Catherine Dewhirst

Catherine Dewhirst
University of Southern Queensland ·  School of Humanities and Communication

Doctor of Philosophy
BA UNSW, GDipEd UNSW, DipCivFr Paris-Sorbonne, MA UNSW, PhD QUT

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Introduction
Dr Catherine Dewhirst, Senior Lecturer in History, School of Humanities and Communication, and member of the Centre for Heritage and Culture, Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland. Her research focusses on migration and women's histories. She has published on the effects of the politics of whiteness and racism on Italian migrant communities, the Italian-migrant periodical press, family histories and memories, and women's social, cultural and political experiences.

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The figure of Costante Danesi (1884–1969) stands out as an unrelenting defender of the rights of Italian migrants in Queensland’s history between the two world wars. Although his activism as an anti-fascist is documented in archival records and mainstream and Italian-migrant newspapers of the time, his role has received little more than cursory att...
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The Introduction to this special issue explains the rationale for its publication. It is intended to further the exploration of both sides of the Queensland–Italy connection, extending the already considerable body of work on Italians in Queensland and contributing to the heretofore less-examined field of Queenslanders’ experiences of Italy. In par...
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British and Australian children's books about the Great War remain a steadfastly conservative example of popular culture, particularly when exploring war time nursing. The marginalized place of females in children's literature, the failure of the official histories to adequately acknowledge the unique experience of the nurses, and the popular focus...
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Vida Goldstein was one of the first women in the world to stand for national election on equal footing with men in Australia in 1903. Her feminist newspaper, The Australian Woman’s Sphere (1900–1905), documents much of her political campaign but also reveals a remarkable interplay with the mainstream press. This chapter explores how white women and...
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Australia’s migrant and minority communities have often experienced a history of exclusion from mainstream society, as well as various forms of prejudice and discrimination. Establishing periodical press enterprises became a means for community members to unify, providing cohesion and support on many levels and offering readers a base for interacti...
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“Dewhirst and Scully once more bring together a thought-provoking compilation of original studies of Australia’s minority and migrant press. The thematic scope and chronological range are wide. There is much to be learned and pondered in this well-edited volume.” — Cameron Hazlehurst, Australian National University “The authors show how diverse gr...
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The history of the printed press in Australia parallels that of other countries in building on the developments of a long chronicle of newspaper culture generally, and reflecting traditions and practices established abroad, notably from Britain and Europe. Such developments and traditions speak to the particular which, in Australia as elsewhere, wa...
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Italian Fascism began to exert ideological demands over the communities, businesses, and newspapers of Italian migrants in Australia by the mid-1920s. In the lead up to the Second World War, the Commonwealth government enacted measures to thwart the danger of Fascist propaganda, which impacted profoundly on Italian migrant community networks and ne...
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Since the Archives Act of 1983 Australia's Second World War internees have had access to their wartime files, yet little attention has focused on whether they and their families have consulted these records, or on their responses to them. From the early 2000s historians and archivists began discussing the need for combining private oral testimony w...
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This edited collection is the first of two volumes and invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia’s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day. With a focus on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple...
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The historiography of Australian imperialism before the First World War has often neglected a context wider than the relationship with Great Britain. Yet this era also implicated non-British governments and their emigrants. Despite their small numbers, Italian settlers are significant for highlighting Italy's empire-building and Australia's struggl...
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The Italian imperialist program of the period before the Great War went beyond the project to annex other Mediterranean territories in order to include the colonization of the immigrant communities. Today, historians tend to concentrate on Italian foreign policy rather than on the perspective and experience of migration. This essay begins with a mu...
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The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century. Sweeping economic change, intellectual currents, agricultural policies, and the built heritage facilitated the rise in status of some mercantile families. Tracing the pressures facing a foreign mer...
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On 17 October 2009, over 70 people from a broad spectrum of Australian society gathered at the Dante Alighieri Society premises in Newmarket, Brisbane, to participate in a scholarly symposium. The purpose was to reflect on the long history of Italians in Queensland in a public manner, as part of the state's sesquicentenary celebrations. The program...
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This article analyses the historiographical record of Italians in Queensland over 150 years, incorporating developments in Western historical thought. It takes a particular criticism about ethnic histories, as they have developed from Australia's multicultural context, to explore Italian migration experiences in Queensland. This historiography reve...
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This article examines the experience of Italian migrants as ‘ethnic whites’ in the period before World War I through two foreign language newspapers, L'Italo-Australiano (1905–1909) and the Oceania (1913–1915). The social history that emerges from these newspapers provides insight into Australia's national history and is complemented by views from...

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