Overview
Availability
- Dr Jonathan Richards is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Griffith University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
Works
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2025
Book Chapter
Afterlives: biography, image, performance, memory
Knowles, Chantal, Aird, Michael, Richards, Jonathan and Nugent, Maria (2025). Afterlives: biography, image, performance, memory. The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and its Afterlives. (pp. 213-245) edited by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/WAS.2025.11
2025
Book Chapter
Life stories: the Wild Australia Show (1892-1893)
Aird, Michael, Allen, Lindy, Knowles, Chantal, Memmott, Paul, Nugent, Maria and Richards, Jonathan (2025). Life stories: the Wild Australia Show (1892-1893). Reframing indigenous biography. (pp. 301-307) edited by Shino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook and Tom Griffiths. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003351863-23
2025
Book
The Wild Australia Show: the story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and its afterlives
Memmott, Paul, Nugent, Maria, Aird, Michael, Allen, Lindy, Knowles, Chantal and Richards, Jonathan (2025). The Wild Australia Show: the story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and its afterlives. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc.. doi: 10.22459/was.2025
2024
Journal Article
'Working Country: Aboriginal stockmen and stockwomen', State Library of Queensland
Richards, Jonathan (2024). 'Working Country: Aboriginal stockmen and stockwomen', State Library of Queensland. Australian Historical Studies, 55 (4), 783-784. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2024.2395076
2024
Journal Article
Speculating about genocide: The Queensland frontier 1859–1897
Finnane, Mark and Richards, Jonathan (2024). Speculating about genocide: The Queensland frontier 1859–1897. Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, 64 (1), 34-51. doi: 10.1111/aehr.12278
2023
Journal Article
S.W. Griffith: a suitable case for indictment?
Finnane, Mark and Richards, Jonathan (2023). S.W. Griffith: a suitable case for indictment?. Australian Historical Studies, 54 (3), 387-404. doi: 10.1080/1031461x.2023.2208585
2023
Book Chapter
Archibald Meston (1851–1924)
Richards, Jonathan and Memmott, Paul (2023). Archibald Meston (1851–1924). Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. 1-3) Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University.
2021
Journal Article
'Where is the Aboriginal Act?': Archibald Meston and the emergence of the Aboriginal Policy in Queensland
Memmott, Paul and Richards, Jonathan (2021). 'Where is the Aboriginal Act?': Archibald Meston and the emergence of the Aboriginal Policy in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture , 12, 123-146. doi: 10.17082/j.2205-3239.12.1.2021.2021-05
2021
Journal Article
A Man of the 'Wild' Queensland Frontier: King Gida of the Kaurareg
Memmott, Paul, Richards, Jonathan and Kane, Jessica (2021). A Man of the 'Wild' Queensland Frontier: King Gida of the Kaurareg. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture, 12, 27-71. doi: 10.17082/j.2205-3239.12.1.2021.2021-03
2020
Journal Article
Mapping colonial massacres and frontier violence in Australia: “the names of places”
Hooper, Greg, Richards, Jonathan and Watson, Judy (2020). Mapping colonial massacres and frontier violence in Australia: “the names of places”. Cartographica, 55 (3), 193-198. doi: 10.3138/CART-2019-0020
2019
Journal Article
Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history
Richards, Jonathan (2019). Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history. Australian Historical Studies, 50 (3), 382-383. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1633040
2016
Journal Article
Review of 'Rushing for gold: life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia'. Edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser
Richards, Jonathan (2016). Review of 'Rushing for gold: life and commerce on the goldfields of New Zealand and Australia'. Edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (3), 468-469. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12275
2016
Book Chapter
Chinese exhumations in Queensland 1880-1930
Richards, Jonathan (2016). Chinese exhumations in Queensland 1880-1930. Rediscovered Past: Chinese Networks. (pp. 76-84) edited by Gordon Grimwade, Kevin Rains and Melissa Dunk . East Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Chinese Heritage In Northern Australia.
2016
Book Chapter
‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula
Richards, Jonathan (2016). ‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula. Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. (pp. 241-262) edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/clu.18.12ric
2014
Journal Article
‘The scum of French criminals and convicts’: Australia and New Caledonia escapees
Brennan, Russell and Richards, Jonathan (2014). ‘The scum of French criminals and convicts’: Australia and New Caledonia escapees. History Compass, 12 (7), 559-566. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12171
2014
Journal Article
(Book Review) Forgotten War
Richards, Jonathan (2014). (Book Review) Forgotten War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1), 136-137.
2014
Book Chapter
'Many were killed from falling over the cliffs’: The Naming of Mount Wheeler, Central Queensland
Richards, Jonathan (2014). 'Many were killed from falling over the cliffs’: The Naming of Mount Wheeler, Central Queensland. Indigenous and minority placenames: Australian and international perspectives. (pp. 147-161) edited by Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press.
2013
Book Chapter
Frontier warfare in Australia
Richards, Jonathan (2013). Frontier warfare in Australia. Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia to 1915. (pp. 21-38) edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
2013
Book Chapter
'Black Troopers': Native Police operations in the Townsville district
Richards, Jonathan (2013). 'Black Troopers': Native Police operations in the Townsville district. Lectures in Queensland History. Selected Lectures on Queensland History from the Lectures in Queensland History Series: 30 November 2009 - 27 February 2012. (pp. 74-80) edited by Annette Burns. Townsville, QLD, Australia: Townsville City Council.
2013
Journal Article
‘What a howl there would be if some of our folk were so treated by an enemy’: The evacuation of Aboriginal people from Cape Bedford Mission, 1942
Richards, Jonathan (2013). ‘What a howl there would be if some of our folk were so treated by an enemy’: The evacuation of Aboriginal people from Cape Bedford Mission, 1942. Aboriginal History, 36, 67-98.
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