P A Pickering
Biographic Data
| ID | 12617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P A Pickering |
| GIVEN NAMES | P A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pickering |
| SIGNATURE | PICKERING P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3142-5784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Social Media and Extremism
Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the ‘fake news’ fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech. In the face of widespread calls for action, governments
Garibaldi in Australia
One of the most famous public figures in later nineteenth-century Australia was Giuseppe Garibaldi. The man known as the ‘hero of two worlds’ – Europe and South America – was in fact also the hero of a third. The nature of Garibaldi's iconic status in the Australian colonies was complex, multi-faceted, and fractured and it occurred at a moment when the notion of celebrity was being transformed amid what was effectively a fundamental democratizati…
Sounds of liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting an…
A New Terror to Death: Public Memory and the Disappearance of John Dunmore Lang
John Dunmore Lang was one the most prominent figures in Australian colonial politics. As the founder of the Scots Church in Sydney, a long-serving member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the editor of his own newspapers and the author of hundreds of books and pamphlets, Lang had an enormous platform to express his views. Despite his prominence in life, Lang’s legacy has been distorted by public memory and his passionate support for an …
Debate: Terry Irving and Paul Pickering
Terry Irving responds to Paul Pickering's criticism of his work in a recent issue of LHR, followed by the latter's rejoinder. The exchange is part of a wider discussion between them about ‘Chartism and something more’ in the context of colonial Australia. Irving criticizes the ‘British world’ focus of Pickering's work because it underplays the material forces and practices that reveal the situation-specific meaning of political ideas; Pickering c…
From Rifle Club to Reading Room: Sydney's Democratic Vistas, 1848-1856
The history of Chartism outside Britain remains one of the most neglected aspects of scholarship devoted to the movement. This article explores the story of two loosely connected organizations in Sydney, New South Wales, that were established by former radicals and Chartists and inspired by ideas and aspirations best understood under the rubric ‘Chartism and Something More’. Sydney's democrats, like many others throughout the Anglophone world, he…
Conserving the People’s History: Lessons From Manchester and Salford
The closest that Margaret Thatcher comes \nto an admission of failure in her voluminous \npolitical memoirs concerns her efforts to \npromote history as a subject for school \nchildren. Ironically, however, one of the \nacknowledged legacies of the Thatcher years, \na by-product of the transformation of the \nBritish economy from manufacturing to \nservices under her stewardship, is the proliferation \nof museums and historical precincts that \np…
Monuments and Commemorations: A Consideration
When William Charles Wentworth, \nthe leading conservative politician \nin the colony of New South Wales, retired \nfrom public life in order to travel to \nBritain in 1853, he informed his devoted \nfollowers that he would ‘accept no \ntestimonial except in the form of a colossal \nstatue of his person to be placed in some \nvery conspicuous part of Sydney’. \nAccording to the report in a hostile \nnewspaper, Wentworth issued this \ndemand so th…
Songs for the Millions: Chartist Music and Popular Aural Tradition
Songs and singing, and music making more generally, are a neglected aspect of the social culture of Chartism. Many of the Chartist musings that have been treated as poetry by scholars were, in fact, lyrics for songs with identifiable melodies which drew on a rich aural tradition in popular culture. Chartist rituals almost invariably involved music as well as speech; the ranks of the movement were filled with musicians. The music they made, in its…
The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Radicalism in the British World
This article explores John Dunmore Lang’s relationship with British radicals and, in particular, his attempts to promote a scheme to grow cotton in the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales. Lang belies the notion of a tyranny of distance; he is also an ideal case study of radicalism in the wider British world. His promise of an international humanitarian crusade against slavery in North America stands in stark contrast to his attitude to the f…
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas and Institutions in Historical Perspective ‐ By Cheryl Schonhardt‐Bailey
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective
Ann's book on the Australian Freedom Ride of 1965, published in the same year, 2002, was initially conceived as a national, or even local, history project.Her aim was to explore a very specific political movement -its antecedents, multiple character, tensions, and effects.The Freedom Ride was a two week event in which university students, mainly non-Indigenous but with an Indigenous leader, Charles Perkins, travelled around country towns in New S…
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, 1981-1990, A-K
Was the 'Southern Tree of Liberty' an Oak
Sometimes some important thesis are not published due to certain reasons. This affects the scholarships and historical understanding. This paper discusses a book called'Southern Tree of Liberty' explaining its plus and minus points in detail
An Afterthought: Why we should tell stories of the British World
According to the Royal Mail, Britons \npost approximately 10 million Christmas \ncards to Australia every year.1 This extraordinary \nvolume of seasonal felicitations \nis a reminder that at its core the British \nworld is a corporeal system
Jas review of books
Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985. Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834. Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958. Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Life, Carlton, MUP, 2003, pp 322, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850782. Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Mem…
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
Ripe for a republic’: British radical responses to the eureka stockade
From the moment that the news arrived in Melbourne, the Eureka stockade has been repeatedly described, analysed and contested. Surprisingly there has been little attempt to explore reactions to the rebellion in the wider British world of which the young colony of Victoria was a part. By examining the response of British radicals to the events in Ballarat this article illustrates how they sought to contribute to and learn from the actions of their…
The Hearts of the Millions’: Chartism and Popular Monarchism in the 1840s
Despite the emergence of an abrasive sense of class‐consciousness during the 1830s, an investigation into the Chartists’ attitudes to monarchy highlights the limits of their challenge. For most Chartists the queen was not the problem. While some Chartists saw a positive role for the ‘pre‐Bagehot monarchy’ in attaining the Charter, others had discovered Bagehot's circumscribed monarchy long before he had. This recognition of the queen's supra‐poli…
UK-Australian Labour History Conference, Manchester, 16-18 July 2003
Held at the adjacent campuses of Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University in weather more like an Australian summer than is usual for Manchester (even in summer), this Conference brought together well known practitioners of 'labour history' in Australia and Britain, some 'early career researchers' and, most encouragingly, some graduate students. Ostensibly it might appear as if the Conference was a by-product of what is nowada…
JAS review of books
Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 218, pb S49.95. ISBN 0522850367. John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 176, pb $29.95. ISBN 0868407569 John Carroll, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe Publications, pp 106, pb $16.95. ISBN 0908011849. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: G…
And Your Petitioners &c: Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48
AT nine o'clock on Monday morning, 2 May 1842, many thousands of Londoners began to assemble at various points in the metropolis to play their part in what the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, described as a 'novel .. . and dangerous experiment' -marching on the House of Commons to present a National Petition praying 'that a nation's wrongs should be redressed'. 1 By eleven o'clock, amidst bright sunshine, the various local and regi…
Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford
The Class of 96: A Biographical Analysis of New Government Members of the Australian House of Representatives
The 1996 federal election brought thirty‐six new government members into the House of Representatives. The size of the "Class of 96" provides an opportunity for a comparison of biographical characteristics, looking for common experiences and backgrounds, as well as for an exploration of similarities and differences with previous cohorts of Coalition MPs. This examination will suggest that, in biographical terms, the "Class of 96" represents a sig…
Glimpses of Eternal Truth: Chartism, Poetry and the Young H.R. Nicholls
And Your Petitioners &c: Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48
AT nine o'clock on Monday morning, 2 May 1842, many thousands of Londoners began to assemble at various points in the metropolis to play their part in what the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, described as a 'novel .. . and dangerous experiment' -marching on the House of Commons to present a National Petition praying 'that a nation's wrongs should be redressed'. 1 By eleven o'clock, amidst bright sunshine, the various local and regi…
Class Without Words: Symbolic Communication in the Chartist Movement
CLASS WITHOUT WORDS: SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT* Paul A. Pickering Paul A. Pickering La Trobe UniversityMelbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar This is a revised version of a paper presented to a combined Victorian universities seminar in modern British history, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, March 1984. I wish to express my gratitude to those who participated in discussion after…
The Hearts of the Millions’: Chartism and Popular Monarchism in the 1840s
Despite the emergence of an abrasive sense of class‐consciousness during the 1830s, an investigation into the Chartists’ attitudes to monarchy highlights the limits of their challenge. For most Chartists the queen was not the problem. While some Chartists saw a positive role for the ‘pre‐Bagehot monarchy’ in attaining the Charter, others had discovered Bagehot's circumscribed monarchy long before he had. This recognition of the queen's supra‐poli…
Songs for the Millions: Chartist Music and Popular Aural Tradition
Songs and singing, and music making more generally, are a neglected aspect of the social culture of Chartism. Many of the Chartist musings that have been treated as poetry by scholars were, in fact, lyrics for songs with identifiable melodies which drew on a rich aural tradition in popular culture. Chartist rituals almost invariably involved music as well as speech; the ranks of the movement were filled with musicians. The music they made, in its…
Ripe for a republic’: British radical responses to the eureka stockade
From the moment that the news arrived in Melbourne, the Eureka stockade has been repeatedly described, analysed and contested. Surprisingly there has been little attempt to explore reactions to the rebellion in the wider British world of which the young colony of Victoria was a part. By examining the response of British radicals to the events in Ballarat this article illustrates how they sought to contribute to and learn from the actions of their…
Chartism and the ‘Trade of Agitation’ in Early Victorian Britain
