Dr Jonathan Richards
Adjunct Research Fellow in History
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Violence on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1788-1960 ARC Discovery Grant |
2014–2016 |
Book Chapters
Richards, Jonathan (2016). ‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula. Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. (pp. 241-262) edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/clu.18.12ric
Richards, Jonathan (2016). Chinese exhumations in Queensland 1880-1930. Rediscovered Past: Chinese Networks. (pp. 76-84) edited by Gordon Grimwade, Kevin Rains and Melissa Dunk . East Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Chinese Heritage In Northern Australia.
Richards, Jonathan (2014). 'Many were killed from falling over the cliffs’: The Naming of Mount Wheeler, Central Queensland. Indigenous and minority placenames: Australian and international perspectives. (pp. 147-161) edited by Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press.
Richards, Jonathan (2013). 'Black Troopers': Native Police operations in the Townsville district. Lectures in Queensland History. Selected Lectures on Queensland History from the Lectures in Queensland History Series: 30 November 2009 - 27 February 2012. (pp. 74-80) edited by Annette Burns. Townsville, QLD, Australia: Townsville City Council.
Richards, Jonathan (2013). Frontier warfare in Australia. Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia to 1915. (pp. 21-38) edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
Richards, Jonathan and Weaver, John (2008). ‘I may as well die as go to the gallows’: murder-suicide in Queensland, 1890-1940. Histories of suicide: international perspectives on self-destruction in the modern world. (pp. 304-328) Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Journal Articles
Memmott, Paul, Richards, Jonathan and Kane, Jessica (2021). A Man of the 'Wild' Queensland Frontier: King Gida of the Kaurareg. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture, 12, 27-71.
Memmott, Paul and Richards, Jonathan (2021). 'Where is the Aboriginal Act?': Archibald Meston and the emergence of the Aboriginal Policy in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture , 12, 123-146. doi: 10.17082/j.2205-3239.12.1.2021.2021-05
Richards, Jonathan (2019). Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history. Australian Historical Studies, 50 (3), 382-383. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1633040
Richards, Jonathan (2016). Review of 'Rushing for gold: life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia'. Edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (3), 468-469. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12275
Brennan, Russell and Richards, Jonathan (2014). ‘The scum of French criminals and convicts’: Australia and New Caledonia escapees. History Compass, 12 (7), 559-566. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12171
Richards, Jonathan (2014). (Book Review) Forgotten War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1), 136-137.
Richards, Jonathan (2013). ‘What a howl there would be if some of our folk were so treated by an enemy’: The evacuation of Aboriginal people from Cape Bedford Mission, 1942. Aboriginal History, 36, 67-98.
Richards, Jonathan (2010). Native Police. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Finnane, Mark and Richards, Jonathan (2010). Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860-1940. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43 (2), 238-262. doi: 10.1375/acri.43.2.238
Richards, Jonathan (2010). Roads in the Wilderness: Development of the Main Road Network in Far North Queensland - the First 100 Years. Queensland Review, 17 (1), 79-82. doi: 10.1017/S1321816600005286
Richards, Jonathan (2010). Palm Island: Through a Long Lens. Aboriginal History, 34, 267-275.
Richards, Jonathan (2010). The Prophet and the Policeman: the story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen. Journal of Pacific History, 45 (1), 173-174.
Richards, Jonathan (2008). The native police of Queensland. History Compass, 6 (4), 1024-1036. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00536.x
Richards, Jonathan (2006). Robert Baird of China Camp. Queensland Review, 13 (2), 65-83. doi: 10.1017/S1321816600004438
Richards, Jonathan (2006). Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir. Queensland Review, 13 (2), 107-107. doi: 10.1017/S1321816600004463
Finnane, M and Richards, J (2004). 'You'll get nothing out of it'? The inquest, police and aboriginal deaths in colonial Queensland. Australian Historical Studies, 35 (123), 84-105. doi: 10.1080/10314610408596273