The following bibliography contains a selection of published works based on research using the collections of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. It has been compiled as a record of uses made of the collections over the years. It also indicates the range of research made possible by the efforts of the Centre’s founders and staff to develop and maintain a non –government archives of national significance at The Australian National University.
The bibliography is divided into three sections:
Suggestions on the format and coverage of the bibliography are welcome. Contact butlin.archives@anu.edu.au
Barnard, Alan. The Australian Wool Market, 1840-1900. Parkville: Melbourne University Press, 1958
Barnard, Alan. Visions and Profits: Studies in the Business Career of T. S. Mort. Parkville: Melbourne University Press, 1961
Barnard, Alan (ed) The simple fleece: studies in the Australian Wool Industry. Parkville: Melbourne University Press, 1962
Gollan, Robin. The coalminers of New South Wales: a history of the union, 1860-1960. Parkville: Melbourne University Press, 1963
Butlin, Noel G. Investment in Australian Economic Development, 1861-1900. London: Cambridge University Press, 1964
Forster, Colin. Industrial Development in Australia, 1920-1930. Canberra: Australian National University, 1964
Bailey, J D. A hundred years of pastoral banking: a history of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company, 1863-1963. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966
Caiden, Gerald E. The ACPTA: a study of white collar public service unionism in the Commonwealth of Australia, 1885-1922. Canberra: Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1966
Hagan, Jim. Printers and politics: a history of the Australian printing unions, 1850-1950. Canberra: Australian National University Press, [1966]
Buckley, K D. The amalgamated engineers in Australia, 1852-1920. Canberra: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1970
Lindesay, Vane. The inked-in image: a survey of Australian comic art. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1970
Makin, Jock. The big run: the story of Victoria River Downs. Adelaide: Rigby Ltd, 1970
Ross, Edgar. A history of the Miners’ Federation of Australia. Sydney: The Australasian Coal & Shale Employee’s Federation (Miners’ Federation), 1970
Rothery, F.M.. Atlas of Bundaleer Plains and Tatala introd. by N G Butlin and J N Jennings. Canberra: Business Archives, Australian National University in association with Australian National University Press, 1970
McSwan, E H. The sugar industry on the Lower Clarence. Maclean District Historical Society, Clarence Press, 1973
Gollan, Robin. Revolutionaries and reformists: communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1955. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1975
Mitchell, Bruce. Teachers education & politics: a history of organizations of public school teachers in New South Wales. St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1975
Sheridan, Thomas. Mindful militants : the Amalgamated Engineering Union in Australia, 1920-1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975
Rickard, John David. Class and politics : New South Wales, Victoria and the early Commonwealth, 1890. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976
Walker, R B. The newspaper press in New South Wales, 1803-1920. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976
Ronald, Heather B. Wool past the winning post: a history of the Chirnside family. South Yarra: Landvale Enterprises, 1978
Freeman, Peter. The woolshed: a Riverina anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980
Fitzpatrick, Jim. The bicycle in the bush: man and machine in rural Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980
Juddery, Bruce. White collar power: a history of the ACOA. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1980
Hagan, Jim. The history of the ACTU. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1981
Buckley, K and Klugman, K. The history of Burns Philp: the Australian company in the South Pacific. Sydney: Burns Philp & Co Ltd, 1981
Moynagh, Michael. Brown or white? A history of the Fiji sugar industry, 1873-1973. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1981 (Pacific research monograph; no.5)
Adam-Smith, Patsy. The shearers. Melbourne: Nelson, 1982
Freeman, Peter. The homestead: a Riverina anthology. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982
Hill, John. From subservience to strike: industrial relations in the banking industry. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982
Murray, Robert and White, Kate. The ironworkers : a history of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982
Buckley, K and Klugman, K. The Australian presence in the Pacific: Burns Philp, 1914-1946. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983
Green, David G. and Gromwell, Lawrence G. Mutual aid of welfare state: Australia’s friendly societies. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984
Macintyre, Stuart. Militant: the life and times of Paddy Troy. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984
Moyal, Ann. Clear across Australia: a history of telecommunications. Melbourne, Vic: Nelson, 1984
Richardson, Len. The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, c1984
Lloyd, Clem. Profession: journalist. A history of the Australian Journalists’ Association. Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1985
Buckley, K and Klugman, K. South Pacific focus: a record in words and photographs of Burns Philp at work. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986
Butlin, S J. The Australian monetary system, 1851-1914. Sydney: J.F. Butlin, 1986
Dickenson, Mary. Hospitals and politics : the Australian Hospital Association 1946-86.
