Benjamin Wilkie

B.A. (Hons), Ph.D, FSA Scot
@benvwilkie
bvwilkie@gmail.com


Publications & Papers

Books

Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians, CSIRO Publishing, 2020.

The Scots in Australia: 1788-1938, Boydell Press, 2017.

Current and forthcoming

'Scotland’s Intellectual Empire and the History of Philosophy in Australia', The Sixth Conference of the International Research Consortium for Irish and Scottish Studies: ‘Sovereignty and Territory: Ireland, Scotland and their Diasporas’, Sydney 2020.

Review of All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World, by Pete Minard, Environmental History, forthcoming, 2020.

'Rivers, Empire, and a Scottish transport company in colonial Malawi', Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, under review.

'Glasgow workers and the African Lakes Corporation in Nyasaland and British Central Africa', manuscript in preparation.

2018-2019

Review of Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600, by Angela McCarthy and John MacKenzie (eds), The Innes Review, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2019.

‘Ferdinand von Mueller in the Victorian Grampians’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 90, No. 2, November 2019.

'Scotland, the Otago Settlement, and its Australasian Context', Scotland's Colony? Rethinking Scottish Studies through the optic of Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin, December 2019.

‘Menzies, Scotland, and the Australian Liberals, Meanjin, Winter 2019.

'The Scottish Enlightenment in Australia’, Genealogy Society of Victoria Scottish Ancestry Seminar, Melbourne, July 2019.

'Politicians, poetry, and the many faces of Robert Burns in Australia', Robert Burns Scottish Festival, Camperdown, July 2019.

‘Defending nature: Animals and militarised landscapes in Australia’, in Nancy Cushing and Jodi Frawley (eds), Animals Count: How population size matters in animal-human relations, Routledge, 2018.

'Rights, reconciliation, and the restoration of Djabwurrung and Jardwadjali names to Grampians-Gariwerd', Victorian Historical Journal, 2018. Shortlisted for the Biennial John Adams Prize for best article on Victorian history in 2017-18, Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

‘Grampians or Gariwerd? The meaning of national parks in settler-colonial societies’, Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University, November 2018.

'Introduction: Scots and the making of the Western District of Victoria', in Scotland to Australia Felix: Founding Scots of Victoria's Camperdown District, Camperdown & District Historical Socity Inc., 2018.

‘David Livingstone’; ‘The Darien Scheme’; ‘The Victoria Statue, Hong Kong’; 'Rajasthan Spice Box', in Mark Doyle (ed), The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2018.

2016-2017

'Scotland and Australian botany in the colonial era', Australian Garden History, Vol. 29, No. 2, October 2017.

'Scots, Empire, and the Australian Environment', History Scotland, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2017.

'Family networks and the Australian pastoral industry: A case study of the Port Phillip District and Victoria during the nineteenth century', Agricultural History, vol. 91, no. 1, 2017.

Review of From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants, 1840–1920, by Rebecca Lenihan, Journal of British Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, 2017, pp. 434-436.

'Landscapes of the dead: History and memory in a distant field of murder', Meanjin, vol. 75, no. 4, 2016.

'Bombs and biodiversity: A case study of military environmentalism in Australia’, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, vol. 15, 2016.

'The Scots in the Western District of Victoria', Genealogical Society of Victoria, October 2016.

'Treacherous objects: A Jacobite compass in Australia?', History Workshop Online, June, 2016.

'Australian environments in war and peace: Toward an environmental history of Australia's defence estate', Australian Historical Association Conference, Ballarat, July, 2016.

'Defence white paper shows Australian forces must safeguard nature', The Conversation, February 26, 2016.

'Lairds of suburbia: Scottish migrant settlement and housing in Australian cities, 1880-1930', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1.

2014-2015

'This continent of smoke: Bushfires and Australian history', Spike: The Meanjin Blog , November 3, 2015.

Review of Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930, by Tanja Bueltmann, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2. 2015, pp. 317-319.

'Beyond Scottish exceptionalism', History Australia, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2015, pp. 248-250.

'Mad Max as Australian Gothic: Don't leave the road if you want to survive', The Guardian Australia, May 2015.

'Space, commemoration, and iconography: Scottish monuments and memorials in Australia', in F Cahir, A Inglis, & A Beggs-Sunter (eds), Scots Under The Southern Cross: Scottish Perspectives Of Australia, Ballarat Heritage Services, Ballarat, 2015.

Review of Bigotry, Football and Scotland, by John Flint and John Kelly (eds.), Cultural and Social History, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 284-285.

'Popular imperialism, Scottish identity, and William Wallace in an Australian colonial city', Etudes écossaises, no. 18, 2015.

'Weaving the tartan: Culture, imperialism, and Scottish identities in Australia, 1788-1938', PhD thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, 2014.

'Water supply and sanitation in nineteenth-century Melbourne', CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, 2014.

'Urban water crises in the 19th and 20th centuries: A bibliographic essay', CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, 2014.

'When William Wallace was a Unionist', Quadrant, April 2014.

'The tie that binds: popular imperialism and the Australian Scottish delegation of 1928', International Review of Scottish Studies, Vol. 39, 2014, pp. 107-136.

'Sites of Scottish memory and identity: A survey of monuments and memorials in Australia', paper presented at the Scottish Australia Symposium, Federation University, Ballarat, 2014.

'Scottish convicts in Australia', History Scotland, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2014, pp. 22-27.

'Warriors of Empire: popular imperialism and the Victorian Scottish Regiment, 1898-1938', Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2014, pp. 73-96.

2011-2013

'Scottish identity in stone: statues of Robert Burns and William Wallace in 19th century Ballarat', Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 84, No. 2, 2013, pp. 279-302.

'Scottish workers and radicals in early twentieth century Australia', Scottish Labour History, Vol. 48, 2013, pp. 74-94.

'Scottish communists in 1930s Australia', History Scotland, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013, pp. 26-32.

with Malcolm Prentis, '"Coming lonely to the land" or "crawlers round the bardie's name": memorials to Robert Burns in Australia', paper presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference, Adelaide, 2012.

'Empire, identity, and the Australian Scottish delegation of 1928', paper presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference, Launceston, 2011.