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Henry Reynolds (historian)

April 25, 2024

Henry Reynolds FAHA FASSA (born 1938) is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians. He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights, becoming known with his first major work, The Other Side of the Frontier (1981).

Henry Reynolds
FAHA, FASSA
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
AwardsQueensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Literary Work Advancing Public Debate (2000)
Queensland Premier's History Book Award (2008)
Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction (2009)
Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction (2014)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Tasmania (BA [Hons], MA)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Tasmania (2000–)
James Cook University (1965–98)
Main interestsAustralian colonial history
Aboriginal–white relations in Australia
Notable worksThe Other Side of the Frontier (1981)

Early life and education edit

Henry Reynolds was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1938, the son of John Reynolds, who was a journalist who wrote the first biography of Edmund Barton.[1][2]

He attended Hobart High School.[3]

Following this, he attended the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History in 1960,[4] later gaining a Master of Arts in 1964.[5]

Career edit

Reynolds taught in secondary schools in Australia and England.[1]

He joined the academic staff at Townsville University College (later James Cook University) in 1966.[1] In the 1970s, he undertook an oral history project.[3] He served as associate professor of history and politics from 1982 until his retirement in 1998.[1]

In 2000 Reynolds became professorial fellow at the University of Tasmania in Launceston.[3]

As of September 2022, Reynolds was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania.[6]

Historical research and publications edit

Main article: Australian history wars

The Other Side of the Frontier, published in 1981, was ground-breaking in that it was the first major work by an historian to write Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective.[3]

In many books and academic articles Reynolds has sought to explain his view of the high level of violence and conflict involved in the colonisation of Australia, and the Aboriginal resistance to numerous massacres of Indigenous people. Reynolds, along with many other historians, estimate that up to 3,000 Europeans and at least 20,000 Aboriginal Australians were killed directly in the frontier violence, and many more Aboriginal peoples died indirectly through the introduction of European diseases and starvation caused by being forced from their productive tribal lands.[7]

Geoffrey Blainey and Keith Windschuttle categorise his approach as a black armband view of Australian history. In 2002, Windschuttle, in his book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847,[8][9] disputed whether the colonial settlers of Australia committed widespread genocide against Indigenous Australians, and accused Reynolds of misrepresenting, inventing, or exaggerating evidence. Subsequently, in Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's fabrication of Aboriginal history (2003; edited by Robert Manne), it was argued that Windschuttle failed to meet the criteria that he used to assess "orthodox historians" and his accusations were thus flawed.[10][11]

Friendship with Eddie Mabo edit

Reynolds struck up a friendship with Eddie Mabo, who was then a groundsman and gardener at James Cook University. In his book Why Weren't We Told?, Reynolds describes the talks they had regarding Mabo's people's rights to their lands, on Murray Island, in the Torres Strait. Reynolds writes:

Eddie [...] would often talk about his village and about his own land, which he assured us would always be there when he returned because everyone knew it belonged to his family. His face shone when he talked of his village and his land.

So intense and so obvious was his attachment to his land that I began to worry about whether he had any idea at all about his legal circumstances. [...] I said something like: "You know how you've been telling us about your land and how everyone knows it's Mabo land? Don't you realise that nobody actually owns land on Murray Island? It's all crown land."

He was stunned. [...] How could the whitefellas question something so obvious as his ownership of his land?[12]

Reynolds looked into the issue of Indigenous land ownership in international law, and encouraged Mabo to take the matter to court. "It was there over the sandwiches and tea that the first step was taken which led to the Mabo judgement in June 1992".[12] Mabo then talked to lawyers, and Reynolds "had little to do with the case itself from that time", although he and Mabo remained friends until the latter's death in January 1992.[13] Reynolds' 1970s oral history project however contributed to the High Court's recognition of land rights.[3]

Other activities edit

In September 2022, Reynolds appeared with filmmaker Rachel Perkins at a National Press Club of Australia address, soon after the airing of Perkins' SBS Television series, The Australian Wars.[14]