Deakin, ACT: Australian Hospital Association, 1986
James, Bob. Anarchism and state violence in Sydney and Melbourne, 1886-1896: an argument about Australian labor history. Newcastle East, NSW: Bob James, 1986
Johnson, Audrey. Fly a rebel flag: Bill Morrow, 1888-1980. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books, 1985
Kronborg, Jamie. Big Willandra: a pastoral history of the Willandra Estate. [Jerilderie, NSW]: Willandra Merino Stud, 1986
Merritt, John. The making of the AWU. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985
Pemberton, Pennie. Pure merinos and others: the "shipping lists" of the Australian Agricultural Company. Canberra: Archives of Business and Labour, Australian National University, 1986
Tsokhas, Kosmas. Beyond dependence: companies, labour processes and Australian mining. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986
Bowen, Jill. Kidman, the forgotten king: the true story of the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1987
Bray, Mark and Malcolm Rimmer. Delivering the goods: a history of the Transport Workers’ Union in New South Wales 1888-1986. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987
Inglis, Amirah. Australians in the Spanish Civil War. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987
O’Brien, John. A divided unity! Politics of NSW teacher militancy since 1945. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987
Ronald, Heather B. Wool before the wind: a history of the Ronald family and the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company. South Yarra, Vic: Landvale Enterprises, 1987
A history of the Australian Hotels Association in New South Wales, 1873-1988. Australian Hotels Association, Sydney, [1988]
Bonnin, Roberta (ed). Dazzling prospects: women in the Queensland Teachers’ Union since 1945. Spring Hill, Qld: Queensland Teachers’ Union,1988
Dargavel, John (ed). Sawing, selling & sons: histories of Australian timber firms. Canberra: Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1988
Radi, Heather (ed). 200 Australian women: a redress anthology. Broadway, NSW: Women’s Redress Press, [1988]
Beruldsen, J D. Beneath the bonnet: a history of Australian automotive parts manufacturers since 1896. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1989
Ellem, Bradon. In women’s hands? A history of clothing trades unionism in Australia. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press, 1989
Johnson, Carol. The Labor legacy: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989
Roberts, Mick R. The little house on the hill: a history of the development of coaching inns & hotels in the Bulli District NSW. Bulli, NSW: Mick Roberts 1989
Spaull, Andrew and Sullivan, Martin. A history of the Queensland Teachers Union. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989
Svensen, Stuart. The shearers war: the story of the 1891 shearers strike. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1989
White, Kate. Barney: the story of Rees D. Williams, architect of the white-collar union movement. Melbourne: Hargreen in conjuction with the Australian Bank Employees Union, 1989
Hearn, Mark. Working lives : a history of the Australian Railways Union (NSW Branch). Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1990
Johnson, Audrey. Bread & roses : a personal history of three militant women and their friends, 1902-1988. Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club Co-op., 1990
Massy, Charles. The Australian merino. Ringwood, Vic: Viking O'Neil, 1990
Pickett, Charles. Refreshing! Art off the pub wall. Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing in association with Allen & Unwin, 1990
Wood, R J. The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited: history of an Australian institution, 1866-1981. North Melbourne: Hargreen Publishing Co., 1990
Broomham, Rosemary. Steady revolutions : The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, 1881-1990. Sydney: NSW University Press, 1991
Lack, John. A history of Footscray. North Melbourne: Hargreen Publishing Co., 1991
McEachern, Doug. Business mates : the power and politics of the Hawke era. New York; Sydney: Prentice Hall, 1991
Grant John and Matthews, John. Commercial perfins of Australia. Weston Creek, ACT: J. Grant and J. Matthews, 1992
Smith, Graham. Sweet beginnings: a history of sugar cane growing on the Richmond River of New South Wales. Compiled from the letters, reports, and people of an ongoing industry. East Coraki, NSW: Graham Smith, 1991
Tregenza, John. Le Messuriers of Port Adelaide: five generations of enterprise in transport and timber. Port Adelaide: The Le Messurier Timber Company Pty Ltd, 1991
Bell, Stephen. Australian manufacturing and the state: the politics of industry policy in the post-war era. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993
Hyams, Bernard. From compliance to confrontation : 140 Years of teachers’ unions in South Australia, 1851-1991. Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1992
Sharpe, David. Remember that heavenly ginger beer? A history of Sharpe Bros. Melbourne: D. Sharpe, 1992
Short, Susanna. Laurie Short: a political life. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin in association with Lloyd Ross Forum, 1992
Blainey, Geoffrey. Jumping Over the Wheel. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993
Bowden, Bradley. Driving force : the history of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia 1883-1992. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993
Carey, Marguerita. Tetbury to Stroud : a short account of the life of William and Elizabeth Street and their descendants. Burwood Heights, NSW: 1993. Self published
Dickenson, Mary. An unsentimental union: The NSW Nurses’ Association, 1931-1992. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1993
Frances, Rae. The politics of work: gender and labour in Victoria 1880-1939
Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993
McMahon, Vincent, Patsy Daley: a wild colonial boy, 1993. Self published
Walsh, Gerald. Pioneering days: people and innovations in Australia's rural past. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993
Labasa Mill Centennial Anniversary 1894-1994. Fiji: Fiji Sugar Corporation, [1994]
Jadeja, Raj. Parties to the award: a guide to the pedigrees and archival resources of federally registered trade unions, employer associations and their peak councils in Australia 1904-1994. Canberra: Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, 1994
Jopson, Debra. The red brigade: the official history of the New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees’ Union. Sydney: NSW Fire Brigade Employees' Union, 1994.
