The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island

Ann Curthoys is an honorary professor at the University of Western Australia and the University of Sydney and is Professor Emerita at the Australian National University where she was the Manning Clark Chair of Australian History from 1995 to 2008. She has written on many aspects of Australian history and specialises in women’s history and Aboriginal history including key works on Aboriginal labour history and genocide studies. Her books include Freedom Ride: A Freedomrider Remembers (2002), winner of the AIATSIS Stanner Prize in 2003, and, with Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830 - 1890 (2018). Shino Konishi is an Aboriginal historian and descends from the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia. She is an associate professor in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University and is author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012). Konishi is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Fellowship, funded by the Australian Government, and is leading a collaborative research project on Indigenous biography. Alexandra Ludewig is Professor of German Studies and the Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of a German-language book about the Internment Camp on Rottnest Island during World War One: Zwischen Korallenriff und Stacheldraht. Interniert auf Rottnest 1914-1915 (2015) and Wartime on Wadjemup: A Social History of the Rottnest Island Internment Camp (2019). Moreover, as a Rottnest Volunteer Guide, she has a long association with the island both as a visitor and guide.

Introduction

1. Willem de Vlamingh: Explorer, 1696–1697

2. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: Prison Superintendent and Prison Matron, 1839–1845

3. Jane Elizabeth Green: Female Prisoner, 1840–1842

4. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: The Later Years, 1846–1866

5. Lady Mary Anne Barker: The Governor’s Wife, 1883–1884

6. Benjamin, Bob Thomas, Brandy, Yadthee, Harry, Jumbo, and Weeti Weeti: The Commission of Inquiry Attestants, 1881–1887

7. Karl Lehmann and Martin Trojan: Civilian Internees, 1914–1915

8. Herman August Kuring: Commandant, 1940–1941

9. Fay Sullivan: Nurse and Host to Holidaymakers, 1960–1984

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