Awards and honours edit

Henry Reynolds has received the following awards and honours:

Conference edit

In tribute to Reynolds' seventieth year, the conference Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds was held in August 2008. It was sponsored by the Australian National University's Research School of the Humanities and the Research School of the Social Sciences, the National Library of Australia, and the University of Tasmania. Larissa Behrendt of University of Technology Sydney was among the speakers.[2][21][a]

Personal life edit

In December 1963 Henry Reynolds married Margaret Reynolds (née Lyne),[1] who served as an ALP senator for Queensland in Federal Parliament from 1983 until 1999.[15] Their daughter is Anna Reynolds, the Lord Mayor of Hobart.[23][24]

Major works edit

  • Aborigines and Settlers: the Australian Experience, 1788–1939 (ed) (1972) ISBN 030493917X
  • The Other Side of the Frontier : Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia (1981) ISBN 0-14-022475-0
  • Frontier; Aborigines, Settlers and Land (1987) ISBN 0-04-994005-8
  • Dispossession; Black Australia and White Invaders (1989) ISBN 1-86448-141-2
  • With the White People (1990) ISBN 0-14-012834-4
  • Race Relations in North Queensland (1993) (ed) ISBN 0-86443-484-7
  • Aboriginal Sovereignty: Reflections on Race, State and Nation (1996) ISBN 1-86373-969-6
  • This Whispering in Our Hearts (1998) ISBN 1-86448-581-7
  • Why Weren't We Told? (2000) ISBN 0-14-027842-7
  • Black Pioneers (2000) ISBN 0-14-029820-7
  • An Indelible Stain? The Question of Genocide in Australia's History (2001) ISBN 0-670-91220-4
  • The Law Of The Land (2003) ISBN 0-14-100642-0
  • Fate of a Free People (2004) ISBN 0-14-300237-6
  • Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (2008) ISBN 978-0-521-88118-0
  • Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (eds.), What's Wrong with ANZAC? The Militarisation of Australian History, Sydney, NewSouth Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-74223-151-8
  • A History of Tasmania (2011) ISBN 9780521548373
  • Forgotten War (2013, NewSouth Books) ISBN 978-1-74223-392-5
  • Unnecessary Wars (2016, NewSouth Books) ISBN 9781742234809
  • Truth Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement (2021, NewSouth Books) ISBN 9781742236940
  • Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader & Tasmanian War Hero. With Nicholas Clements (2021, NewSouth Books) ISBN 9781742236384

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Selected papers from the conference were published in a volume by Australian Scholarly Publishing, but do not appear to be otherwise available.[22]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Papers of Henry Reynolds". Trove. 17 July 1998. Retrieved 28 November 2023. Reference: Who's who in Australia 2001, pp. 1488-1489
  2. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e "In Conversation with Henry Reynolds". Events - University of Tasmania, Australia. 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Henry (1960), Some aspects of the intellectual and cultural life of nineteenth century Australia, retrieved 25 November 2023
  5. ^ Reynolds, Henry (1963), The island colony : Tasmania, society and politics, 1880-1900, [Hobart], retrieved 25 November 2023
  6. ^ "Writing History After Mabo: Henry Reynolds and Nick Brodie". Events - University of Tasmania, Australia. September 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  7. ^ . Kooriweb.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  8. ^ Bowdler, Sandra. . Australian Archaeological Association. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  9. ^ Ianziti, Gary. "Windschuttle at War: The Politics of Historiography in Australia. Paper presented to the Social Change in the 21st Century Conference" (PDF). QUT ePrints. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  10. ^ Manne, Robert, ed. (2003), Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's fabrication of Aboriginal history, Black Inc, ISBN 978-0-9750769-0-3
  11. ^ Henderson, Gerard (7 December 2004). "The trouble with Keith Windschuttle". The Age. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  12. ^ a b Reynolds, Henry, Why Weren't We Told?, 1999, ISBN 0-14-027842-7, p. 188
  13. ^ Reynolds, Henry, Why Weren't We Told?, 1999, p. 191
  14. ^ IN FULL: Rachel Perkins & Professor Henry Reynolds' Address to the National Press Club of Australia on YouTube (Address 23 November 2022; published on YouTube 15 September 2023.
  15. ^ a b c d e "Guide to the Papers of Henry Reynolds – Biographical Note" (2018), National Library of Australia
  16. ^ . Humanrights.gov.au Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  17. ^ "Academy Fellow – Professor Henry Reynolds FASSA, FAHA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  18. ^ "Fellows: Henry Reynolds". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  19. ^ "Australian Humanist of the Year", Humanists Australia
  20. ^ "JCU graduation this weekend". JCU Australia. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  21. ^ Ryan, Lyndall (2008). "Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds, Canberra, 29-30 August 2008". Labour History (95): 247–249. doi:10.2307/27516321. ISSN 0023-6942. JSTOR 27516321.
  22. ^ Attwood, Bain, ed. (2009). Frontier, race, nation : Henry Reynolds and Australian history. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN 9781921509445.
  23. ^ Beniuk, David (27 July 2012). "Historian's daughter takes on Wilkie". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  24. ^ "Lord Mayor Councillor Anna Reynolds". City of Hobart. Retrieved 28 November 2023.

