lament for lost footnotes in legal history
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Keynote address by Professor Rosalind Croucher* on 12 December 2011 at the 30th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand law and history society—"Public Law: Private Lives"TRANSCRIPT
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A LAMENT FOR LOST FOOTNOTES IN LEGAL HISTORY
Professor Rosalind F Croucher
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FOOTNOTE ONE
‘Behind this case there lies quite a story’
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Colonel A D Wintle
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Colonel A D Wintle
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FOOTNOTE TWO
‘The judge had been committed to a lunatic asylum’
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John Fletcher Hargrave, a1335001 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
John Fletcher Hargrave
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Ann Hargrave
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Powerhouse Museum,SydneyP2903-9/17
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Colney Hatch, Middlesex
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Colney Hatch, Middlesex
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Artist unknown, Australian school Date c1889
Sir Alfred Stephen
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‘It was a clever and strategic political compromise’
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FOOTNOTE THREE
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The 1890s
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The 1890s
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National Council of Women
17 National Council of Women, Christchurch, 1896, Reference Number: 1/2-041798-F, National Library of New Zealand,
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Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout
18 Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout in the photograph used for their 1924 Christmas card, ca 1924, Reference Number: 1/2-147835-F, National Library of New Zealand, http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=3263
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Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout
Portrait of Robert Stout, 1885, Anna Patterson Stout, circa 1888 Reference Number: 1/2-098553-F Reference Number: 1/2-002687-F. Object #15982 National Library of New Zealand
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Robert McNab
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Alexander Turnbull Library, SP Andrew Collection (PAColl-3739)Reference: 1/1-014360; G. Photograph by Stanley P. Andrew
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‘The Act was backdated’
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FOOTNOTE FOUR
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John Norton
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John Norton, Editor of The Truth Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Lala Fisher - papers, 1895-1981, MLMSS 6432
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John Norton
Image from the Randwick City Library and Information Service
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John Norton
Images from the Randwick City Library and Information Service
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Ezra Norton
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‘He was a second son’
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FOOTNOTE FIVE
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Peter John Locke King
by John & Charles Watkins
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Hang on to your footnotes …They’re special!
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