Tanja Luckins
Biographic Data
| ID | 2058036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanja Luckins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Luckins |
| SIGNATURE | LUCKINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place
The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia’s history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time, Australia has been shaped by many peoples with competing visions of what the future might hold. This new…
Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place
Manifest destiny
The War at Home: Volume 4 The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The War at Home: Volume 4 The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), p. 322
Dissolving views, memory and sensory experience: The Cosmopoligraphicon or the ‘World in Many Pictures’ in Melbourne, Australia, in 1855
While magic lanterns and dissolving views were a global phenomenon in the nineteenth century, scholars are only starting to examine in depth their social dimensions. This article seeks to extend our understanding of dissolving views by analysing the audience sensory experience in a specific historical context – gold rush Melbourne in 1855. It argues that while a Melbourne audience admired the technological wonder of the magic lantern and the diss…
To Make the Past Present, to Bring the Distant Near’: Affective History and Historical Distance in The War That Changed Us
The television documentary-drama The War That Changed Us (TWTCU, 2014), one of the first publicly funded commemorations of the centenary of the First World War, traces the transformative experiences of six Australians in the war. It does so with a narrative guided by the dramatisation of diaries and letters against a backdrop of archival film and photographs and commentary from historians. This article analyses how the program's focus on the evoc…
Domesticating Cosmopolitanism: Charmian Clift’s Women’s Column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Herald in the 1960s
When novelist Charmian Clift returned to Australia in 1964 after 14 years in England and Greece, she was commissioned to write a women’s column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Herald. Her topics ranged widely, from food and drink, migrants and hospitality, famine and peace, children and religion, pop music and Aborigines to travel and housewives. By all accounts Clift struck a chord with her readers, her feel for connecting the vagarie…
Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia
This essay is a survey of the field of food and drink history in Australia since the 1970s. It discusses the range of research and picks out key historiographic aspects: the search for an Australian cuisine; regional food cultures; connection between sources and historical interpretation; and the interdisciplinarity of food and drink history. It suggests that as food and drink histories have broadened beyond a search for culinary traditions and a…
Flavoursome Scraps of Conversation: Talking and Hearing the Cosmopolitan City, 1900s-1960s
This article’s contribution to the sphere of urban lives and oral sources in twentieth century Australia is to conceptualise the sounds of the city within a specific framework, the cosmopolitan. Long before the advent of the contemporary cosmopolitan cafe latte lifestyle, people spoke and wrote about the cultural atmosphere of their city, perceiving the sounds generated by an eclectic mix of language, music and food to be constitutive of cosmopol…
Books
Collecting Women's Memories: The Australian War Memorial, the next of kin and Great War soldiers' diaries and letters as objects of memory in the 1920s and 1930s
Historians typically use soldiers’ diaries and letters to validate battlefield experiences. In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers’ diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia. Significantly, it was women who tended to come into possession of dead soldiers’ diaries and …
Gentrification and Cosmopolitan Leisure in Inner-Urban Melbourne, Australia, 1960s–1970s
n\t\t\t\t\tStudies of gentrification in Australia have typically analysed the phenomenon through the lens of housing and residential change. This article explores how non-residential factors, including the concept of and the everyday practices associated with cosmopolitanism, offer an opportunity to analyse leisure specific to gentrification in Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s. The article particularly explores leisure based on food and drink cul…
The Dark Pocket of Time: War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914–1935
The Dark Pocket of Time : War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914–1935. By Kate Blackmore. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2008. Pp. 276. A$39.95 paper. The popular legacy of Australia's sacrifice du
Satan finds some mischief’: Drinkers’ responses to the six o'clock closing of pubs in Australia, 1910s–1930s