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Henry Reynolds FAHA FASSA born 1938 is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights becoming known with his first major work The Other Side of the Frontier 1981 Henry ReynoldsFAHA FASSABorn1938 age 85 86 Hobart Tasmania AustraliaAwardsQueensland Premier s Literary Award for Best Literary Work Advancing Public Debate 2000 Queensland Premier s History Book Award 2008 Prime Minister s Literary Award for Non Fiction 2009 Victorian Premier s Prize for Nonfiction 2014 Academic backgroundAlma materUniversity of Tasmania BA Hons MA Academic workInstitutionsUniversity of Tasmania 2000 James Cook University 1965 98 Main interestsAustralian colonial historyAboriginal white relations in AustraliaNotable worksThe Other Side of the Frontier 1981 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Historical research and publications 4 Friendship with Eddie Mabo 5 Other activities 6 Awards and honours 6 1 Conference 7 Personal life 8 Major works 9 Footnotes 10 References 11 External linksEarly life and education editHenry Reynolds was born in Hobart Tasmania in 1938 the son of John Reynolds who was a journalist who wrote the first biography of Edmund Barton 1 2 He attended Hobart High School 3 Following this he attended the University of Tasmania where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History in 1960 4 later gaining a Master of Arts in 1964 5 Career editReynolds taught in secondary schools in Australia and England 1 He joined the academic staff at Townsville University College later James Cook University in 1966 1 In the 1970s he undertook an oral history project 3 He served as associate professor of history and politics from 1982 until his retirement in 1998 1 In 2000 Reynolds became professorial fellow at the University of Tasmania in Launceston 3 As of September 2022 update Reynolds was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania 6 Historical research and publications editMain article Australian history wars The Other Side of the Frontier published in 1981 was ground breaking in that it was the first major work by an historian to write Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective 3 In many books and academic articles Reynolds has sought to explain his view of the high level of violence and conflict involved in the colonisation of Australia and the Aboriginal resistance to numerous massacres of Indigenous people Reynolds along with many other historians estimate that up to 3 000 Europeans and at least 20 000 Aboriginal Australians were killed directly in the frontier violence and many more Aboriginal peoples died indirectly through the introduction of European diseases and starvation caused by being forced from their productive tribal lands 7 Geoffrey Blainey and Keith Windschuttle categorise his approach as a black armband view of Australian history In 2002 Windschuttle in his book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One Van Diemen s Land 1803 1847 8 9 disputed whether the colonial settlers of Australia committed widespread genocide against Indigenous Australians and accused Reynolds of misrepresenting inventing or exaggerating evidence Subsequently in Whitewash on Keith Windschuttle s fabrication of Aboriginal history 2003 edited by Robert Manne it was argued that Windschuttle failed to meet the criteria that he used to assess orthodox historians and his accusations were thus flawed 10 11 Friendship with Eddie Mabo editReynolds struck up a friendship with Eddie Mabo who was then a groundsman and gardener at James Cook University In his book Why Weren t We Told Reynolds describes the talks they had regarding Mabo s people s rights to their lands on Murray Island in the Torres Strait Reynolds writes Eddie would often talk about his village and about his own land which he assured us would always be there when he returned because everyone knew it belonged to his family His face shone when he talked of his village