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Dr Anthony James Hammerton

Head of School, European and Hisorical Studies Room: David Myers Building E108 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2364 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: j.hammerton@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: PhD University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1969; BA (Hons) Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1964.

Dr Jim Hammerton taught history at La Trobe University from 1969 until his retirement at the end of 2004. His teaching fields ranged across modern British and Australian history, the history of migration, the history of women, of marriage and of masculinity. He served variously as Head of the (former) Department of History and as Head and Deputy Head of the School of Historical and European Studies.

Research interests: History of British Emigration since World War Two: to Australia, Canada and the wider ‘British Diaspora’. Gender, Migration and Empire. History of Marriage and the Family in Modern Britain. History of the English Lower Middle-Class. History of Masculinity. Oral History.

Research Projects

• A History of British Emigration and the ‘British Diaspora’ since the 1960s: the ‘Mobility of Modernity’, an Oral History. (This oral history project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council, is currently at the stage of recruiting informants who emigrated from Britain after 1968; interested volunteers may contact Dr Hammerton for more information.)
  
• A Life History of British Migration to Canada since World War Two, an Oral History from the 1940s to 1960s.
  
• Gender, Masculinity and the English Lower Middle-Class in the 19th and 20th centuries

Research Publications

Books

• [With Alistair Thomson] ‘Ten Pound Poms’: Australia’s Invisible Migrants, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005.
  
• Edited, [with Eric Richards], Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the
• History of Australian Immigration (Visible Immigrants, 6), Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2002.
  
• Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life, London, Routledge, 1992, 1995.
  
• Emigrant Gentlewomen: Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914, (London, Croom Helm, 1979).

Recent Articles in Refereed Journals

• ‘Ten-Pound Tasmanians: The British-Tasmanian Experience of Postwar Assisted Migration’, Tasmanian Historical Studies, 10, 2005, pp. 18-26.
  
• ‘The Quest For Family And The Mobility Of Modernity in Narratives Of British Migration To Australia And Canada Since 1945’, Global Networks, vol 4 (3), July 2004, pp.271-284. (special edition on ‘Transnational Families’ ed. Mary Chamberlain and Selma Leydesdorff).
  
• ‘Oral Testimony and History’s “Fabrication”’, History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association, vol. 1(1), December, 2003, pp. 111-113.
  
• ‘Migrants, Mobility And Modernity: Understanding The Life Stories Of Post War English Canadian Immigrants, 1945-1971’, British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16, (1), 2003. pp. 160-169. [With Catharine Coleborne] ‘Ten-Pound Poms Revisited: Battlers’ Tales and British Migration to Australia, 1947-1971’, Journal of Australian Studies –
• ‘Scatterlings of Empire’, 68, Winter, 2001, pp. 86-96.
  
• ‘Epic Stories and the Mobility of Modernity: Narratives of British Migration to Canada and Australia Since 1945’, Australian-Canadian Studies, vol 19, no. 1, 2001, pp. 47-64.
  
• ’The Perils of Mrs Pooter: Satire, Modernity and Motherhood in the Lower Middle-Class, England, 1870-1920’, Women’s History Review, 8(2), July, 1999, 261-276.
  
• ‘Introduction’, (with Pat Grimshaw and Eileen Janes Yeo, co-editors), Women’s History Review, 8(2) July, 1999, 193-199.
  
• ‘Pooterism or Partnership?: Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle-Class, 1870-1920’, Journal of British Studies, 38(3) July, 1999, 291-321.

Recent Book Chapters

• 'Life stories, family relations and the lens of migration: postwar British emigration and the new mobility', Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in The World, Ed(s). Prof. Desley Deacon, A/Prof. Penny Russell and Prof. Angela Woollacott, Canberra, ACT, Australia, ANU E Press,2008, pp. 135-148.
• Postwar British Emigrants and the ‘Transnational Moment’: Exemplars of a ‘Mobility of Modernity’?, in Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (eds.), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 2006, pp. 117-128.
  
• ‘“We’re Not Poms”: The Shifting Identities of Postwar Scottish Migrants to Australia’, in Angela McCarthy (ed), Personal Accounts of Scottish Migrant Networks and Identity Worldwide Since the Eighteenth Century, London, I.B. Tauris, 2006, pp. 227-242.
  
• ‘Gender and Migration’. Commissioned chapter for the ‘Gender and Empire’ volume of the new Oxford History of the British Empire, (ed. Philippa Levine), New York, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 247-285.
  
• ‘Family Comes First’: Migrant Memory And Masculinity In Narratives Of Post-war British Migrants’, in A. James Hammerton & Eric Richards, (eds.) Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Immigration (Visible Immigrants, 6), Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2002, pp. 21-37.
  
• ‘The English Weakness? Satire and “Moral Manliness” in the Lower Middle-Class,’ in Kidd, Alan and Nicholls, David, eds., Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity: in Britain, 1800-1940, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 164-182.
  
• ‘"Out of Their Natural Station": Empire and Empowerment in the Emigration of Lower Middle-Class Women,’ in Kranidis, Rita (ed.), Imperial Objects: Victorian Women’s Emigration and the Unauthorized Imperial Experience, New York, Twayne Macmillan, 1998, pp.143-169.