Stewart, Jenny. The lie of the level playing field : industry policy and Australia's future. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1994
Symons, Beverley with Andrew Wells and Stuart Macintyre. Communism in Australia: a resource bibliography. [Canberra]: National Library of Australia, 1994
Douglass, William A. From Italy to Ingham. Italians in North Queensland. St. Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press, 1995
Hiery, Hermann. The neglected war: the German South Pacific and the influence of World War I. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1995
McGrath, Ann and Saunders, Kay (eds) with Jackie Huggins. Aboriginal workers. Sydney: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1995
Oliver, Bobbie. War and peace in Western Australia: the social and political impact of the Great War, 1914-1926. Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1995
Peel, Mark. Good times, hard times: the past and the future in Elizabeth. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1995
Svensen, Stuart. The sinews of war: hard cash and the 1890 maritime strike. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press, 1995
Beasley, Margo. Wharfies : the history of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Halstead Press in association with the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996
Berzins, Baiba. North Coast women: a history to 1939. Sydney : Royal Australian Historical Society, 1996
Bird, Wal. South Sea Island Trader: narrative of a voyage to the islands of Melanesia on the MV Malaita, 1950. Wollongong, NSW: c1996
Bongiorno, Frank. The people’s party: Victorian Labor and the radical tradition, 1875-1914. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1996
Boys, Fay. One for the road – Condobolin hotels, shanties and the brewery, 1860-1996.
[Young, NSW] Self publication, [1996?]
Fyfe, Christopher. Gentlemen’s agreements: Australian wartime wool appraisements. Dalkeith, WA: Lana Press, 1996
Gifkins, Robert C. AIM-IMMA 50 years: records and recollections. Sydney: Institute of Metals and Materials Australasia Ltd. 1996
Hearn, Mark and Knowles, Harry. One big union: a history of the Australian Workers Union 1886-1994. Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Linn, Rob. Power, progress and profit: a history of the Australian accounting profession. Melbourne: Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, 1996.
Strahan, Lachlan. Australia’s China: changing perceptions from 1930s to the 1990s. Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Carnegie, Garry. Pastoral accounting in colonial Australia: a case study of unregulated accounting. New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc: 1997
Kirkby, Diane. Barmaids: a history of women’s work in pubs. Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997
MacKinnon, Alison. Love and freedom: professional women and the reshaping of personal life. Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Oliver, Bobbie. Peacemongers – conscientious objectors to military service in Australia, 1911-1945. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997
Paszkwski, Lech. Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki: reflections on his life. Melbourne [Vic.]: Arcadia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1997
Burgmann, Meredith and Burgmann, Verity. Green bans, red union: environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation. Sydney: UNSW Press, 1998
Fitzpatrick, Jim. The bicycle in wartime: an illustrated history. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1998
Foster, S.G., Susan Marsden and Roslyn Russell. Federation: the guide to records
Canberra: Australian Archives, c1998
McDonald, Tom and Audrey. Intimate union: sharing a revolutionary life. Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 1998
Macintyre, Stuart. The reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality. Allen & Unwin, 1998
Griffen-Foley, Bridget. The house of Packer: the making of a media empire. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999
Hutton, Drew and Connors, Libby. A history of the Australian environmental movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Merritt, John. That voluminous squatter: W. E. Abbott, Wingen. Bungendore, NSW: Turalla Press, 1999
In good company. 175 Years of Australian Agricultural Company, 1824-1999. Sydney: AACo. 1999
Palmer, David, Shanahan Ross, and Shanahan, Martin (eds) Australian labour history reconsidered. Unley, SA: Australian Humanities Press, 1999
Curthoys, Ann and Schultz, Julianne (eds). Journalism: print, politics and popular culture. St. Lucia, Qld: QUP, 1999
Griffen-Foley, Bridget. Sir Frank Packer: the young master. Pymble, NSW: Harper Collins, 2000
Millar, Ann (ed) [et. al] The biographical dictionary of the Australian Senate, with an introduction by the Clerk of the Senate, Harry Evans. Volume 1, 1901-1929. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2000
Ville, Simon. The rural entrepreneurs: a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Ferry, John and David Scobie. Junee: a railway town: conservation management plan: Junee Railway Station. Junee, NSW: April 2001
Boyce, Gordon H. Co-operative structures in global business: communicating, transferring knowledge and learning across the corporate frontier. London; New York: Routledge, 2001
D’Aprano, Zelda. Kath Williams: the unions and the fight for equal pay. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 2001.
