Victorian Historical Journal DIGITAL Issue 296, Vol 92, No 2, December 2021

Description This is for the downloadable digital version of the VHJ. If you’d like to purchase the hard-copy version please click here. Reviewed books which are available in our bookshop are in bold and hyper-linked to the bookshop. So just click on the bold title.  ARTICLES Introduction by co-editors, Judith Smart and Richard Broome Statues: Putting Them Up and Pulling ‘em Down by Jim Davidson: The 2021 Weston Bate Oration Vera Deakin in War and Peace by Carole Woods Encounters in and with the Mallee 1847–1849  by Susan Priestley The Legend of ‘The Golden Horseshoes of Beechworth’: The Evidence Considered  by Mark Valentine St Leon Conscientious Non-Compliers: The Vietnam War Years  by Geoffrey A. Sandy HISTORICAL NOTES Henry Johnson: The First Identified European Settler in the Upper Goulburn River District? by Lawrie Hall People and Place of the Hissing Swan: Kaawirn Kuunawarn, Lake Connewarren, the Weatherlys and ‘Connewarran’ Station by Rod Giblett Life after Death: The Coronial Records of a Lost Victorian Goldfield  by John Schauble The Melbourne Socialite and the Turkish Diplomat: The Story of Florence Winter-Irving by Patrick Ferry and Janan Greer A KLM DC-2 Uiver Aftermath: Java Hosts the Burghers of Albury in 1935 by Noel Jackling Postscript on A.G.M. Michell, F.R.S. by Anne Marsden INTERPRETING AN IMAGE Diggers on Road to Bendigo: S.T. Gill and Women on the Victorian Diggings by Katrina Dernelley REVIEWS The Accidental Town: Castlemaine, 1851–1861. By Marjorie Theobald.  Reviewed by Charles Fahey The Ghosts Have Never Left: Victorian Gold Rush Towns and the Stories They Could Tell. By John & Marie Watt. Reviewed by Charles FaheyThe Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, a Biography. By Reg MacDonald. Reviewed by Christopher Marshall The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart. By Stuart Kells. Reviewed by Peter McPhee Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians. By Benjamin Wilkie. Reviewed by Don Garden Pentridge Prison Inside Out. By Adrian Didlick, with Katrin Strohl and Don Osborne. Reviewed by Richard Broome The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the Fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein. Reviewed by Terri Mackenzie ‘My Country All Gone, the White Men Have Stolen It’: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800–1870. By Fred Cahir. Reviewed by Jack Norris Breaking New Ground: Biographies of Women Agricultural Science Students, University of Melbourne 1942–1965. By Helen Billman-Jacobe & Ann Westmore. Reviewed by Nikki Henningham Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics. By Sean Scalmer. Reviewed by Charles Fahey