Emma Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 519260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6193-0082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychosocial and Forensic Characteristics of Adult Mental Health Patients Referred to an Australian Secure Extended Care Unit and Predictors of Acceptance
INTRODUCTION: Secure extended care units (SECUs) are low-secure locked inpatient units. They are considered the most restrictive intervention within the continuum of mental health rehabilitation programmes for patients within non-forensic public mental health services. Limited information about psychosocial and forensic aspects of patients referred to such units is available. AIM: This study explored the psychosocial and forensic characteristics …
Social demographics and clinical characteristics of referred adult mental health patients to an Australian secure extended care unit: A 5-year retrospective study
Introduction: Secure Extended Care Units (SECU) offer low-secure, long-term inpatient rehabilitation for patients with severe mental illnesses. Limited research is available about the profile of patients referred to such units. Objective: This study aimed to explore the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients referred to Austin Health SECU over a 5-year period in Australia. Methods: A retrospective study design was used to inves…
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
A Global North: Transfers, Exchanges and Transnational Links Between Victoria and South Yorkshire, 1880–1914
This article seeks to establish transnational links between South Yorkshire and the colony of Victoria in Australia during the late nineteenth-century. Examining definitions of ‘northernness’ and challenging arguments that depict northern identity and culture as inward-looking, it explores the relative absence of ‘northernness’ in narratives of migration and makes the case for the interconnection of ideas, events and individuals across cultural, …
The girl conductor has come to stay”: Gender and labour on the buses in interwar Australia
In the early 1920s, “Lady Bus Conductors” were recruited for the first time in Melbourne, Australia. They were employed by private companies, who entered into competition with the public-funded urban transport sector. Combining labour and cultural history approaches, this article draws on newspapers, photographs and union archives to develop an original gendered analysis of the interwar motorbus industry. It argues that women's labour underpinned…
Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914
The Bryant & May company is well known for its operations in Britain. Historians have paid less attention to the actions of the company overseas. The opening of a new Australian subsidiary factory in 1909 marked an early venture in multinational manufacturing within the British Empire. This article uses business records and newspapers from both the British and Australian archives to examine the day-to-day operations of this multinational, with a …
Gendering transnational radio: Women listeners and the BBC Empire and Overseas Services, 1932-1967
The BBC World Service, today a respected broadcaster on the global stage, had its origins in the BBC Empire Service of the 1930s. Shortwave radio broadcasts from London explicitly targeted isolated white men in the geographically dispersed British colonies and dominions, with the intention of strengthening them in their imperial endeavours. BBC staff positioned women at the margins of programming and scheduling decisions. Yet for some women liste…
One Voice, Many Accents? The BBC and Empire After the Second World War
Against the backdrop of imperial retreat, Johnston and Robertson focus on the work of the General Overseas Service and how the BBC responded to nationalist and independence movements in the British Empire. Particular attention is given to the BBC’s changing relationship with British exiles and its (post)colonial listeners. Johnston and Robertson argue that in this febrile environment, the independence and autonomy of the BBC were challenged by fo…
BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018
When Women Do the Work of Men: Representations of Gendered Occupational Identities on British Railways in World War I Cartoons
During World War I in Britain, women workers took on previously men-only jobs on the railways. In response to this wartime development, the National Union of Railwaymen published a series of cartoons in their journal, Railway Review . These images depicted women employed as porters and guards, occupying the engine footplate, and acting in the role of station-mistress. Through a close reading of the cartoons, and related images in the journal, thi…
The Isolated Men in the Back of Beyond’: Masculinity and the BBC Empire Service, 1932–45
Chocolate, women and empire: A social and cultural history
Chocolate remains a mythic product, a symbol both of luxury and of a fantasy world of exoticism, yet also (for many) a workaday requirement providing energy and nutrition. This book concentrates on three key stages of chocolate production in the British empire: growing cocoa beans, manufacturing chocolate from these beans, and the marketing of chocolate products. It begins with the romantic construction of chocolate, redresses the gender imbalanc…
Belles from Bristol and Bournville in New Surroundings: Female Confectionery Workers as Transnational Agents, 1918-1928
In existing histories of the development of multinational business, women are usually absent. Yet when the British confectionery companies of Cadbury, Fry and Pascall took the bold step to build an entirely new factory in Tasmania in the early 1920s, women workers were important, and mobile, actors. This article draws on business history archives and genealogical material, from both Britain and Australia, to explore how a select group of British …
Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541–1954
In this ambitious new work of imperial history, Saliha Belmessous charts the relationship between empire building and the ideology of assimilation across continents and across centuries. Rather tha
Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire Tony Ballantyne & Antoinette Burton (Eds)
"Moving Subjects: gender, mobility and intimacy in an age of global empire TONY BALLANTYNE & ANTOINETTE BURTON (Eds)." Women's History Review, 22(3), pp. 497–498
Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
This is an intellectually rigorous collection of essays investigating the nature of ‘Englishness’ both within and beyond national borders. The geographical and chronological scope of the book is wide, taking in Ireland, South Africa, India, the Middle East, and the United States, as well as England, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Although the focus in several chapters is on literature and literary concepts, the work as a whole…
The last British work songs: Music, community and class in the Kent hop fields of the early-mid 20th century
This article examines the widespread practice of singing during the picking of hops in the Kent hop fields from the 1920s through to the 1950s. The singing is analysed both in terms of its position as a late, rare and therefore potentially revealing example of British work songs in the 20th century, and in terms of the light it casts on the musical culture of the singers, working class women of London’s East End. It is argued that the songs expre…
And Spinning So With Voices Meet, Like Nightingales They Sung Full Sweet’: Unravelling Representations of Singing in Pre-Industrial Textile Production
This article examines the relationship between music and work in pre-industrial textile production and the ways in which it has been conceived and represented. Focusing on the processes of lace making, spinning and weaving, we consider whether working conditions were conducive to music making and the nature of the music being performed. In so doing we unpick idealized conceptions of singing by pre-industrial workers, studying music as taking plac…
I get a real kick out of big ben: BBC Versions of Britishness on the Empire and General Overseas Service, 1932-1948
Mass media and propaganda in the making of Cold War Europe, University College Dublin, 11–13 January 2007
Fuelled by the opening up of archives in the former Soviet Union, eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, two of the more recent developments in scholarship on the Cold War are a greater un
Harmonious relations? Music at work in the Rowntree and Cadbury factories
The history of music in the workplace is a neglected area of study. This article explores the policies towards music in the paternalist Rowntree and Cadbury confectionery factories from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. We argue that the two firms were pioneering in their early use of music before becoming key players in the industrial welfare movement following the First World War. The broadcasting of music by Rowntree and Cadbu…
We Sang Ourselves Through That War: Women, Music and Factory Work in World War Two
This paper examines the role of music in women's experience of factory work in the Second World War — an important topic but one largely overlooked in the existing literature. Two important forms of music flourished in war factories — the relaying of Music While You Work through loudspeakers, and the collective singing of workgroups. Drawing on a range of sources, the paper shows that music served to both express and create community in the workp…
Antenatal risk factors for postpartum depression: A synthesis of recent literature
New Zealand students: Risk behaviours while on holiday
The Spanish Town Papers: Some Sidelights on the American War of Independence
Journal Article The Spanish Town Papers: Some Sidelights on the American War of Independence. By E. Arnot Robertson and Captains to the Northward: The New England Captains in the Continental Navy. By William James Morgan Get access Robert Neil McLarty Robert Neil McLarty Eastern Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 1, June 1960, Pages 114–115, ht…
New Zealand students: Risk behaviours while on holiday
I get a real kick out of big ben: BBC Versions of Britishness on the Empire and General Overseas Service, 1932-1948
We Sang Ourselves Through That War: Women, Music and Factory Work in World War Two
This paper examines the role of music in women's experience of factory work in the Second World War — an important topic but one largely overlooked in the existing literature. Two important forms of music flourished in war factories — the relaying of Music While You Work through loudspeakers, and the collective singing of workgroups. Drawing on a range of sources, the paper shows that music served to both express and create community in the workp…
BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018
Chocolate, women and empire: A social and cultural history
Chocolate remains a mythic product, a symbol both of luxury and of a fantasy world of exoticism, yet also (for many) a workaday requirement providing energy and nutrition. This book concentrates on three key stages of chocolate production in the British empire: growing cocoa beans, manufacturing chocolate from these beans, and the marketing of chocolate products. It begins with the romantic construction of chocolate, redresses the gender imbalanc…
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
When Women Do the Work of Men: Representations of Gendered Occupational Identities on British Railways in World War I Cartoons
