Willis, Ian

Overview

Dr Willis is a local studies specialist and has a particular interest in community identity, place making and the Red Cross in Australia.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	¿My box of memories¿: An Australian Country Girl Goes to London Published in Anglica an international journal of English studies
2021	Conservatism and the Flapper
2021	Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch, a Scholarly Reflection
2020	Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia Published in Hektoen International Journal
2020	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in New South Wales: Parochialism, mythmaking and identity. Published in Media History
2018	Utopia or Dystopia: A Contested Space on Sydney’s Urban Frontier
2017	A new horizon on Sydney's urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases Published in ISAA Review
2016	'Just like England', a colonial settler landscape Published in ISAA Review
2014	Ministering Angels, The Camden District Red Cross, 1914-1945
2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics: issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe

Research Areas

2103 - HISTORICAL STUDIES

Research Overview

The Australian Red Cross 1914 to 1945
The Cowpastures district of New South Wales 1795 to 1840
Urban Growth on Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe 1948 to the present
Modernism in New South Wales
Local newspapers in the Macarthur region of New South Wales 1880 to the present
Travellers and tourists journeying to Europe from Australia, particularly young single women.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Member Of

Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Member 2018 -
History Council of New South Wales Member 2018 -
Australian Historical Association Member 2010 -
Camden Historical Society Inc President 2017-2019 1995 -
Independent Scholars Association of Australia
Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT)

Attended Event

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Camden History v5 n1 Published In Camden History
2021	The Bells of Sydney's St James' Church Ring Out Published In History
2021	¿My box of memories¿: An Australian Country Girl Goes to London Published In Anglica an international journal of English studies
2020	Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia Published In Hektoen International Journal
2020	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in New South Wales: Parochialism, mythmaking and identity. Published In Media History
2018	Despite the doom and gloom in Australian media, the outlook for regional papers remains strong Published In The Conversation
2018	Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire Published In The District reporter
2017	A new horizon on Sydney's urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases Published In ISAA Review
2017	Circular Quay Railway Station A Piece of Sydney Modernism Published In Spirit of Progress: Journal of Art Deco and Modernism Society of Autralia

2016	'Just like England', a colonial settler landscape Published In ISAA Review



2015	'Doing Their Bit', The Red Cross on the New South Wales Homefront During the First World War Published In History


2013	Imaginings on the edge: myth, mourning and memory in Sydney's fringe communities Published In Sydney Journal



2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics; Issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe Published In AQ (Balmain): Journal of Contemporary Analysis








2010	Oran Park Published In Sydney Journal
2005	Wartime Volunteering in Camden Making a Home in The Bush Published In History Australia

Book

Year	Title

2014	Ministering Angels, The Camden District Red Cross, 1914-1945 Publisher Camden

Chapter

Year	Title
2014	Foreward Published In Camden's WWI Diggers: 1914 to 1918 Publisher Camden

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Utopia or Dystopia: A Contested Space on Sydney’s Urban Frontier Published In Remaking cities urban history planning history Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference 2018
2017	Silent Anzacs: Red Cross convalescent homes in NSW, 1914-1916 Published In Entangled Histories: Australian Historical Association 36th Annual Conference Abstracts


2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics: issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe Published In Urban Transformations: Booms, Busts and Other Catastrophes: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference

Other Publications

Year	Title
2022	A local nursery on Sydney¿s urban fringe
2022	The post-war years for a local nursery
2022	Waley Convalescent Home at Mowbray Park
2021	A celebration of a landscape of cows at Oran Park
2021	A century of horticulture for a local nursery
2021	A funny little dunny draws controversy
2021	An amazing woman, Sheila Murdoch
2021	Bottled milk and hygienic dairies: agricultural modernism
2021	Camden Airfield and the Bellman Hangars
2021	Camden Edwardian Cottages
2021	Camden Show Sponsors¿ Night
2021	Camden War Cemetery
2021	Camden and its French Connections
2021	Camden realism and storytelling
2021	Camden, the best preserved country town on the Cumberland Plain
2021	Camden¿s carpenters
2021	Camden¿s heritage inventory
2021	Capturing the distance of the past
2021	Cowpastures Memorial, Picton
2021	Cowpastures artwork at Harrington Park Lake
2021	Fall of Singapore and the Camden response
2021	Four bridges and the Nepean River crossing
2021	Hard-bitten local newspaper identities
2021	Jacaranda fever hits Camden
2021	Local girls go to London
2021	Local identities, Colin and Dorothy Clark
2021	Macarthur Bridge
2021	Motherhood and nation-building in the early 20th century
2021	Mundane objects tell an interesting story
2021	Narellan `Gayline¿ Drive-In Movie Theatre
2021	New exhibition at Alan Baker Art Gallery
2021	Sunday sport banned in Camden
2021	The Bulls are loose on the paddock ¿ football and Macarthur regionalism
2021	The West Journal
2021	The enduring appeal of a rural pageant
2021	Top gong goes to local architecture
2020	The Camden News affronted by Sydney `flappers¿ and the appearance of the modern girl.
2022	Plant Nurseries in Australian History
2021	A grand exhibit for a pandemic
2021	Bush carpentry became a craft
2021	Camden and its French Connections during the First World War
2021	Conservatism and the Flapper
2021	Crazy Colourful Koalas on the prowl
2021	Funny Little Dunny Controversy
2021	Local captured in Fall of Singapore
2021	Macarthur Women in Business
2021	Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch, a Scholarly Reflection
2021	Spring Farm rural to residential
2021	The Day Sport Was Banned
2021	The Distance of the Past
2021	The bridge across the Nepean
2021	The day sport was banned on Onslow Park
2020	Mural dedicated to Camden's early days
2020	A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures
2020	A little black cocktail fantasy
2020	Architecture in the interwar years
2020	Camden's own tram the Pansy
2020	Community bands hit the right note
2020	Formidable women of Camden
2020	The valley: A lost Gothic fantasy
2020	The versatility of the Nepean River
2020	Airds shopping centre demolition symbolic of planning failures
2020	History will record how Camden adapted to a modern pandemic
2020	Iconic council buildings were built on hope
2020	Knitting socks was a patriotic act
2020	Macarthur Bridge built to connect Camden
2020	Social distancing of yesteryears
2020	The trainee teachers' mystery of 1924
2019	A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures
2019	A little black cocktail fantasy
2019	Architecture in the interwar years
2019	Camden's own tram the Pansy
2019	Community bands hit the right note
2019	Formidable women of Camden
2019	The valley: A lost Gothic fantasy
2019	The versatility of the Nepean River
2018	Elizabeth Macarthur A Life At the Edge of the World
2021	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in NSW

Collection Or Series Editor For

Camden History (Journal)
Camden History Notes (Blog)

Editor Of

Webpage
- Camden History Notes

Presentations

Featured In

Australian Historical Association Blog Posting
Australian Quarterly Journal
Camden History Journal
Camden History Notes
Dictionary of Sydney Journal
Elizabeth Villy, Red Poppies and the White Waratah, Heroines of the Great War from Wollondilly. The Oaks Historical Society: The Oaks, 2016. Bibliographic Information Source
Health and History Journal
Hektoen International Journal Article
History Australia Journal
History Workshop Online Journal
History Workshop, ‘Local history: a view from the bottom‘, 5 December 2016 Blog Posting
Honest History Blog Posting
ISAA Review Journal
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales Journal
Journal of the Australian War Memorial Journal
Melanie Oppenheimer, All Work No Pay, Australian Civilian Volunteers in War. Walcha, NSW: Ohio Publcns, 2002 Bibliographic Information Source
Sarah Glassford, Mobilizing Mercy, A History of the Canadian Red Cross. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 Book Bibliographic Information Source
Spirit of Progress Journal
Sydney Journal Journal
The District Reporter Journal

Other Research Activities

Local newspapers of the Macarthur region, NSW. 1880-2018. Lead researcher 2018 -
Menangle Urban Development Research Project Lead Researcher 2017 -

Outreach Overview

I am a public historian who encourages and advocates on behalf of community and local history.

Reviewer Of

Men, myth and memory | Dr Jen Roberts | UOW (Speech) - 2017

Organizer Of Event

Primary Teacher History Syllabus Workshop, Camden Museum 2018 -

Professional Service Activities

Camden Council Heritage Advisory Committee Representative for Camden Historical Society Inc 2018 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

South Western Sydney Tourism Taskforce Tour Leader Walk Through Historic Camden Town Centre 2018 -
Camden Museum President Camden Historical Society Inc

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Wollongong 2004

Credentials

Doctor of Philosophy, 2004

Awards And Honors

Officer of the Order of Australia, 2019
Life Member, conferred by Camden Historical Society Inc, 2017

Keywords

Red Cross, place, identity, Camden NSW, Sydney's rural-urban fringe, home front, philanthropy, active citizenship, advocacy, volunteering, colonial NSW, landscape aesthetic, settler colonialism,

