Professor Brian Fletcher papers, 1949-ca 2016

MLMSS 9722

fonds

1949-ca 2016

Textual Records, Clippings

1336673

2.80 metres of textual material (17 boxes) - manuscript (typescript)

Brian Hinton Fletcher was born in 1931 and began his career as a High School teacher.
In 1957 he gained a Teaching Fellow and temporary Lecturer position in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, followed by an appointment to a Lectureship in History at the University of New South Wales in 1960. He was there until 1973 when he returned to Sydney University as a Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor in 1977. In 1988 was appointed to the Bicentennial Chair of Australian History. He has participated, and held positions, in various committees, such as, Modern History Syllabus Committee, Examination Committee, History Teachers Association NSW, Royal Australian Historical Society, and the Federation of Australian Historical Society. He retired in 2000 and was awarded the titled of Emeritus for his long and distinguished service to the University of Sydney. Professor Fletcher is also the recipient of the New South Wales History Council's Citation for 2007 in recognition of a lifetime of significant contribution by an individual to the profession and the practice of history. In 2012 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to education as an academic, researcher and author in the discipline of Australian history.
In retirement he is actively involved in a research programme, has published extensively on Australian history and delivered many papers and talks to conferences and groups.

Reference:

Australian Academy of Humanities
http://www.humanities.org.au/ (accessed 29.9.2015)
Library Correspondence File

Includes material relating to Brian Fletcher's early higher education to the development of the School of History at the UNSW and the History Department at the University of Sydney. Also involvement with the Higher School Certificate modern history committees, participation with religious bodies, membership of various committees, correspondence and other material related to publications, conferences, copies of talks to community groups and conferences.

Box 1

University of New South Wales, 1965-1972.

Dr Brian Fletcher's Curriculum Vitae
Courses in History 1 and History 11 (Hons)
Courses in History 1
Correspondence re Courses
Correspondence re course in Australian Studies
Reports of Staff Meetings
Applications for Study Leave
Letters from Professor F.K Crowley to me in England 1967
Annual Letters of Appreciation from Professor F.K. Crowley
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
Award of PhD
Application for Senior Lectureship, Macquarie University
Breach of Security in School of History

Box 2


University of Sydney, 1949-1953.

Copies of my undergraduate essays
Copy of my History 1V (Hons) History Thesis
Printed copies of Notes issued to History 11 and History 111 students

Box 3

University of Sydney, 1972-1990.

Appointment to Senior Lectureship 1972
Letters sent to England during my 1974 Study Leave
Application for promotion to Associate Professor
Application for appointment to Chair of History at Macquarie University
Appointment to Bicentennial Chair of Australian History 1987
Letters of congratulation on appointment to Bicentennial Chair
Details of Study Leave
Death of Professor J.M. Ward in Brooklyn Train Disaster

Box 4

University of Sydney, 1972-1997.

Proposal for Australian History in Second Year
Courses on Convict Australia
History 111 Australian History Courses
Courses on Aboriginal History
History 1V (Hons) courses
Courses for MA (by coursework) students
MA in Australian History: proposed programme

Box 5

University of Sydney, 1992-2007.

Copies of History Department Weekly Bulletin
Letters of thanks from Students
Students Responses to Questionnaires re courses
Citation from New South Wales History Council
Award Hon. Dr of Letters for Mollie Gillen, distinguished graduate and author

Box 6

Involvement with Higher School Certificate Modern History Committees, 1972-1980.

Correspondence as Chair of Modern History Higher School Certificate Committee
Syllabus Revision 1977 discussion re introduction of Options
Meetings of Syllabus Committee 1972-1978
Meetings Syllabus Committee 1984 and resultant controversies
Work as Co-editor Teaching History

Box 7

Work for Anglican Church and other organisations, 1971-2012.

Anglican History Seminars 1995-2000
Prayer Book Society: meetings and talks 2010-2012
Moore Theological College
Australian Society for European History 1971-1972
Royal Australian Historical Society
Federation of Australian Historical Societies

Box 8

Membership of various committees, ca 1980-2008.

