Stephane Kirkland, Paris Reborn: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City (New York: Picador, 2014). While my own research is focussed on transport in Brisbane, that work is cited within two key sub-fields – transport and urban history. As I am currently getting to grips with the historiography of both... Continue Reading →
Kay Cohen, Val Donovan, Ruth Kerr, Margaret Kowald, Lyndsay Smith, and Jew Stewart, Lost Brisbane and Surrounding Areas, 1861-1960 (Brisbane, QLD: The Royal Historical Society of Queensland with QBD Bookshop, 2014) and Lost Brisbane 2 and Surrounding Areas: The Later Years (Brisbane, QLD: The Royal Historical Society of Queensland with QBD Bookshop, 2016). As with... Continue Reading →
Shane Ewen, What is Urban History? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016). One of the wonderful things about starting a new project is the need to understand the developments, debates and discussions surrounding the field in which your research is situated. This is especially true if you are stepping into a new field of research as I... Continue Reading →
One of the more regular posts I hope to make on this blog relates to the books I am now acquiring to support this project. In time, I may even review some of them on this site. Hopefully, this will give readers a bit of an insight into some of the works that will inform... Continue Reading →
A History of Transport in Brisbane 