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| Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society |
| Discipline | History |
| Former names | Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society |
| Abbreviation | JR AHS |
| Publisher | Royal Australian Historical Society |
| Country | Australia |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1914–present |
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society The Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society is a peer‑reviewed quarterly periodical published by the Royal Australian Historical Society that covers Australian historical scholarship, archival research, historiography and public history. It publishes research articles, reviews and primary source editions engaging with Australian colonialism, Indigenous histories, migration, settlement, polity formation and transnational connections. Contributors have included professionals and academics from institutions such as the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Australian National University and state museums.
Founded as the Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1914, the Journal evolved alongside institutions like the Royal Society of New South Wales, State Library of New South Wales, and National Library of Australia. Early contributors included figures connected to the Federation debates, the White Australia Policy era, and the Anzac tradition, intersecting with events such as the First World War, Second Boer War, and the Gallipoli campaign. Over decades it reflected scholarly responses to the Australian frontier conflicts, the Mabo decision, and constitutional developments including the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act and the Australia Acts. Editorial lineages show links with historians trained at institutions like the University of Queensland, Monash University, University of Adelaide and Flinders University, and with civic organizations such as the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia.
The Journal publishes articles on subjects including colonial administrators, governors, explorers, settlers and Indigenous leaders; case studies often concern figures connected to the Rum Rebellion, Lachlan Macquarie, William Bligh, Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders and Charles Sturt. Thematic clusters address penal transportation, convict biographies, maritime exploration, gold rushes, and economic patterns tied to the Eureka Rebellion, the Burke and Wills expedition, and the Snowy Mountains Scheme. It includes scholarship on Australian political figures linked to the Barton ministry, Alfred Deakin, Billy Hughes, Robert Menzies and Gough Whitlam, as well as analyses intersecting with international events like the Boxer Rebellion, Pacific Islander indenture, and postwar migration from the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and Vietnam. The Journal also publishes archival source editions, oral histories, book reviews, and historiographical essays engaging with studies from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press and the Australian Scholarly Publishing sector.
Published by the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Journal operates a board comprising academics affiliated with the University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania, University of Western Australia, La Trobe University and Deakin University. Editorial practices follow peer review norms similar to those of journals like Australian Historical Studies and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Print runs and digital dissemination engage platforms used by JSTOR, Project MUSE, and national repositories like Trove. The masthead records ISSN identifiers and notes governance by the Society’s council, which includes fellows associated with the Order of Australia and contributors who have held fellowships at the British Academy, Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
The Journal is indexed in major bibliographic and disciplinary services alongside titles such as Historical Studies, The English Historical Review, and The Journal of Pacific History. Abstracting services include databases used by researchers accessing content related to the Pacific Islands Forum, ANZAC commemorations, maritime history of the Indian Ocean, and scholarship on penal colonies. Libraries cataloguing the Journal include holdings at the State Library of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, National Library of Australia, Mitchell Library, and international collections at the British Library, Library of Congress, and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Notable contributions have examined topics like frontier violence linked to the Myall Creek massacre, frontier treaties and negotiations including research on William Cooper, Indigenous activism intersecting with the 1967 referendum and the Tent Embassy, and legal history surrounding the Mabo v Queensland (No 2) judgment and Native Title Act. Other influential pieces have revisited the Eureka Stockade, reassessed the significance of convicts such as Francis Greenway, reinterpreted the Burke and Wills expedition, and explored Australian diplomatic history with case studies tied to the ANZUS treaty, Colombo Plan, and the Whitlam dismissal. The Journal has published archival discoveries concerning explorers linked to James Cook, Abel Tasman, and Dirk Hartog, and biographical essays about literary and cultural figures connected to Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Patrick White and Miles Franklin.
The Journal has been cited in monographs and theses from contexts including the Australian Studies Centre, Chifley Research Centre, and university history departments, influencing curricula at institutions like the University of New England and the Australian Catholic University. Its articles have shaped public commemorations involving the Shrine of Remembrance, National Museum of Australia exhibitions, and state heritage listings. Scholars referencing the Journal appear alongside names associated with Cambridge, Oxford, ANU Press, Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan publications. The Journal’s impact extends to debates over Australian national identity, heritage law, Indigenous recognition, migration policy history and historiographical revisions concerning settler colonialism and imperial networks.
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