Sydney/Oxford University Press Board
Council of State Library of New South Wales
Member of Archives Authority
Member of Committee of Friends of State Library
Member Committees appointed to review history courses at various Colleges of Advanced Education
Member of committee appointed to plan for Chifley University
Member Governing Body University of Western Sydney
Vice-President Arthur Phillip Society
Chair Henry Parkes Foundation

Box 9

Publications (correspondence and other material arranged chronologically), 1960-1993.

Endeavour and Achievement
Australian Dictionary of Biography Articles
French Revolution
James Atkinson: Account of the state of agriculture and grazing in New South Wales
Landed Enterprise and Penal Society
D.D. Mann: Present Picture of New South Wales
Colonial Australia before 1850
Ralph Darling: A Governor Maligned
Correspondence re above mostly with College of Heralds
The Origins of Australian Capital Cities
Bicentennial History Project
Henry Dumaresq
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia

Box 10

Publications (further correspondence and other material), 1986-1997.

Sydney Morning Herald Book Reviews
Bicentennial History Project
The Grand Parade: A History of Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales)
Sydney University History Department Centennial Exhibition
Encyclopedia Britannica
Department of History Centennial Conference
Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta, Papers for Bicentenary
Article on Convicts for History Today, October 1992
Australian History in New South Wales 1888-1938
Australia’s First: History of University of Sydney
History of Sydney Teachers College
History and Achievements: A Portrait of the Honours Students of Professor G. A. Wood
Foreword for book on Freycinet

Box 11

Publications, 1960-1993.

Chronicle of Australia
Oxford Companion to Australian History
Morpeth Theological College Lecture on Bishop Francis de Witt Batty
Chapter on Canberra for Hauptstädte und Globsl Cities
Contribution to Encyclopedia of Historians
Contributions to Bruce Kaye (ed) Anglicanism in Australia: A History
Obituaries of Leading Historians
Articles for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Correspondence re Place of Anglicanism in Austral[a
Achieving for Others: The Rotary Club of Sydney 1921-2005
Magnificent Obsession: The Story of the Mitchell Library,
The Governors of New South Wales

Box 12

Publications, 1991-2009.

Mitchell Library Centenary History
J.M. Ward: The State and the People (edited version)
Contribution to Agendas for Australian Anglicanism: Essays in Honour of Bruce Kaye
Correspondence: Sing a New Song: Australian Hymnody and the renewal of the church since the 1960s

Box 13

Conferences, 1972-1988.

Executive Secretary Section 26 (History) ANZAAS Conferences 1972
Executive Secretary Australian Historical Society Conference 1976
Preparing for Cultural Conference, Parramatta, 1988
Aarhus (Denmark) Australian Studies Conference 1988

Box 14

Conferences, 1993-2010.

Australian Studies Conference, St David’s College, Lampeter, Wales 1993
Historic Houses Conference 1993
Malardalen University (Sweden) Conference 1994
World History Conference, Florence, 1995
Brisbane, Anglican History Conference 2010

Box 15

Talks to Community Groups, 1988-1999.

These talks, each in typed format, cover the period from 1988 until 1999. They are arranged in the order in which they were given and provide details of the group to whom they were delivered a well as the date. Some were delivered to mark celebratory events such as the Bicentenary of European settlement in 1988. Others deal with a wide range of topics mostly linked to early colonial New South Wales, such as, the controversy over settlement, the differences of opinion concerning the character of the convicts, the early governors and so on. All were delivered at the invitation of the group concerned.

Box 16

Talks to Community Groups, 2000-2013.

Lectures on a wide range of topics covering the years 2000 to 2013, as well as, a bundle of lectures each relating to the history of Anglicanism mainly in Australia. A small handful, delivered to the Prayer Book Society are fairly specialised and relate to the Book of Common Prayer. Most, however, are linked by a desire to show how Anglicanism shaped the course of Australian history, thereby exploring a field that has been greatly neglected.

Box 17

Miscellaneous undated lectures.
Coming to terms with Australia: the reminiscences of an English-born Professor of Australian History by Brian H. Fletcher.

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Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which Dr Brian Fletcher owns copyright. He has assigned the copyright in materials in this collection to the State Library of NSW.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy Dr Brian Fletcher