n\t\t\t\t\tHistorians have typically focused on the ‘six o'clock swill’ as the pub drinker's principal response to the introduction of the early closing of pubs in most Australian states during World War I. While this focus has enhanced our understanding of gendered pub drinking practices during trading hours it has circumscribed our knowledge of the range of responses to six o'clock closing. Less frequently analysed is what the pub drinker did a…
Dining on Turtles
As gentlemen of the Royal Society in London sat down to their turtle dinner in 1793 they were participating in an historical event: an act simultaneously of fine dining and colonialism. Feasting and d
Pigs, Hogs and Aussie Blokes: The Emergence of the Term ‘Six O’Clock Swill’
‘Six o’clock swill’ is one of the best known terms in Australian history, popularly associated with the drinking practices of a fifty-year period when pubs closed at six o’clock in most Australian states. Historians have tended to link the emergence of thesix o ‘clock swill’ to the introduction of early or six o ‘clock closing during the Great War. A closer analysis suggests it was not licensing law alone which impelled its emergence but historic…
‘Winnies and pats … brighten our pubs’: Transforming the gendered spatial economy in the Australian pub, 1920–1970
The bar of the local pub was where men pursued their leisure. Those same pubs that women, 'the Rubies and Lillies and Winnies and Pats', owned, ran and worked in, and thereby brightened with their presence, did not become women's space simply because women worked there. Pubs were national icons, and, seemingly, they were patronised by men because men who drank there could access the national values of mateship and egalitarianism
Conference Reports
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Collecting Women's Memories: The Australian War Memorial, the next of kin and Great War soldiers' diaries and letters as objects of memory in the 1920s and 1930s
Historians typically use soldiers’ diaries and letters to validate battlefield experiences. In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers’ diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia. Significantly, it was women who tended to come into possession of dead soldiers’ diaries and …
Satan finds some mischief’: Drinkers’ responses to the six o'clock closing of pubs in Australia, 1910s–1930s
n\t\t\t\t\tHistorians have typically focused on the ‘six o'clock swill’ as the pub drinker's principal response to the introduction of the early closing of pubs in most Australian states during World War I. While this focus has enhanced our understanding of gendered pub drinking practices during trading hours it has circumscribed our knowledge of the range of responses to six o'clock closing. Less frequently analysed is what the pub drinker did a…
Pigs, Hogs and Aussie Blokes: The Emergence of the Term ‘Six O’Clock Swill’
‘Six o’clock swill’ is one of the best known terms in Australian history, popularly associated with the drinking practices of a fifty-year period when pubs closed at six o’clock in most Australian states. Historians have tended to link the emergence of thesix o ‘clock swill’ to the introduction of early or six o ‘clock closing during the Great War. A closer analysis suggests it was not licensing law alone which impelled its emergence but historic…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Conference Reports
‘Winnies and pats … brighten our pubs’: Transforming the gendered spatial economy in the Australian pub, 1920–1970
The bar of the local pub was where men pursued their leisure. Those same pubs that women, 'the Rubies and Lillies and Winnies and Pats', owned, ran and worked in, and thereby brightened with their presence, did not become women's space simply because women worked there. Pubs were national icons, and, seemingly, they were patronised by men because men who drank there could access the national values of mateship and egalitarianism
Dining on Turtles
As gentlemen of the Royal Society in London sat down to their turtle dinner in 1793 they were participating in an historical event: an act simultaneously of fine dining and colonialism. Feasting and d
Pigs, Hogs and Aussie Blokes: The Emergence of the Term ‘Six O’Clock Swill’
‘Six o’clock swill’ is one of the best known terms in Australian history, popularly associated with the drinking practices of a fifty-year period when pubs closed at six o’clock in most Australian states. Historians have tended to link the emergence of thesix o ‘clock swill’ to the introduction of early or six o ‘clock closing during the Great War. A closer analysis suggests it was not licensing law alone which impelled its emergence but historic…
Satan finds some mischief’: Drinkers’ responses to the six o'clock closing of pubs in Australia, 1910s–1930s
n\t\t\t\t\tHistorians have typically focused on the ‘six o'clock swill’ as the pub drinker's principal response to the introduction of the early closing of pubs in most Australian states during World War I. While this focus has enhanced our understanding of gendered pub drinking practices during trading hours it has circumscribed our knowledge of the range of responses to six o'clock closing. Less frequently analysed is what the pub drinker did a…