Hoffenberg, Peter H. An empire on display. English, Indian and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley:University of California Press, 2001
Beaumont, Joan. The Australian history of defence. Volume VI. Australian defence: sSources and statistics. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001
Lyons, Martyn and Arnold, John (eds). A history of the book in Australia 1891-1945 : a national culture in a colonised market. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2001
Cameron, Kate, Lawless, Jennifer and Young, Carmel. Investigating Australia’s 20th century history. Southbank, Vic: Nelson: Thomson Learning, 2001
The collections of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre have also been used for the following ANU-based national research projects.
Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966-
Australians: a historical library. Broadway, NSW Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1987
Ramson, W.S. (ed). The Australian national dictionary: a dictionary of Australianisms on historical principles. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
Abbot, Malcolm J. "Promoting wool internationally: the formation of the International Wool Secretariat." Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 38, No 3, Nov. 1998
Bowden, Bradley and Barry, Michael. "The greatest curse...was unrestrained competition: regulating competition in the Queensland coal industry, 1900 to the 1930s." Labour History, No. 75, Nov.1998
Beris Penrose. "Medical experts and occupational illness: Weil’s Disease in North Queensland, 1933-1936." Labour History, No. 75, Nov. 1998
Burgmann, Verity. "Antipodean peculiarities: comparing the Australian IWW with the American." Labor History (USA), Vol. 40, No 3, Aug. 1999, pp. 371-392
Symons, Beverley. "Muriel Heagney and the fight for equal pay during World War II." The Hummer, publication of the Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Vol.3, No.1, Summer 1998-1999
Fleming, Grant and Terwiel, Dorothy. "What effect did early Australian Antitrust Legislation have on firm behaviour? Lessons from business history." Australian Business Law Review. Vol. 27, No 1, Feb. 1999
Reynolds, Peter. "Flood’s Estate. Land and building development in Leichhardt South from 1830." Leichhardt Historical Journal [1999?]
Patmore, Greg. "Localism and labour: Lithgow 1869-1932". Labour History, No.78, May 2000, pp.53-70
Bowden, Bradley. "A time ‘the like of which was never before experienced’: changing community loyalties in Ipswich", Labour History, No.78, May 2000, pp 71-93
Eather, Warwick. "A city to struggle in: Wagga Wagga and labour, 1940-75". Labour History, May 2000, pp.141-154.
Morris, Richard. "Job control and Commonwealth industrial relations policy: the 1920-21 strike and lockout of the Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association". Labour History, No.78, May 2000, pp 163-178.
Stubbs, Brett J., "Tied houses, taxes and technology: concentration in the brewing industry of New South Wales, 1882-1932". Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 39, No.2, July 1999, pp 87-113
Mallory, Greg. "The 1938 Dalfram pig-iron dispute and wharfies leader, Ted Roach" in: Robert Hood and Ray Markey (eds) Labour and community: Proceedings of the sixth national conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Wollongong: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Illawarra Branch, 1999, pp. 240-246
Stubbs, Brett. "City vs country: the demise of the brewing industry in country New South Wales, c1898-1932".
Australian Geographer, Vol. 31, No.1, pp 55-73, 2000
Welch, Catherine. "The archaeology of business networks: the use of archival records in case study research". Journal of Strategic Marketing. Vol. 8, pp 197-108, 2000
Keneley, M J. "Woolgrowers, brokers and the debate over the sale of the Australian wool clip, 1920-1925". Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2001
Gregson, Sarah. " It all started on the mines? The 1934 Kalgoorlie race riots revisited". Labour History. No. 80, May 2001, pp 21-40
Kinnear, Pamela. "The Politics of coal dust: industrial campaigns for the regulations of dust disease in Australian Coal Mining, 1939-49". Labour History, No. 80, May 2001, pp 65-82
Griggs, Peter. "River transport: punts, barges and tugs". Australian Sugarcane, Feb-Mar 2001, pp 17-18.
Wirtz, Judith. "Federation - a small family connection. The frustrating search for facts to prove family lore!" The South Australian Genealogist, Vol. 28 No.3, Aug. 2001, pp 8-11
Moore, Andrew. "Rugby league, the labour movement and working-class culture". Labour History, No.79, Nov. 2000, pp 57-70
Hutchinson, Diane. "Australian manufacturing business: entrepreneurship or missed opportunities?" Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 41, No.2, July 2001, pp 103-134