and his land So intense and so obvious was his attachment to his land that I began to worry about whether he had any idea at all about his legal circumstances I said something like You know how you ve been telling us about your land and how everyone knows it s Mabo land Don t you realise that nobody actually owns land on Murray Island It s all crown land He was stunned How could the whitefellas question something so obvious as his ownership of his land 12 Reynolds looked into the issue of Indigenous land ownership in international law and encouraged Mabo to take the matter to court It was there over the sandwiches and tea that the first step was taken which led to the Mabo judgement in June 1992 12 Mabo then talked to lawyers and Reynolds had little to do with the case itself from that time although he and Mabo remained friends until the latter s death in January 1992 13 Reynolds 1970s oral history project however contributed to the High Court s recognition of land rights 3 Other activities editIn September 2022 Reynolds appeared with filmmaker Rachel Perkins at a National Press Club of Australia address soon after the airing of Perkins SBS Television series The Australian Wars 14 Awards and honours editHenry Reynolds has received the following awards and honours 1970 71 British Council Travelling Scholarship 15 1982 Ernest Scott Historical Prize for The Other Side of the Frontier 15 1986 Harold White Fellowship National Library of Australia 15 1988 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Arts Award for The Law of the Land 16 1996 Australian Book Council Award the Banjo Award for non fiction 15 1998 Doctor of Letters honoris causa University of Tasmania 1999 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia FASSA 17 1999 Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities FAHA 18 1999 Human Rights Commission Arts Non Fiction Award 2000 Queensland Premier s Literary Awards Literary Work Advancing Public Debate the Harry Williams Award for Why Weren t We Told 2000 Australian Humanist of the Year Award 19 2008 With Professor Marilyn Lake Queensland Premier s Literary Awards History Book Award for Drawing the Global Colour Line 2009 With Marilyn Lake the non fiction category of the Prime Minister s Literary Awards for Drawing the Global Colour Line 2012 Honorary Doctor of Letters from James Cook University 20 Conference edit In tribute to Reynolds seventieth year the conference Race Nation History A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds was held in August 2008 It was sponsored by the Australian National University s Research School of the Humanities and the Research School of the Social Sciences the National Library of Australia and the University of Tasmania Larissa Behrendt of University of Technology Sydney was among the speakers 2 21 a Personal life editIn December 1963 Henry Reynolds married Margaret Reynolds nee Lyne 1 who served as an ALP senator for Queensland in Federal Parliament from 1983 until 1999 15 Their daughter is Anna Reynolds the Lord Mayor of Hobart 23 24 Major works editAborigines and Settlers the Australian Experience 1788 1939 ed 1972 ISBN 030493917X The Other Side of the Frontier Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia 1981 ISBN 0 14 022475 0 Frontier Aborigines Settlers and Land 1987 ISBN 0 04 994005 8 Dispossession Black Australia and White Invaders 1989 ISBN 1 86448 141 2 With the White People 1990 ISBN 0 14 012834 4 Race Relations in North Queensland 1993 ed ISBN 0 86443 484 7 Aboriginal Sovereignty Reflections on Race State and Nation 1996 ISBN 1 86373 969 6 This Whispering in Our Hearts 1998 ISBN 1 86448 581 7 Why Weren t We Told 2000 ISBN 0 14 027842 7 Black Pioneers 2000 ISBN 0 14 029820 7 An Indelible Stain The Question of Genocide in Australia s History 2001 ISBN 0 670 91220 4 The Law Of The Land 2003 ISBN 0 14 100642 0 Fate of a Free People 2004 ISBN 0 14 300237 6 Drawing the Global Colour Line White Men s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality 