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Dr Jennifer Harrison

Honorary Research Fellow in History
jennifer.harrison@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (8)
Journal Articles (27)
Conference Papers (6)
Reference Entries (4)

Books

Harrison, Jennifer (2016). Shackled: female convicts at Moreton Bay, 1826-1839. Victoria, Australia: Anchor Books Australia.
Harrison, Jennifer and Steele, J. G. (John Gladstone), 1935- (2003). The fell tyrant or the suffering convict: Showing the horrid and dreadful suffering of the convicts of Norfolk Island, and Moreton Bay, our two penal settlements in New South Wales, with the life of the author William R...S. Brisbane, Australia: Royal Historical Society of Queensland.

Book Chapters

Harrison, Jennifer (2016). Protecting Brisbane: Health officers and maritime quarantine in pre-Separation Queensland. Brisbane Diseased: Contagions, Cures and Controversy. (pp. 19-36) edited by Alana Piper. Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia: Brisbane History Group; Boolarong Press.
Harrison, Jennifer (2014). The forty-niners. Brisbane: Schemes and Dreams. Nineteenth Century Arrivals. (pp. 41-53) edited by Jennifer Harrison and Barry Shaw. Kelvin Grove DC, QLD, Australia: Brisbane History Group; Boolarong Press.
Harrison, Jennifer (2013). 'The years are passing overhead and passing dreadful quick': 150th commemorations for Erin Go Bragh arrival at Moreton Bay. Offaly Heritage 7. (pp. 150-159) edited by Ciarán Reilly. Bury Quay, Tullamore, Ireland: Esker Press.
Harrison, Jennifer (2013). 'How Shall They Hear Without a Preacher?': Church of England clergymen in the pre-separation Moreton Bay district of New South Wales during the 1840s-1860s. Collegial canon: essays in celebration of John Morgan. (pp. 43-53) edited by John Moses. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Harrison, Jennifer (2012). 'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus': Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848-52. Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52. (pp. 561-567) edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press.
Harrison, J. (2007). It's a Long Way to Tipperary: Seeking Irish Origins in Nineteenth-century Queensland Records. Echoes of Irish Australia: Rebellion to Republic. (pp. 70-79) edited by J. Brownrigg, C. Mongan and R. Reid. Galong, Australia: St Clement's Retreat and Conference Centre.
Harrison, J. (2007). Space and the Tropics: Immigration to Colonial Queensland 1860-1901. Diaspora(s): Movements and Cultures. (pp. 45-54) edited by N. Hewitt and D. Geary. Nottingham, UK: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press.
Harrison, J. (2001). Popular Culture: Radio to television in the 1950s. Brisbane: Relaxation, Recreation and Rock'n'Roll Popular Culture 1890-1990. (pp. 72-83) edited by B. Shaw. Brisbane: Brisbane History Group.

