The English in Australia

COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
Maps......Page 10
introduction......Page 11
Writing about the English......Page 18
1 WHO WERE THE ENGLISH?......Page 21
The rural poor......Page 22
Town and country......Page 24
Religion......Page 29
Measuring the emigrants......Page 34
Where did they come from?......Page 36
Why did they come?......Page 38
A docile and insular people?......Page 41
The myth of ‘Old England’......Page 43
2 convicts, labourers and servants......Page 45
London as a sink of iniquity......Page 46
The industrial areas......Page 51
The provinces......Page 56
Rural unrest and transportation......Page 58
The Poor Law and emigration......Page 62
The search for farm labourers......Page 65
Servants......Page 68
From place of exile to land of promise......Page 71
3 farmers, miners, artisans and unionists......Page 72
Free settlers......Page 73
Rural labour – convict and free......Page 76
Assisted passages......Page 77
Private charities......Page 79
Early miners......Page 81
Gold miners......Page 83
Coal miners of the 1880s......Page 84
Artisans......Page 89
Trade unionism......Page 91
4 class and equality......Page 97
Escaping the class system......Page 100
A resentful society?......Page 101
Urban discontents......Page 102
Middle-class and professional emigrants......Page 104
Clubs, schools and the army......Page 105
The formation of élites......Page 109
The English as an upper class......Page 113
A land of opportunity?......Page 116
5 from colonies to commonwealth......Page 120
Building Queensland......Page 122
The shift to Commonwealth control......Page 127
Rural settlement......Page 130
The network of voluntary societies......Page 132
Child and youth migration......Page 135
Conflict and variety......Page 136
Building the empire by relieving poverty......Page 138
6 bringing out britons......Page 141
Assisted passages......Page 143
Bring out a Briton......Page 146
The hostels......Page 149
Going home......Page 152
Settling and assimilating......Page 155
Where they lived......Page 156
Who were they?......Page 159
Exceptional migrants......Page 161
The end of an era......Page 163
The English ‘fragment’......Page 166
The political English......Page 170
Radicals and dissenters......Page 178
The English at play......Page 183
The tragedy of English food......Page 186
How English is Australia?......Page 190
A mixed blessing?......Page 191
8 the english as ‘foreigners’......Page 196
Slow decline......Page 197
Shifting policies and priorities......Page 201
The invisible English......Page 203
An ambivalent relationship......Page 204
The republic referendum of 1999......Page 207
‘British’, ‘English or ‘just Anglo’?......Page 209
Will they ever come back?......Page 211
The English ‘contribution’......Page 214
2 Convicts, Labourers and Servants......Page 215
3 Farmers, Miners, Artisans and Unionists......Page 216
5 From Colonies to Commonwealth......Page 217
6 Bringing Out Britons......Page 218
8 The English as ‘Foreigners’......Page 219
Abbreviations......Page 220
Books......Page 221
Theses......Page 223
index......Page 224