Notes
1 Stuart Macintyre, ‘The Making of a School’, Introduction to R.M. Crawford, Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey, Making History (Fitzroy and Ringwood: McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1985), 4.
2 Jane Carey and Patricia Grimshaw, ‘The First 95 Years: Women Academic Staff in the History Department, 1909 to 2004’, in The Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, ed. Fay Anderson and Stuart Macintyre (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006), 127–54.
3 This incident, many of the details of which remain embargoed, is discussed in Fay Anderson’s A Historian’s Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2005), chapter 7.
4 The thesis was subsequently published as S.L. Hateley, ‘The Queen’s Fund, Melbourne’, Melbourne Historical Journal 11 (1972): 11–41.
5 E.A. Wrigley, Identifying People in the Past (London: Edward Arnold, 1973).
6 S.L. Swain, ‘The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890’s’ (PhD thesis, Department of History, The University of Melbourne, 1976), http://hdl.handle.net/11343/38768.
7 Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips and Shurlee Swain, Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Colonies, 1830s–1910 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
8 Shurlee Swain, ‘The Poor People of Melbourne’, in The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History, ed. Graeme Davison, David Dunstan and Chris McConville (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1985), 91–112.
9 Shurlee Swain, ‘Mrs Hughes, Charity Worker’ and ‘Selina Sutherland, Licensed Child Rescuer’ in Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, ed. Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly (Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985), 109–116, 126–31.
10 Shurlee Swain, A Refuge at Kildare: The History of the Geelong Female Refuge and Bethany Babies’ Home (Bethany: Geelong, 1985).
11 Renate Howe and Shurlee Swain, All God’s Children: A Centenary History of the Methodist Homes for Children and The Orana Peace Memorial Homes (Canberra: Acorn Press, 1989); Renate Howe and Shurlee Swain, The Challenge of the City: A Centenary History of Wesley Central Mission (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1993). Dorothy Scott and Shurlee Swain, Confronting Cruelty (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002).
12 Shurlee Swain with Renate Howe, Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
13 Shurlee Swain and Margot Hillel, Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).
14 Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain, eds, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), https://www.emelbourne.net.au/.
15 These projects culminated in the publication of an oral history of the early years of the Court. Shurlee Swain, Born in Hope: A History of the Early Years of the Family Court of Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2012).
16 The most important of this chain of inquiries are: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Sydney: HREOC, 1997); Australian Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Lost Innocents: Righting the Record Report on Child Migration (Canberra: Senate Printing Unit, 2001). Forgotten Australians: A Report on Australians who Experienced Institutional or Out-of-home Care as Children (Canberra: Senate Printing Unit, 2004). Australian Senate Community Affairs References Committee, Commonwealth Contribution to Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices (Canberra: Senate Printing Unit, 2012). Commonwealth of Australia, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report (Sydney: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2017).
17 Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain and Denise Cuthbert, The Market in Babies: Stories of Adoption (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2013).
18 Katie Wright, Shurlee Swain and Kathleen McPhillips, eds, Examining the Past and Shaping the Future: The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (London: Routledge, 2022).
19 Cate O’Neill and Nell Musgrove, ‘The Who Am I Project (2008-2012)’, https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/vic/biogs/E000123b.htm.
20 ‘Find and Connect’ available at https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/.
21 Johanna Skӧld and Shurlee Swain, eds, Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in ‘Care’ (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
22 Frank Golding, ‘The Care Leaver’s Perspective’, Archives and Manuscripts 44, no. 3 (2016): 160–64, DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2016.1266954.
23 See for example: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/grant-denyer-felt-sick-after-learning-of-shocking-family-secret/news-story/bfe10878005d280f421aae67ed28ae97.
24 Shurlee Swain, ‘Stakeholders as Subjects: The Role of Historians in the Development of Australia’s Find & Connect Web Resource’, The Public Historian 36, no. 4 (2014): 38–50.