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Title: | 2005 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture: Tasmania and the Multiplicity of Nations | Contributor(s): | Atkinson, AT (author) | Publication Date: | 2005 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/106 | Abstract: | I want to start by saying something about the history of Australian history. There is a general idea, I think, that interest in the Australian past is mainly a product of the federation yem's and since. In other words, Australians tend to believe that no-one paid any attention to the history of Australia until about the 1880s and '90s. We have the impression that the birth of a national historiography, or historical sensibility, was marked by the publication of the Historical Records of New South Wales, the Historical Records of Australia and Rusden's three-volume History, by the crystallisation of 'the Australian Legend', and by the erection of all those statues which today so powerfully remind us of high Victorian pieties and aspirations. It seems to make sense that there should have been no feeling for history in this country until we were in a position to think of Australia as a single nation: one community with a single past and future. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, 52(4), p. 189-200 | Publisher: | Tasmanian Historical Research Association Inc | Place of Publication: | Sandy Bay, Australia | ISSN: | 0039-9809 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | HERDC Category Description: | C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://thra.org.au/ |
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