The Charter has been fruitful in many things ‐ much honesty, much patience, much usefulness and much quackery. There is a number of degraded men attached to the noble army of Chartists, who think how they can best live by the Charter. They invent blacking, and call it Chartist blacking; they make broadcloth, and appeal to the patriotism of Chartists to clothe their nakedness in none but Chartist materials. I have no doubt that we shall have every…
A New Terror to Death: Public Memory and the Disappearance of John Dunmore Lang
John Dunmore Lang was one the most prominent figures in Australian colonial politics. As the founder of the Scots Church in Sydney, a long-serving member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the editor of his own newspapers and the author of hundreds of books and pamphlets, Lang had an enormous platform to express his views. Despite his prominence in life, Lang’s legacy has been distorted by public memory and his passionate support for an …
The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Radicalism in the British World
This article explores John Dunmore Lang’s relationship with British radicals and, in particular, his attempts to promote a scheme to grow cotton in the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales. Lang belies the notion of a tyranny of distance; he is also an ideal case study of radicalism in the wider British world. His promise of an international humanitarian crusade against slavery in North America stands in stark contrast to his attitude to the f…
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective
Ann's book on the Australian Freedom Ride of 1965, published in the same year, 2002, was initially conceived as a national, or even local, history project.Her aim was to explore a very specific political movement -its antecedents, multiple character, tensions, and effects.The Freedom Ride was a two week event in which university students, mainly non-Indigenous but with an Indigenous leader, Charles Perkins, travelled around country towns in New S…
UK-Australian Labour History Conference, Manchester, 16-18 July 2003
Held at the adjacent campuses of Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University in weather more like an Australian summer than is usual for Manchester (even in summer), this Conference brought together well known practitioners of 'labour history' in Australia and Britain, some 'early career researchers' and, most encouragingly, some graduate students. Ostensibly it might appear as if the Conference was a by-product of what is nowada…
Class Without Words: Symbolic Communication in the Chartist Movement
CLASS WITHOUT WORDS: SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT* Paul A. Pickering Paul A. Pickering La Trobe UniversityMelbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar This is a revised version of a paper presented to a combined Victorian universities seminar in modern British history, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, March 1984. I wish to express my gratitude to those who participated in discussion after…
Chartism and the ‘Trade of Agitation’ in Early Victorian Britain
The Charter has been fruitful in many things ‐ much honesty, much patience, much usefulness and much quackery. There is a number of degraded men attached to the noble army of Chartists, who think how they can best live by the Charter. They invent blacking, and call it Chartist blacking; they make broadcloth, and appeal to the patriotism of Chartists to clothe their nakedness in none but Chartist materials. I have no doubt that we shall have every…
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth Century England
Glimpses of Eternal Truth: Chartism, Poetry and the Young H.R. Nicholls
The Class of 96: A Biographical Analysis of New Government Members of the Australian House of Representatives
The 1996 federal election brought thirty‐six new government members into the House of Representatives. The size of the "Class of 96" provides an opportunity for a comparison of biographical characteristics, looking for common experiences and backgrounds, as well as for an exploration of similarities and differences with previous cohorts of Coalition MPs. This examination will suggest that, in biographical terms, the "Class of 96" represents a sig…
Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford
And Your Petitioners &c: Chartist Petitioning in Popular Politics 1838-48
AT nine o'clock on Monday morning, 2 May 1842, many thousands of Londoners began to assemble at various points in the metropolis to play their part in what the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, described as a 'novel .. . and dangerous experiment' -marching on the House of Commons to present a National Petition praying 'that a nation's wrongs should be redressed'. 1 By eleven o'clock, amidst bright sunshine, the various local and regi…
JAS review of books
Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 218, pb S49.95. ISBN 0522850367. John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 176, pb $29.95. ISBN 0868407569 John Carroll, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe Publications, pp 106, pb $16.95. ISBN 0908011849. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: G…
Ripe for a republic’: British radical responses to the eureka stockade
From the moment that the news arrived in Melbourne, the Eureka stockade has been repeatedly described, analysed and contested. Surprisingly there has been little attempt to explore reactions to the rebellion in the wider British world of which the young colony of Victoria was a part. By examining the response of British radicals to the events in Ballarat this article illustrates how they sought to contribute to and learn from the actions of their…
The Hearts of the Millions’: Chartism and Popular Monarchism in the 1840s
Despite the emergence of an abrasive sense of class‐consciousness during the 1830s, an investigation into the Chartists’ attitudes to monarchy highlights the limits of their challenge. For most Chartists the queen was not the problem. While some Chartists saw a positive role for the ‘pre‐Bagehot monarchy’ in attaining the Charter, others had discovered Bagehot's circumscribed monarchy long before he had. This recognition of the queen's supra‐poli…
