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BA (Hons), PhD W.Aust.
Tel: 61 08 6488 2134
Fax: 61 08 6488 1069
Email: jenny.gregory@uwa.edu.au
Position
Head, School of Humanities, Acting Head, School of Music Teaching & Research Interests
Twentieth century urban and planning history (presently focusing on the social and cultural impact of modernist planning and the impact of resource booms on the city); heritage studies (with particular interests in authenticity and the changing meaning of place over time); and Australian history (especially this region).
Selected Publications
Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia (edited with Jan Gothard), UWA Press, 2009
City of Light: a history of Perth since the fifties, City of Perth, 2003
Claremont: a history (with Geoff Bolton), UWA Press, 1998
Historical Traces: Studies in WA History, No. 17, 1997
On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II, (edited), UWA Press, Nedlands, 1996
Building a Tradition: a history of Scotch College Perth 1896-1996, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1996
Western Australia between the Wars: Studies in WA History, No.11, 1991 Recent Journal articles
Jenny Gregory, 'Northbridge and Carlton: ethnoscapes of consumption?', Northbridge Studies, 1, 2009
Jenny Gregory, 'Development Pressures and Heritage in the Perth CBD 1960-90', Australian Economic History Review, Vol.24, No. 1, March 2009
Jenny Gregory, 'Obliterating history? the transformation of inner city industrial suburbs', Australian Historical Studies, 39, 1, March 2008
Jenny Gregory, 'Reconsidering relocated buildings: ICOMOS, authenticity and mass relocation', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14, 2, March 2008 Chapters
Jenny Gregory, "Let our watchword be "order" and our beacon "beauty"': Achieving town planning legislation in Western Australia', and 'Visions of the City: Town planning and community activism in post-war Perth', in Robert Freestone (ed.), Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform: Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations, Sydney University press, 2009 Jenny Gregory, 'Journeying across colonial landscapes: portable housing in nineteenth century Australia', in Alan Mayne (ed), Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, 2008. Jenny Gregory, 'Perth', in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (eds), Introducing Sociology: Place, Time and Division, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2006, pp.63-8 Students currently supervised: June Caunt
'Whingeing Poms or Misunderstood Migrants' This study uses contemporary interviews with British migrants arriving in Western Australia in the 1960s and memories of the event as recalled by migrants some 40 years later to inestigate their experiences as well as the possible effects of memory and later experience on the recall of the migration story. The study compares the demographics of the two studies, the motivation for migration, the eperience of settling in Western Australia and the reported attitudes of Western Australians to British migrants at that time. Was the reality of life in Western Australia in the 1960s contrary to what migrants believed they had been promised by immigration officers and by government publications? Were they 'whingeing' or were they misunderstood when they drew attention to the problems that hindered their settlement? Michael Crouch
'Educated for the twentieth-century? 'Opportunity, Oppression and Obduracy': the Life of Emily Bonnycastle Mayne (AIMEE) 1872-1958' This pivotal biography is of a woman whose background and life understanding of education, travel and aspirations will provide a model for illuminating the eperiences of upper-middle-class English women who were born in the late nineteenth-century. Data gathered in London and India provides a backdrop to her life, while the copious primary material left by the subject of the biography is unusual, even unique for a woman of her social background: it contains intimate detail about her life that provides a window into the innermost thoughts of a woman of the late Victorian period. Cindy Lane
'Myths and Memories: Rereading Western Australian Space and People through the Lens of Travel Writing - 1850-1914' Through an analysis of the writings of a selection of European travellers visiting Western Australia between 1850 and 1914, and an examination of two themes - space and people - this thesis investigates the ways in which travellers constructed a sense of the southern region of Western Australia. In using the genre of travel writing, this study makes a contribution to a relatively new field of historical enquiry, and is an innovative approach to Western Australian history. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations from which a vision of the newly colonised land were created. The historical, geographical and cultural contexts in which they lived, along with the ideas and philosophies of eighteenth and nineteenth century European society, strongly influenced their observations. The ideology implicit in their writings provides an insight into the way power and privilege helped shape their imaginings of space and people in Western Australia. Isla Macphail
'A Study of the Western Australian Parliamentary Electoral System 1829-1901' This study charts and analyses the introduction of and changes to the Western Australian electoral system during the nineteenth century. It encompasses Western Australia's colonial constitutional history, particularly its electoral law provisions and provides insights into topics such as the gaining of the women's suffrage and representation. Western Australia is believed to have lagged behind other colonies in the provision of electoral representation, But did it? Sources include parliamentary debates and Legislative Council minutes as well as the UK parliament's Hansard, votes and proceedings, detailed examination of acts and ordinances, governmental and private correspondence, government gazettes, electoral statistics, an extensive array of journals, colonial newspapers, unpublished theses and a range of websites. Sandy Potter
'Competency, Respectability and Degrees of Social Acceptance of White-Collar Expirees in the Swan River Colony, between 1850 and 1907' There has been very little research into white-collar convicts in Australia. They were educated men from well-to-do backgrounds. This thesis examines details of the lives of a sample of twelve white-collar convicts, their sometimes spectacular crimes, their trials and convictions, their conduct in various penitentiaries in Britain, and their subsequent voyages of transportation to the Swan River Colony. What was their fate? The aim of the thesis is to gauge the competency, respectability and social acceptance that they attained in the colony. On their arrival the Convict Establishment put them to work. What was the nature of this work? What sort of employment did they obtain after gaining their Tickets-of-Leave? Did they marry? Did they develop successful careers? Did they ever hold public office? Were their children accepted as suitable marriage partners for the children of free settlers? Did these white-collar convicts regain the status they had occupied before their conviction?
Memberships
Fellow, Royal Historical Society; Chair, National Trust of Australia (WA); Director, Australian Council of National Trusts; Director, WA History Foundation; Member, Australian Historical Association, ICOMOS, Professional Historians Association, Oral History Association of Australia, Royal Western Australian Historical Society
Past-President, History Council of WA 2001-2007; Past-President, National Trust (WA) 1998-2007 Honours and Awards
2006 Invited Participant, Australian History Summit, Canberra
2004 Champion Award for excellence in the field, Year of Built Environment
2001 Centenary Medal for service to the community as President of the National Trust WA
1997 WA History Foundation Award for best first book in the field of Western Australian History
1993 UWA Excellence in Teaching Award |