During World War I in Britain, women workers took on previously men-only jobs on the railways. In response to this wartime development, the National Union of Railwaymen published a series of cartoons in their journal, Railway Review . These images depicted women employed as porters and guards, occupying the engine footplate, and acting in the role of station-mistress. Through a close reading of the cartoons, and related images in the journal, thi…
The last British work songs: Music, community and class in the Kent hop fields of the early-mid 20th century
This article examines the widespread practice of singing during the picking of hops in the Kent hop fields from the 1920s through to the 1950s. The singing is analysed both in terms of its position as a late, rare and therefore potentially revealing example of British work songs in the 20th century, and in terms of the light it casts on the musical culture of the singers, working class women of London’s East End. It is argued that the songs expre…
Harmonious relations? Music at work in the Rowntree and Cadbury factories
The history of music in the workplace is a neglected area of study. This article explores the policies towards music in the paternalist Rowntree and Cadbury confectionery factories from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. We argue that the two firms were pioneering in their early use of music before becoming key players in the industrial welfare movement following the First World War. The broadcasting of music by Rowntree and Cadbu…
The Spanish Town Papers: Some Sidelights on the American War of Independence
Journal Article The Spanish Town Papers: Some Sidelights on the American War of Independence. By E. Arnot Robertson and Captains to the Northward: The New England Captains in the Continental Navy. By William James Morgan Get access Robert Neil McLarty Robert Neil McLarty Eastern Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 1, June 1960, Pages 114–115, ht…
New Zealand students: Risk behaviours while on holiday
Antenatal risk factors for postpartum depression: A synthesis of recent literature
We Sang Ourselves Through That War: Women, Music and Factory Work in World War Two
This paper examines the role of music in women's experience of factory work in the Second World War — an important topic but one largely overlooked in the existing literature. Two important forms of music flourished in war factories — the relaying of Music While You Work through loudspeakers, and the collective singing of workgroups. Drawing on a range of sources, the paper shows that music served to both express and create community in the workp…
Mass media and propaganda in the making of Cold War Europe, University College Dublin, 11–13 January 2007
Fuelled by the opening up of archives in the former Soviet Union, eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, two of the more recent developments in scholarship on the Cold War are a greater un
Harmonious relations? Music at work in the Rowntree and Cadbury factories
The history of music in the workplace is a neglected area of study. This article explores the policies towards music in the paternalist Rowntree and Cadbury confectionery factories from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. We argue that the two firms were pioneering in their early use of music before becoming key players in the industrial welfare movement following the First World War. The broadcasting of music by Rowntree and Cadbu…
The last British work songs: Music, community and class in the Kent hop fields of the early-mid 20th century
This article examines the widespread practice of singing during the picking of hops in the Kent hop fields from the 1920s through to the 1950s. The singing is analysed both in terms of its position as a late, rare and therefore potentially revealing example of British work songs in the 20th century, and in terms of the light it casts on the musical culture of the singers, working class women of London’s East End. It is argued that the songs expre…
And Spinning So With Voices Meet, Like Nightingales They Sung Full Sweet’: Unravelling Representations of Singing in Pre-Industrial Textile Production
This article examines the relationship between music and work in pre-industrial textile production and the ways in which it has been conceived and represented. Focusing on the processes of lace making, spinning and weaving, we consider whether working conditions were conducive to music making and the nature of the music being performed. In so doing we unpick idealized conceptions of singing by pre-industrial workers, studying music as taking plac…
I get a real kick out of big ben: BBC Versions of Britishness on the Empire and General Overseas Service, 1932-1948
Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
This is an intellectually rigorous collection of essays investigating the nature of ‘Englishness’ both within and beyond national borders. The geographical and chronological scope of the book is wide, taking in Ireland, South Africa, India, the Middle East, and the United States, as well as England, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Although the focus in several chapters is on literature and literary concepts, the work as a whole…
Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire Tony Ballantyne & Antoinette Burton (Eds)
"Moving Subjects: gender, mobility and intimacy in an age of global empire TONY BALLANTYNE & ANTOINETTE BURTON (Eds)." Women's History Review, 22(3), pp. 497–498
Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541–1954
In this ambitious new work of imperial history, Saliha Belmessous charts the relationship between empire building and the ideology of assimilation across continents and across centuries. Rather tha
