John Miller Tregenza (1931-1999)
Papers
MSS 0049
Series 3: Newcastle University College 1958-61 (17 cm)
Personnel file etc
- Includes letters of appointment (1958-59) and resignation (1961); submission to the Commonwealth Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education by Newcastle University College Staff Association; 1961 Conferring of Degrees booklet; ‘A Bill for an Act for the Establishment of the University of Newcastle’; newspaper cutting re the establishment of the University etc; newspaper clipping with photo of Tregenza 1961
Stuart England Lectures (in folder)
Mainly Tregenza’s notes / scripts for lectures, with some essay topics and reading lists, and notes from sources
History I Section II History 1603-1688 (folder)
- History I handbook 1960
- Notes on Settlement of 1688, James VI & I, The Stuarts, The Civil War, Charles I, Revolution and Great Rebellion
Teaching/lecture notes and outlines for European History courses including ‘Man in Society’, Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Reformation, Renaissance, Middle Ages etc
University of Newcastle Student Seminar paper 1960: “A discussion of the Constitutional and Economic Ties between England and Australia in the years 1856 to 1901” / Presented by ( Miss) Fay Bricklebank. Lecturer. Dr. John Tregenza. 3rd August 1960. 10 pages typed single spaced incl.notes and synopsis
England in the 19th Century course (History II?)
- Lecture notes, notes from sources. Subjects include Catholic invasion, Evangelicalism, Methodism, Ideas & beliefs of the Victorians, Women’s suffrage, Chartism, The Reform Bill of 1832, England in 1815, English social history, The revolution in France, Asa Briggs, Victorian England. Free thought
History III: Australian section
- Essay title; Bibliographies of local Australian history (Hunter Valley) and Australian history; Historical source material in Newcastle: a statements of holdings in Newcastle City Library and Newcastle University College (typescripts)
- Evolution of Australian democracy (p. 1 of lecture typescript, notes and clippings 1960)
- Coal & steel industry. Includes newspaper clippings, notes from sources, lecture outlines and notes, draft exam questions, print articles, and BHP annual reports 1959-60
- Australian foreign policy. Includes newspaper articles and notes. Also later material eg Essay topics on impact of WWII on Australian foreign policy dated Sept-Oct 1964 (while at U of Adelaide)
History IV: Problems in Australian History: “White Australia Policy”
- Ms notes and outline for a lecture
- typescript copies of student papers with annotations by Tregenza
- 1961 correspondence with Kenneth Rivett re setting up a Sydney group to discuss change in the White Australia Policy
- Newsletters of the NSW Association for Immigration Reform 1962-63, with pamphlet “Why does White Australia matter? / Victorian Association for Immigration Reform
- Pamphlet of speech on immigration policy by A.R. Downer, Minister of Immigration, at Town Hall, Adelaide, 4/12/1959
- Student essay “Transplanted English Liberalism …” with Tregenza’s notes on Pearson and Liberalism etc
General history files
- Russia (newspaper clippings 1959, including extracts from Manning Clark’s Letters from Moscow)
- Africa (ie South Africa) – newspaper clippings and ms and typed notes on South Africa and newspaper clippings mainly from 1960. Includes typed formal resolution for the Government from a ‘meeting of Newcastle citizens’ to oppose apartheid
- Trade unions. Typed and ms notes, and newspaper clippings 1960
- Lecture script for ‘The Wright Family History.’
Correspondence
- Letter to editor of Newcastle Morning Herald re South African race policy
- Reviews of William Light and Richard Horne biographies 14/2/1960
- Comments on Quadrant article on ‘Cultural freedom and church schools’ 22/12/1960
- re formation of Society for the Study of Labour History 6/3/1961
