Literary articles
- ‘A Shadow from Country’, Island 162, 2021, pp. 22–27 [shortlisted for Island Magazine Non-Fiction Prize 2021] https://islandmag.com/read/a-shadow-from-country-by-naomi-parry
Books
Naomi Parry and Brad Manera with Will Davies and Stephen Garton, New South Wales and the Great War, Haberfield: Longueville Media, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9943863-7-3
When the Great War began in August 1914, the people of New South Wales took up the call to arms. NSW sent more people than any other state to serve overseas and many more worked and volunteered to support the war effort. But the economic, political and emotional strains of war, and the loss of so many young men, and some women, in the service of their country, fanned social and political divisions and wrought lasting changes to the society to which serving men and women would return.
For sale from the NSW Anzac Memorial: https://anzacmemorialshop.bigcartel.com/product/new-south-wales-and-the-great-war
Book sections and journal articles
- ‘From Kerosene to Glow Worms – Interpreting the Wolgan Valley Railway and the Good Worm Tunnel, Historia+, 30 September 2024, https://www.historians.org.au/historia-submission-guidelines/2024/9/30/from-kerosene-to-glow-worms-interpreting-the-wolgan-valley-railway-and-the-glow-worm-tunnel
- ‘How a biography brought me to family history: Working on Aboriginal stories’, Traces Magazine, Issue 15, July 2021, pp. 12–15
- ‘From the island to the mainland (and back?), in Dee Michell, Jacqueline Z Wilson, Verity Archer (eds), Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class, Rotterdam: Sense, 2015
- ‘Tracing the past: the Find & Connect web resource’, in Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z Wilson (eds), Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the institutionalisation of women and children, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014
- ‘Stolen Childhoods. Reforming Aboriginal and Orphan Children through Removal and Labour in New South Wales (Australia), 1909-1917’, Revue d’histoire de l’enfance «irrégulière», Volume 14, 2012
- ‘“Hanging No Good for Blackfellow”: looking into the life of Musquito’, in Ingereth Macfarlane & Mark Hannah (eds.), Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007
- ‘My mother told me never to part with them’, in Dianne D. Johnson, Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully traditional owners, Broadway: Halstead, 2007: 151-158
- Maria Lock, Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580-1980, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005
- Musquito, Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580-1980, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005
- (with Caroline Evans), ‘Vessels of Progressivism?: Tasmanian state girls and eugenics, 1900-1940’, Australian Historical Studies, Volume 32 (117), October 2001: 322-333
Digital history
Digital history is a beautiful way to combine the skills of a historian with those of archivists and IT whizzes to produce content that comes alive in new and exciting ways. The major projects I’ve worked on are:
The Find & Connect Web Resource
From 2011 until 2014, I was the NSW State-Based Historian on the Find & Connect web resource – an Australian Government-funded project to develop histories and archival information that might assist Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants locate their records and understand their histories. It is a multi-disciplinary project, based at the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. I was employed as a research fellow by the Australian Catholic University, full-time, doing child welfare history, but also learning about archiving, web publishing, and social and cultural informatics.
The Dictionary of Sydney
From August 2014 until 2018 I was project editor at The Dictionary of Sydney, a historical and cultural resource that explores Sydney’s past and present. In May 2015 I wrote articles on Bidura, Royleston, and Yarra Bay House, with the support of the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage Aboriginal Heritage projects. In May 2016 I was commissioned to write about Lockleys Pylon for the Blue Mountains Icons project, funded by Blue Mountains City Council and Varuna, The Writers’ House. I also wrote two essays commissioned by the Workers’ Education Association to celebrate its history in 2018.
I wrote the text, with John Nethercote, and the timeline for WBMC. This website was created as part of a project to digitally extend the narrative and the content of the television ABC documentary series Howard on Menzies – The Making of Modern Australia created by Smith & Nasht. Much more than that, it has become a home for Sir Robert Menzies’ archive, life and legacy online.
Lithgow History Avenue website
In collaboration with blacksmith Phil Spark, I wrote the text and did the picture research for the Lithgow History Avenue website, which is a timeline that accompanies a series of sculptures, curated by Phil, to allude to key points in the history of the City of Lithgow from 1788-1928. The sculptures and the website were developed for Lithgow City Council in 2013, with sponsorship, to guide visitors through the cultural precinct and heritage of the eastern side of Lithgow.