Victorian Historical Journal HARD COPY Volume 87, Number 2, December 2016

Description Introduction  David Harris Articles ‘I feel it dreadful to be out of work’: Tom Purcell and William Farrell 196 and the Melbourne Labour Market 1875–1908 by John Lack and Charles Fahey Melbourne Journalist Reports on the ‘Storm Centre of Asia’, 1931–32 – Janet Mitchell: Journalist, Internationalist, Educationalist by Patricia Clarke Beechworth Goldfield and Large-scale Water Management in Colonial Victoria by Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence and Jodi Turnbull The Wirrengren-Kulkyne Pathway: Locating a Cultural Icon  by John Burch ‘The Remarkable Disappearance of Messrs Gellibrand and Hesse’.  What Really Happened in 1837? A Re-examination of the Historical Evidence by Paul Michael F Donovan, Ian D Clark and Fred (David) Cahir HISTORICAL NOTE The Day Georgiana McCrae Got It Wrong – Barbara Minchinton REVIEWS Judging for the People: A Social History of the Supreme Court in Victoria 1841–2016,  Edited by Simon Smith (Kim Rubenstein with Marina Loane) Respectable Radicals: A History of the National Council of Women of  Australia 1896–2006 by Marian Quartly and Judith Smart (Kate Laing) These Walls Speak Volumes: A History of the Mechanics’ Institutes in Victoria by Pam Baragwanath and Ken James (Don Garden) Lost Relations, Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age by Graeme Davison (Marie Alice Clark) Wild Bleak Bohemia, Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall—A Documentary by Michael Wilding (Marie Alice Clark) Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed  by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan (John Rickard) J.P. Campbell: Pictorialist Photographer at Home and at War by Alan Harding (Richard Trembath) Victoria and the Great War, edited by John Lack and Judith Smart with John Arnold (Walter Phillips) Sport in Victoria: A History, edited by Dave Nadel and Graeme Ryan (Don Gibb)