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The birth of the newspaper in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalThe Sydney Gazette, first published by ex-convict George Howe in 1803. George Howe was also permitted to print Australia's first newspaper from a humble shed located at the rear of Government House. The Sydney Gazette was the only newspaper circulated i...
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List of Applicants - H (website Burke and Wills - Terra Incognita )* HACK, Stephen ** HADDEN, Thomas HADEN, James, 1830- HAGERTY, Thomas, 1834- ** HALE, Charles HALL, G. ** HALL, Robert, 1832- HANCOCK, John, 1824- (see also THOMAS, Henry Byron, 1833-) HANDFORD, Charles HANDLEY, Charles, 1827- HARINGTON, George, 1835- HAR...
> (A-Z) Howe, Ann (c. HOWE, GEORGE (1769-1821), printer, editor, publisher and poet, was born on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies, the son of Thomas Howe, government printer at Basseterre on St Christopher's Island. Print Publication Details: J...
WILLS, HORATIO SPENCER HOWE (1811-1861), pastoralist and politician, was born on 5 October 1811 in Sydney, the sixth child of Edward Spencer Wills and his wife Sarah, n~Že Harding. On Horatio Wills's first birthday his mother married George Howe, printer...
HUGHES, GEORGE (fl.1796-1800), 'government' printer, was in Sydney in January 1796 when a theatre was opened. Print Publication Details: 'Hughes, George (fl. 1796 - 1800)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, ...
In January 1827 the partnership of Howe & Ross was dissolved; Ross was appointed to sole charge of the government printing office in February and in March Howe began publishing the Tasmanian in Hobart. In October Ross began to publish weekly also the Hob...
Macdougall also became publisher-proprietor and later editor of the Tasmanian, but sold this paper to John Morgan in September 1839. Print Publication Details: E. Flinn, 'Macdougall, John Campbell (1805? E. Flinn, 'Macdougall, John Campbell (1805? ...
(A-Z) Harrison, James (1816? HARRISON, HENRY COLDEN ANTILL (1836-1929), 'father' of Australian Rules football, was born on 16 October 1836 at Jarvisfield, the property of his uncle, Major Henry Colden Antill, near Picton, New South Wales, son of John Har...
CROOK, WILLIAM PASCOE (1775-1846), missionary, schoolmaster and Congregational pastor, was born on 29 April 1775 at Dartmouth, Devon, England, son of Stephen and Maria Crook. William Pascoe Crook (Melb, 1846); J. King, Ten Decades, the Australian Centena...
HOWE, GEORGE (1769-1821), printer, editor, publisher and poet, was born on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies, the son of Thomas Howe, government printer at Basseterre on St Christopher's Island. The main difference between George and Robert was t...
Francis Greenway (1777 - 1837), by unknown artist, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales. GREENWAY, FRANCIS (1777-1837), architect, was born at Mangotsfield, near Bristol, England, son of Francis Greenway and Ann, n~Že Webb. Print Publication Deta...
In 1861 he sold the mill to George Day in exchange for the 90,000-acre (36,421 ha) Yarra Yarra run, near Germanton (Holbrook). When their father died in 1864 the brothers dissolved the partnership and James took Yarra Yarra and Billabong. Print Publicat...
HOWE, GEORGE TERRY (1806-1863), printer and publisher, was born on 18 December 1806 in Sydney, the second son of George Howe and Elizabeth Easton. In that month Lieutenant-Governor (Sir) George Arthur persuaded Howe to bring his press to Hobart Town and ...
HOWE, ANN (c.1802-1842), newspaper proprietor, was born in Sydney, daughter of Sarah Bird, a successful convict entrepreneur and publican, and John Morris, also a former convict. On 17 December 1821 at St Phillip's Church of England Ann Bird married Robe...
KING, PHILIP GIDLEY (1758-1808), governor, was born at Launceston, Cornwall, England, on 23 April 1758. After five weeks in Sydney King landed on Norfolk Island early in November, and six weeks later Anna Josepha safely gave birth to a son, Phillip Parke...
Tom excelled at Rugby School in sports; returning to Melbourne in 1856 he became the transcendent cricketer in the colony of Victoria. Elizabeth left Mrs McGillivray s and on 2 December 1833 married Horatio Wills, editor of the Sydney Gazette, after a cou...
A week later, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) [i] held its second OZeculture conference, Taking the Next Step, to induce thoughts on Australian culture in the digital age. David Kennedy from the National Offic...
The dull monotony was attacked on Boxing Day 1832, when two plays were presented in the saloon of the Royal Hotel, Sydney. By October 1833, the theatre behind the hotel had been completed and, on 5 October, Levey's second season of plays opened at the Th...
PDF version of PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY, 6th edition (Sydney, Archive of Australian Judaica, University of Sydney Library, 2008), first published in 1986. In 1968 the Australian Jewish Herald began to publish a series ...
A discussion about what was recently described by Keith Thomas in the Times Literary Supplement as 'an underrated literary genre' - the obituary. Ramona Koval: Today, the art of the obituary, with three people who are experts in this neglected literary fo...
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