at Murdoch University and a committee member of both the Fremantle History Society and the Fremantle Society. In addition to his pictorial history of Fremantle, A Place of Consequence (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1982) and a report to Fremantle City Council on the heritage signiﬁcance of the Short Street precinct, he has given papers in recent years on Fremantle’s ﬁrst historian, J.K. Hitchcock, and Fremantle’s cultural life before the gold rushes. He has also contributed to the collection Voices of Fremantle published by WA Museum Press.

Freotopia

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 8 May, 2018 and hosted at freotopia.org/fhs/fs/7/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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