Commissioned Histories - Institute for Public History
- Introduction
- About Commissioned Histories and Current Titles
About Commissioned Histories
The first commissioned history completed and also published by the Institute for Public History was Bringing Home the Bacon: A History of the Harris Family's Castlemaine Bacon Company 1905-2005. Written by Leigh Edmonds, a member of the Professional Historians Association, this book was launched at the Castlemaine Arts Festival in April 2005. Although Bringing Home the Bacon is the Institute for Public History's first commissioned history, it was not the first history commissioned through the School. Another centenary publication, A Dreaming That Shall Not Fade: One Hundred Years of the Methodist Ladies College Old Collegians' Club, written by Monash history graduate Cathy Schapper, was launched at MLC in March 2004.
Commissioned histories continue to roll into the Institute for Public History. The Rotary Club of Prahran: Fifty years serving the community 1955-2005 has just been completed, as has a personal memoir, A Colourful Life: A Memoir of Ferencz Schwartz/Fred Agar OAM.
Current Titles
- Walk with me: a history of Sacred Heart Mission, St Kilda
- Josephine Hook
- Institute for Public History, Monash University, (forthcoming April 2008)
Father Ernie Smith began to walk with the people of St Kilda in 1982. His were the first of many steps taken in forming St Kilda’s
Sacred Heart Mission which today employs 150 staff and 450 volunteers who help thousands of people access the basic necessities of life,
connect with the community and develop support networks that nurture their lives. Against the backdrop of changing demographic and housing
patterns in Melbourne, and changes in the church and models of caring, this history of the Sacred Heart Mission traces the way this agency
has evolved and responded to the social issues of homelessness and prostitution and the effect of these on the local community of St Kilda.
- Copies available at Sacred Heart Mission
- 87 Grey Street
- St Kilda Vic 3162
- Phone: 03 9537 1166
- A Good School: Haileybury's Post-War Years
- Leigh Edmonds
- Institute for Public History, Monash University, 2008
What is a good school?
Does it simply provide a service for a fee? Does it embody a tradition? Does it serve a higher purpose?
How do you judge what is a good school?
This history of Haileybury in the post war years explores how its various Headmasters and Principals and their school communities
have tried to answer these questions, each in their own time and in their own way. Getting it right has never been easy but getting it
wrong has never been an option.
- Copies are available at Haileybury College
- 855-891 Springvale Road
- Keysborough Vic 3173
RRP. $20.00
Coming home: A history of Corpus Christi Community
Greenvale, Melbourne
Josephine Hook
The Institute
of Public History, Monash University, 2006
Copies
available from:
The Central Catholic Bookshop
322 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Telephone:
+61 3 9639 0844
Fax: +61 3 9639 0879
RRP. $22.00
A Dreaming That Shall Not Fade: One Hundred Years
of the Methodist Ladies College Old Collegians' Club
Cathy Schapper
Melbourne, Methodist Ladies' College Old Collegians'
Club, 2004
Copies available from:
Methodist Ladies' College Old Collegians' Club
207 Barkers Road
Kew VIC 3101
Telephone:
+61 3 9274 6333
Fax: +61 3 9819 2345
Email:
college@mlc.vic.edu.au
RRP. $55.00
Bringing Home the Bacon: A History of the Harris
Family's Castlemaine Bacon Company 1905-2005
Leigh Edmonds
Melbourne, The Institute for Public History, Monash University,
2005
Copies available from:
Stoneman's
Bookroom
101 Mostyn Street
Castlemaine VIC
3450
Tel: +61 3 5470 5134
Fax: +61 3 5470
5652
RRP. $21.95
The Rotary Club of Prahran: Fifty years serving the
community 1955-2005
Vicky Ryan
Melbourne,
The Institute for Public History, Monash University, 2006
Copies available from:
The Rotary Club of Prahran
P.O. Box 265
Prahran VIC 3181
RRP (TBC)
A Colourful Life: A Memoir of Ferencz Schwartz/Fred Agar OAM, as told to Leigh Edmonds, 2006
This publication is for private distribution
To obtain copies contact Michael Agar:
Agar@melbpc.org.au
For further information contact:
Dr Susan Aykut, Deputy Director
Institute
for Public History
Phone: +61 9905 5258
Email: Susan.Aykut@arts.monash.edu.au