Journal Articles

Harrison, Jennifer (2018). Review of La Trobe: Traveller Writer Governor, By John Barnes (Canberra: Halstead Press, 2017). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (3), 501-502. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12487
Harrison, Jennifer (2015). The luck of the Irish: how a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 135-136. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12092
Harrison, Jennifer (2014). (Book Review) Historical Records of Australia, Resumed Series III Despatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania, Volume X, January-December 1831. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1), 130-131.
Harrison, Jennifer (2013). ‘Pitchforking Irish coercionists into colonial vacancies’: the case of Sir Henry Blake and the Queensland Governorship. Queensland Review, 20 (2), 135-143. doi: 10.1017/qre.2013.16
Harrison, Jennifer (2013). Mrs Barnfield and the Queen of the Colonies: the 1863 voyage. Queensland History Journal, 22 (2), 69-80.
Harrison, Jennifer (2013). 'Adopting a regular system of prison discipline': Moreton Bay and 1820s Penal Settlements in the 'Plan of Punishment'. Queensland History Journal, 21 (12), 809-818.
Harrison, Jennifer (2010). Convict Brisbane. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Harrison, Jennifer (2010). Colonial immigration to Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). Parsons, Publicans and policemen: Defining Brisbane 1860. Queensland History Journal, 20 (13), 820-831.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). Separation Celebrations: Speculation, Anticipation and Observations from 1859 reports. Queensland History Journal, 20 (12), 675-685.
Harrison, Jennifer (2008). Book review: The Irish General Thomas Francis Meagher. By Paul R. Wylie (Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54 (1), 161-162.
Harrison, J. (2007). The Moreton Bay commandants and their families, 1824-1842. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 20 (4), 148-158.
Harrison, Jennifer (2006). (Book Reviews) Ulster and Scotland 1600-2000 history, language and identity And Ulster–New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers.. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (3), 506-508. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00431.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2006). (Book Review) Ulster and Scotland 1600-2000 History, Language and Identity by W Kelly and J R Young. (Book Review) Ulster–New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers by B Patterson. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (3), 506-508. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00431.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2006). (Book Review) Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 134-135. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2006). Varieties of vice-regal life (Van Diemen's land section). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 133-134. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2006). (Book Reviews) A Nation’s Imagination: Australia’s Copyright Records, 1854-1968. Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 134-135. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2004). (Book Review) William Smith O’Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 50 (1), 138-139. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00327.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2004). (Book Review)Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798 And Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 50 (3), 453-454. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00347.x
Harrison, Jennifer (2003). (Book Review) Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 49 (3), 459-460. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00299
Harrison, J. (2003). Review of Ancestors in archives: A guide for family historians to South Australia's government archives. Australian Journal of Politics And History, 49 (1), 119-120. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00286
Harrison, J. (2003). Without favour or affection: Transported Irish constables 1823-4. Offaly Heritage, 1, 77-95.
Harrison, J. (2003). Without favour or affection: transported Irish constables, 1823-4. University of Queensland Historical Proceedings, 14 (1), 1-11.
Harrison, J. (2000). Irish Women in colonial Australia, edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 17 (7), 329-333.
Harrison, Jennifer (2000). (Book Review) Finding Families: The Guide to the National Archives of Australia for Genealogists. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 46 (1), 126-127. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00089
Harrison, Jennifer (1999). Old world famine, new world plenty: The career of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 17 (4), 155-171.
Harrison, Jennifer (1999). (Book Review) Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III, Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania. Volume VII. Tasmania, January-December 1828. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 45 (1), 119-119. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00059

Conference Papers

Harrison, Jennifer (2010). '... not likely to command attention or to conciliate general esteem': the Revd John Vincent, First Clergyman at Moreton Bay 1829. From Augustine to Anglicanism: The Anglican Church in Australia and Beyond, Milton, Qld., Australia, 12-14 February 2010. Toowoomba, Qld., Australia: Anglicans in Australia and Beyond.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). Days of our lives, preserving our own life stories. Preserving the past for the future, Auckland, 16 - 19 January 2009. Auckland: The New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). She only stole a handkerchief - Research recidivist convicts. Preserving the past for the future, Auckland, 16 - 19 January 2009. Auckland: The New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). More than maps - the Ordnance survey in Ireland. Preserving the past for the future, Auckland, 16 - 19 January 2009. Auckland: The New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.
Harrison, Jennifer (2009). Echoes of the past time: Miss Lord and Brisbane's historic homes. Professional Historians Association Queensland Conference, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 3-4 September, 2009. St.Lucia, QLD, Australia: Professional Historians Association (Queensland).
Harrison, Jennifer (2002). From Youghal Harbour to Moreton Bay: in Uniacke's wake. Twelfth Irish-Australian Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 2002. Western Australia: Centre for Irish Studies and Irish Australian Studies.

Reference Entries

Harrison, J. and Anderson, P. (2007). Gall, Ian Stuart (1904-1981).
Harrison, J. (2005). Rigby, Hannah (c. 1794 - 1853).
Harrison, J. (2005). Brenan, John O’Neill (1856 - 1940).
Harrison, J. (2004). Maxwell William Poulter.
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