UK-Australian Labour History Conference, Manchester, 16-18 July 2003
Held at the adjacent campuses of Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University in weather more like an Australian summer than is usual for Manchester (even in summer), this Conference brought together well known practitioners of 'labour history' in Australia and Britain, some 'early career researchers' and, most encouragingly, some graduate students. Ostensibly it might appear as if the Conference was a by-product of what is nowada…
Jas review of books
Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985. Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834. Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958. Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Life, Carlton, MUP, 2003, pp 322, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850782. Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Mem…
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
An Afterthought: Why we should tell stories of the British World
According to the Royal Mail, Britons \npost approximately 10 million Christmas \ncards to Australia every year.1 This extraordinary \nvolume of seasonal felicitations \nis a reminder that at its core the British \nworld is a corporeal system
Was the 'Southern Tree of Liberty' an Oak
Sometimes some important thesis are not published due to certain reasons. This affects the scholarships and historical understanding. This paper discusses a book called'Southern Tree of Liberty' explaining its plus and minus points in detail
The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Radicalism in the British World
This article explores John Dunmore Lang’s relationship with British radicals and, in particular, his attempts to promote a scheme to grow cotton in the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales. Lang belies the notion of a tyranny of distance; he is also an ideal case study of radicalism in the wider British world. His promise of an international humanitarian crusade against slavery in North America stands in stark contrast to his attitude to the f…
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas and Institutions in Historical Perspective ‐ By Cheryl Schonhardt‐Bailey
Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective
Ann's book on the Australian Freedom Ride of 1965, published in the same year, 2002, was initially conceived as a national, or even local, history project.Her aim was to explore a very specific political movement -its antecedents, multiple character, tensions, and effects.The Freedom Ride was a two week event in which university students, mainly non-Indigenous but with an Indigenous leader, Charles Perkins, travelled around country towns in New S…
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, 1981-1990, A-K
Conserving the People’s History: Lessons From Manchester and Salford
The closest that Margaret Thatcher comes \nto an admission of failure in her voluminous \npolitical memoirs concerns her efforts to \npromote history as a subject for school \nchildren. Ironically, however, one of the \nacknowledged legacies of the Thatcher years, \na by-product of the transformation of the \nBritish economy from manufacturing to \nservices under her stewardship, is the proliferation \nof museums and historical precincts that \np…
Monuments and Commemorations: A Consideration
When William Charles Wentworth, \nthe leading conservative politician \nin the colony of New South Wales, retired \nfrom public life in order to travel to \nBritain in 1853, he informed his devoted \nfollowers that he would ‘accept no \ntestimonial except in the form of a colossal \nstatue of his person to be placed in some \nvery conspicuous part of Sydney’. \nAccording to the report in a hostile \nnewspaper, Wentworth issued this \ndemand so th…
Songs for the Millions: Chartist Music and Popular Aural Tradition
Songs and singing, and music making more generally, are a neglected aspect of the social culture of Chartism. Many of the Chartist musings that have been treated as poetry by scholars were, in fact, lyrics for songs with identifiable melodies which drew on a rich aural tradition in popular culture. Chartist rituals almost invariably involved music as well as speech; the ranks of the movement were filled with musicians. The music they made, in its…
From Rifle Club to Reading Room: Sydney's Democratic Vistas, 1848-1856
The history of Chartism outside Britain remains one of the most neglected aspects of scholarship devoted to the movement. This article explores the story of two loosely connected organizations in Sydney, New South Wales, that were established by former radicals and Chartists and inspired by ideas and aspirations best understood under the rubric ‘Chartism and Something More’. Sydney's democrats, like many others throughout the Anglophone world, he…
A New Terror to Death: Public Memory and the Disappearance of John Dunmore Lang
John Dunmore Lang was one the most prominent figures in Australian colonial politics. As the founder of the Scots Church in Sydney, a long-serving member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the editor of his own newspapers and the author of hundreds of books and pamphlets, Lang had an enormous platform to express his views. Despite his prominence in life, Lang’s legacy has been distorted by public memory and his passionate support for an …
Debate: Terry Irving and Paul Pickering
Terry Irving responds to Paul Pickering's criticism of his work in a recent issue of LHR, followed by the latter's rejoinder. The exchange is part of a wider discussion between them about ‘Chartism and something more’ in the context of colonial Australia. Irving criticizes the ‘British world’ focus of Pickering's work because it underplays the material forces and practices that reveal the situation-specific meaning of political ideas; Pickering c…
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