Belles from Bristol and Bournville in New Surroundings: Female Confectionery Workers as Transnational Agents, 1918-1928
In existing histories of the development of multinational business, women are usually absent. Yet when the British confectionery companies of Cadbury, Fry and Pascall took the bold step to build an entirely new factory in Tasmania in the early 1920s, women workers were important, and mobile, actors. This article draws on business history archives and genealogical material, from both Britain and Australia, to explore how a select group of British …
The Isolated Men in the Back of Beyond’: Masculinity and the BBC Empire Service, 1932–45
Chocolate, women and empire: A social and cultural history
Chocolate remains a mythic product, a symbol both of luxury and of a fantasy world of exoticism, yet also (for many) a workaday requirement providing energy and nutrition. This book concentrates on three key stages of chocolate production in the British empire: growing cocoa beans, manufacturing chocolate from these beans, and the marketing of chocolate products. It begins with the romantic construction of chocolate, redresses the gender imbalanc…
One Voice, Many Accents? The BBC and Empire After the Second World War
Against the backdrop of imperial retreat, Johnston and Robertson focus on the work of the General Overseas Service and how the BBC responded to nationalist and independence movements in the British Empire. Particular attention is given to the BBC’s changing relationship with British exiles and its (post)colonial listeners. Johnston and Robertson argue that in this febrile environment, the independence and autonomy of the BBC were challenged by fo…
BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018
When Women Do the Work of Men: Representations of Gendered Occupational Identities on British Railways in World War I Cartoons
During World War I in Britain, women workers took on previously men-only jobs on the railways. In response to this wartime development, the National Union of Railwaymen published a series of cartoons in their journal, Railway Review . These images depicted women employed as porters and guards, occupying the engine footplate, and acting in the role of station-mistress. Through a close reading of the cartoons, and related images in the journal, thi…
Gendering transnational radio: Women listeners and the BBC Empire and Overseas Services, 1932-1967
The BBC World Service, today a respected broadcaster on the global stage, had its origins in the BBC Empire Service of the 1930s. Shortwave radio broadcasts from London explicitly targeted isolated white men in the geographically dispersed British colonies and dominions, with the intention of strengthening them in their imperial endeavours. BBC staff positioned women at the margins of programming and scheduling decisions. Yet for some women liste…
Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914
The Bryant & May company is well known for its operations in Britain. Historians have paid less attention to the actions of the company overseas. The opening of a new Australian subsidiary factory in 1909 marked an early venture in multinational manufacturing within the British Empire. This article uses business records and newspapers from both the British and Australian archives to examine the day-to-day operations of this multinational, with a …
The girl conductor has come to stay”: Gender and labour on the buses in interwar Australia
In the early 1920s, “Lady Bus Conductors” were recruited for the first time in Melbourne, Australia. They were employed by private companies, who entered into competition with the public-funded urban transport sector. Combining labour and cultural history approaches, this article draws on newspapers, photographs and union archives to develop an original gendered analysis of the interwar motorbus industry. It argues that women's labour underpinned…
A Global North: Transfers, Exchanges and Transnational Links Between Victoria and South Yorkshire, 1880–1914
This article seeks to establish transnational links between South Yorkshire and the colony of Victoria in Australia during the late nineteenth-century. Examining definitions of ‘northernness’ and challenging arguments that depict northern identity and culture as inward-looking, it explores the relative absence of ‘northernness’ in narratives of migration and makes the case for the interconnection of ideas, events and individuals across cultural, …
Social demographics and clinical characteristics of referred adult mental health patients to an Australian secure extended care unit: A 5-year retrospective study
Introduction: Secure Extended Care Units (SECU) offer low-secure, long-term inpatient rehabilitation for patients with severe mental illnesses. Limited research is available about the profile of patients referred to such units. Objective: This study aimed to explore the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients referred to Austin Health SECU over a 5-year period in Australia. Methods: A retrospective study design was used to inves…
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
Psychosocial and Forensic Characteristics of Adult Mental Health Patients Referred to an Australian Secure Extended Care Unit and Predictors of Acceptance
INTRODUCTION: Secure extended care units (SECUs) are low-secure locked inpatient units. They are considered the most restrictive intervention within the continuum of mental health rehabilitation programmes for patients within non-forensic public mental health services. Limited information about psychosocial and forensic aspects of patients referred to such units is available. AIM: This study explored the psychosocial and forensic characteristics …
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