Gentrification and Cosmopolitan Leisure in Inner-Urban Melbourne, Australia, 1960s–1970s
n\t\t\t\t\tStudies of gentrification in Australia have typically analysed the phenomenon through the lens of housing and residential change. This article explores how non-residential factors, including the concept of and the everyday practices associated with cosmopolitanism, offer an opportunity to analyse leisure specific to gentrification in Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s. The article particularly explores leisure based on food and drink cul…
The Dark Pocket of Time: War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914–1935
The Dark Pocket of Time : War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914–1935. By Kate Blackmore. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2008. Pp. 276. A$39.95 paper. The popular legacy of Australia's sacrifice du
Flavoursome Scraps of Conversation: Talking and Hearing the Cosmopolitan City, 1900s-1960s
This article’s contribution to the sphere of urban lives and oral sources in twentieth century Australia is to conceptualise the sounds of the city within a specific framework, the cosmopolitan. Long before the advent of the contemporary cosmopolitan cafe latte lifestyle, people spoke and wrote about the cultural atmosphere of their city, perceiving the sounds generated by an eclectic mix of language, music and food to be constitutive of cosmopol…
Books
Collecting Women's Memories: The Australian War Memorial, the next of kin and Great War soldiers' diaries and letters as objects of memory in the 1920s and 1930s
Historians typically use soldiers’ diaries and letters to validate battlefield experiences. In this article the author interrupts that seamless journey from the battlefield to the archive to the history book, and treats soldiers’ diaries and letters not as texts but objects of memory, as did bereaved relatives during and after the Great War in Australia. Significantly, it was women who tended to come into possession of dead soldiers’ diaries and …
Historiographic Foodways: A Survey of Food and Drink Histories in Australia
This essay is a survey of the field of food and drink history in Australia since the 1970s. It discusses the range of research and picks out key historiographic aspects: the search for an Australian cuisine; regional food cultures; connection between sources and historical interpretation; and the interdisciplinarity of food and drink history. It suggests that as food and drink histories have broadened beyond a search for culinary traditions and a…
Domesticating Cosmopolitanism: Charmian Clift’s Women’s Column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Herald in the 1960s
When novelist Charmian Clift returned to Australia in 1964 after 14 years in England and Greece, she was commissioned to write a women’s column in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Herald. Her topics ranged widely, from food and drink, migrants and hospitality, famine and peace, children and religion, pop music and Aborigines to travel and housewives. By all accounts Clift struck a chord with her readers, her feel for connecting the vagarie…
To Make the Past Present, to Bring the Distant Near’: Affective History and Historical Distance in The War That Changed Us
The television documentary-drama The War That Changed Us (TWTCU, 2014), one of the first publicly funded commemorations of the centenary of the First World War, traces the transformative experiences of six Australians in the war. It does so with a narrative guided by the dramatisation of diaries and letters against a backdrop of archival film and photographs and commentary from historians. This article analyses how the program's focus on the evoc…
Dissolving views, memory and sensory experience: The Cosmopoligraphicon or the ‘World in Many Pictures’ in Melbourne, Australia, in 1855
While magic lanterns and dissolving views were a global phenomenon in the nineteenth century, scholars are only starting to examine in depth their social dimensions. This article seeks to extend our understanding of dissolving views by analysing the audience sensory experience in a specific historical context – gold rush Melbourne in 1855. It argues that while a Melbourne audience admired the technological wonder of the magic lantern and the diss…
The War at Home: Volume 4 The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The War at Home: Volume 4 The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), p. 322
The Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place
The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia’s history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time, Australia has been shaped by many peoples with competing visions of what the future might hold. This new…
Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place
Manifest destiny
History (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Australian History and Society (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)