Full Name

Dr Ian Willis

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	¿My box of memories¿: An Australian Country Girl Goes to London Published in Anglica an international journal of English studies
2021	Conservatism and the Flapper
2021	Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch, a Scholarly Reflection
2020	Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia Published in Hektoen International Journal
2020	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in New South Wales: Parochialism, mythmaking and identity. Published in Media History
2018	Utopia or Dystopia: A Contested Space on Sydney’s Urban Frontier
2017	A new horizon on Sydney's urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases Published in ISAA Review
2016	'Just like England', a colonial settler landscape Published in ISAA Review
2014	Ministering Angels, The Camden District Red Cross, 1914-1945
2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics: issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe

Research Areas

2103 - HISTORICAL STUDIES

Research Overview

The Australian Red Cross 1914 to 1945
The Cowpastures district of New South Wales 1795 to 1840
Urban Growth on Sydney's Rural-Urban Fringe 1948 to the present
Modernism in New South Wales
Local newspapers in the Macarthur region of New South Wales 1880 to the present
Travellers and tourists journeying to Europe from Australia, particularly young single women.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Member Of

Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Member 2018 -
History Council of New South Wales Member 2018 -
Australian Historical Association Member 2010 -
Camden Historical Society Inc President 2017-2019 1995 -
Independent Scholars Association of Australia
Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT)

Attended Event

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Camden History v5 n1 Published In Camden History
2021	The Bells of Sydney's St James' Church Ring Out Published In History
2021	¿My box of memories¿: An Australian Country Girl Goes to London Published In Anglica an international journal of English studies
2020	Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia Published In Hektoen International Journal
2020	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in New South Wales: Parochialism, mythmaking and identity. Published In Media History
2018	Despite the doom and gloom in Australian media, the outlook for regional papers remains strong Published In The Conversation
2018	Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire Published In The District reporter
2017	A new horizon on Sydney's urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases Published In ISAA Review
2017	Circular Quay Railway Station A Piece of Sydney Modernism Published In Spirit of Progress: Journal of Art Deco and Modernism Society of Autralia

2016	'Just like England', a colonial settler landscape Published In ISAA Review



2015	'Doing Their Bit', The Red Cross on the New South Wales Homefront During the First World War Published In History


2013	Imaginings on the edge: myth, mourning and memory in Sydney's fringe communities Published In Sydney Journal



2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics; Issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe Published In AQ (Balmain): Journal of Contemporary Analysis








2010	Oran Park Published In Sydney Journal
2005	Wartime Volunteering in Camden Making a Home in The Bush Published In History Australia

Book

Year	Title

2014	Ministering Angels, The Camden District Red Cross, 1914-1945 Publisher Camden

Chapter

Year	Title
2014	Foreward Published In Camden's WWI Diggers: 1914 to 1918 Publisher Camden

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Utopia or Dystopia: A Contested Space on Sydney’s Urban Frontier Published In Remaking cities urban history planning history Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference 2018
2017	Silent Anzacs: Red Cross convalescent homes in NSW, 1914-1916 Published In Entangled Histories: Australian Historical Association 36th Annual Conference Abstracts


2012	Townies, ex-urbanites and aesthetics: issues of identity on Sydney's rural-urban fringe Published In Urban Transformations: Booms, Busts and Other Catastrophes: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference

Other Publications

Year	Title
2022	A local nursery on Sydney¿s urban fringe
2022	The post-war years for a local nursery
2022	Waley Convalescent Home at Mowbray Park
2021	A celebration of a landscape of cows at Oran Park
2021	A century of horticulture for a local nursery
2021	A funny little dunny draws controversy
2021	An amazing woman, Sheila Murdoch
2021	Bottled milk and hygienic dairies: agricultural modernism
2021	Camden Airfield and the Bellman Hangars
2021	Camden Edwardian Cottages
2021	Camden Show Sponsors¿ Night
2021	Camden War Cemetery
2021	Camden and its French Connections
2021	Camden realism and storytelling
2021	Camden, the best preserved country town on the Cumberland Plain
2021	Camden¿s carpenters
2021	Camden¿s heritage inventory
2021	Capturing the distance of the past
2021	Cowpastures Memorial, Picton
2021	Cowpastures artwork at Harrington Park Lake
2021	Fall of Singapore and the Camden response
2021	Four bridges and the Nepean River crossing
2021	Hard-bitten local newspaper identities
2021	Jacaranda fever hits Camden
2021	Local girls go to London
2021	Local identities, Colin and Dorothy Clark
2021	Macarthur Bridge
2021	Motherhood and nation-building in the early 20th century
2021	Mundane objects tell an interesting story
2021	Narellan `Gayline¿ Drive-In Movie Theatre
2021	New exhibition at Alan Baker Art Gallery
2021	Sunday sport banned in Camden
2021	The Bulls are loose on the paddock ¿ football and Macarthur regionalism
2021	The West Journal
2021	The enduring appeal of a rural pageant
2021	Top gong goes to local architecture
2020	The Camden News affronted by Sydney `flappers¿ and the appearance of the modern girl.
2022	Plant Nurseries in Australian History
2021	A grand exhibit for a pandemic
2021	Bush carpentry became a craft
2021	Camden and its French Connections during the First World War
2021	Conservatism and the Flapper
2021	Crazy Colourful Koalas on the prowl
2021	Funny Little Dunny Controversy
2021	Local captured in Fall of Singapore
2021	Macarthur Women in Business
2021	Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch, a Scholarly Reflection
2021	Spring Farm rural to residential
2021	The Day Sport Was Banned
2021	The Distance of the Past
2021	The bridge across the Nepean
2021	The day sport was banned on Onslow Park
2020	Mural dedicated to Camden's early days
2020	A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures
2020	A little black cocktail fantasy
2020	Architecture in the interwar years
2020	Camden's own tram the Pansy
2020	Community bands hit the right note
2020	Formidable women of Camden
2020	The valley: A lost Gothic fantasy
2020	The versatility of the Nepean River
2020	Airds shopping centre demolition symbolic of planning failures
2020	History will record how Camden adapted to a modern pandemic
2020	Iconic council buildings were built on hope
2020	Knitting socks was a patriotic act
2020	Macarthur Bridge built to connect Camden
2020	Social distancing of yesteryears
2020	The trainee teachers' mystery of 1924
2019	A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures
2019	A little black cocktail fantasy
2019	Architecture in the interwar years
2019	Camden's own tram the Pansy
2019	Community bands hit the right note
2019	Formidable women of Camden
2019	The valley: A lost Gothic fantasy
2019	The versatility of the Nepean River
2018	Elizabeth Macarthur A Life At the Edge of the World
2021	Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in NSW

Collection Or Series Editor For

Camden History (Journal)
Camden History Notes (Blog)

Editor Of

Webpage
- Camden History Notes

Presentations

Featured In

Australian Historical Association Blog Posting
Australian Quarterly Journal
Camden History Journal
Camden History Notes
Dictionary of Sydney Journal
Elizabeth Villy, Red Poppies and the White Waratah, Heroines of the Great War from Wollondilly. The Oaks Historical Society: The Oaks, 2016. Bibliographic Information Source
Health and History Journal
Hektoen International Journal Article
History Australia Journal
History Workshop Online Journal
History Workshop, ‘Local history: a view from the bottom‘, 5 December 2016 Blog Posting
Honest History Blog Posting
ISAA Review Journal
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales Journal
Journal of the Australian War Memorial Journal
Melanie Oppenheimer, All Work No Pay, Australian Civilian Volunteers in War. Walcha, NSW: Ohio Publcns, 2002 Bibliographic Information Source
Sarah Glassford, Mobilizing Mercy, A History of the Canadian Red Cross. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 Book Bibliographic Information Source
Spirit of Progress Journal
Sydney Journal Journal
The District Reporter Journal

Other Research Activities

Local newspapers of the Macarthur region, NSW. 1880-2018. Lead researcher 2018 -
Menangle Urban Development Research Project Lead Researcher 2017 -

Outreach Overview

I am a public historian who encourages and advocates on behalf of community and local history.

Reviewer Of

Men, myth and memory | Dr Jen Roberts | UOW (Speech) - 2017

Organizer Of Event

Primary Teacher History Syllabus Workshop, Camden Museum 2018 -

Professional Service Activities

Camden Council Heritage Advisory Committee Representative for Camden Historical Society Inc 2018 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

South Western Sydney Tourism Taskforce Tour Leader Walk Through Historic Camden Town Centre 2018 -
Camden Museum President Camden Historical Society Inc

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Wollongong 2004

Credentials

Doctor of Philosophy, 2004

Awards And Honors

Officer of the Order of Australia, 2019
Life Member, conferred by Camden Historical Society Inc, 2017

Keywords

Red Cross, place, identity, Camden NSW, Sydney's rural-urban fringe, home front, philanthropy, active citizenship, advocacy, volunteering, colonial NSW, landscape aesthetic, settler colonialism,

Full Name

Dr Ian Willis

Geographic Location

University of Wollongong

Located In Facility

Building 19.1007

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1751-8263 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Attended Event

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Collection Or Series Editor For

Editor Of

Webpage

Presentations

Invited Talk

Presentation

Featured In

Funding

Other Research Activities

Service

Outreach Overview

Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Credentials

Awards And Honors

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Attended Event

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Collection Or Series Editor For

Editor Of

Webpage

Presentations

Invited Talk

Presentation

Featured In

Funding

Other Research Activities

Service

Outreach Overview

Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Credentials

Awards And Honors

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Geographic Location