2008 ISBN 978 0 521 88118 0 Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds eds What s Wrong with ANZAC The Militarisation of Australian History Sydney NewSouth Books 2010 ISBN 978 1 74223 151 8 A History of Tasmania 2011 ISBN 9780521548373 Forgotten War 2013 NewSouth Books ISBN 978 1 74223 392 5 Unnecessary Wars 2016 NewSouth Books ISBN 9781742234809 Truth Telling History sovereignty and the Uluru Statement 2021 NewSouth Books ISBN 9781742236940 Tongerlongeter First Nations Leader amp Tasmanian War Hero With Nicholas Clements 2021 NewSouth Books ISBN 9781742236384Footnotes edit Selected papers from the conference were published in a volume by Australian Scholarly Publishing but do not appear to be otherwise available 22 References edit a b c d e Papers of Henry Reynolds Trove 17 July 1998 Retrieved 28 November 2023 Reference Who s who in Australia 2001 pp 1488 1489 a b Race Nation History A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds Archived from the original on 24 October 2009 Retrieved 5 December 2017 a b c d e In Conversation with Henry Reynolds Events University of Tasmania Australia 2021 Retrieved 28 November 2023 Reynolds Henry 1960 Some aspects of the intellectual and cultural life of nineteenth century Australia retrieved 25 November 2023 Reynolds Henry 1963 The island colony Tasmania society and politics 1880 1900 Hobart retrieved 25 November 2023 Writing History After Mabo Henry Reynolds and Nick Brodie Events University of Tasmania Australia September 2023 Retrieved 28 November 2023 The Statistics of Frontier Conflict Kooriweb org Archived from the original on 9 October 2017 Retrieved 18 February 2014 Bowdler Sandra Review of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One Van Diemen s Land 1803 1847 Australian Archaeological Association Archived from the original on 27 December 2020 Retrieved 11 September 2019 Ianziti Gary Windschuttle at War The Politics of Historiography in Australia Paper presented to the Social Change in the 21st Century Conference PDF QUT ePrints Retrieved 11 September 2019 Manne Robert ed 2003 Whitewash on Keith Windschuttle s fabrication of Aboriginal history Black Inc ISBN 978 0 9750769 0 3 Henderson Gerard 7 December 2004 The trouble with Keith Windschuttle The Age Retrieved 11 September 2019 a b Reynolds Henry Why Weren t We Told 1999 ISBN 0 14 027842 7 p 188 Reynolds Henry Why Weren t We Told 1999 p 191 IN FULL Rachel Perkins amp Professor Henry Reynolds Address to the National Press Club of Australia on YouTube Address 23 November 2022 published on YouTube 15 September 2023 a b c d e Guide to the Papers of Henry Reynolds Biographical Note 2018 National Library of Australia 1999 Human Rights Medal and Awards Humanrights gov au Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 Retrieved 11 August 2007 Academy Fellow Professor Henry Reynolds FASSA FAHA Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Retrieved 4 October 2020 Fellows Henry Reynolds Australian Academy of the Humanities Retrieved 4 October 2020 Australian Humanist of the Year Humanists Australia JCU graduation this weekend JCU Australia 11 April 2012 Retrieved 25 October 2023 Ryan Lyndall 2008 Race Nation History A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds Canberra 29 30 August 2008 Labour History 95 247 249 doi 10 2307 27516321 ISSN 0023 6942 JSTOR 27516321 Attwood Bain ed 2009 Frontier race nation Henry Reynolds and Australian history Melbourne Australian Scholarly Publishing ISBN 9781921509445 Beniuk David 27 July 2012 Historian s daughter takes on Wilkie The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 28 November 2023 Lord Mayor Councillor Anna Reynolds City of Hobart Retrieved 28 November 2023 External links editHenry Reynolds on AustLit Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Henry Reynolds historian amp oldid 1220128677, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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