Guide to the Papers of Peter Cochrane
MS 9334; MS Acc10.042; MS Acc18.138
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Peter Cochrane
- Title
- Papers of Peter Cochrane
- Date Range
- 1909 - 2017
- Collection Number
- MS 9334; MS Acc10.042; MS Acc18.138
- Extent
- 2.55 metres (14 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, notes, research material (primarily photocopies) and manuscript drafts relating to the researching and writing of Cochrane's book Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend (1992). The research material gathered by Cochrane documents the life and legend of stretcher-bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. Among the correspondents are Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Jim Henderson, Humphrey McQueen, John Hirst, John Herouvim, Peter Stanley, Barry York, Alan McLean, Craig Munro, Catherine Snowden, Ian Duffield, Chris Pugsley, Barry York, Ann Richter, Renata Howe and Michael Sharkey.(4 boxes).
The Acc10.042 instalment comprises correspondence, research notes, edited chapters, copies of news clippings and awards material relating to Cochrane's book Colonial ambition: foundations of Australian democracy (2006); notes and writing for the TV documentary "The making of modern Australia"; notes, speeches and reviews related to the production of the National Library of Australia's centenary volume Remarkable occurrences (2001); correspondence and notes regarding the 2009 New South Wales Premier's History Awards (8 boxes).
MS Acc18.138 comprises additional papers relating to two of Cochrane's books published in 2018 - 'Best we forget: the war for white Australia 1914-1918' and 'The making of Martin Sparrow' and include annotated drafts and correspondence with editors, historians and the media.(3 boxes).
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn949279).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Peter Cochrane, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were donated to the Library by Dr Peter Cochrane in October 1997. Further papers were added in 2010.
Related Materials
The Library also holds records relating to the periodical Bowyang, which Cochrane co-edited with Humphrey McQueen, at MS 6511.
Arrangement
The original arrangement of the papers has been retained by the Library.
Collection Retrieval Advice
Please note: each class in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Born in Melbourne on 15 April |
| 1974 | Graduated BA (Hons), La Trobe University |
| 1978 | Graduated PhD, University of Adelaide |
| 1978-79 | Research Officer, South Australian Parliamentary Library |
| 1979-80 | Tutor in Politics, University of Adelaide |
| 1980 | Published Industrialisation and dependence: Australia's road to economic development, 1870-1939 |
| 1982-85 | Lecturer in History, University of Sydney |
| 1986-96 | Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney |
| 1992 | Published Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend |
| 1992 | Received Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Award for Non-Fiction |
| 1996 | Awarded Harold White Fellowship |
| 1997- | Honorary Associate in History, University of Sydney |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Born in Melbourne on 15 April |
| 1974 | Graduated BA (Hons), La Trobe University |
| 1978 | Graduated PhD, University of Adelaide |
| 1978-79 | Research Officer, South Australian Parliamentary Library |
| 1979-80 | Tutor in Politics, University of Adelaide |
| 1980 | Published Industrialisation and dependence: Australia's road to economic development, 1870-1939 |
| 1982-85 | Lecturer in History, University of Sydney |
| 1986-96 | Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney |
| 1992 | Published Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend |
| 1992 | Received Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Award for Non-Fiction |
| 1996 | Awarded Harold White Fellowship |
| 1997- | Honorary Associate in History, University of Sydney |
Item Descriptions
Class MS 9334. Original Consignment, 2003 - 2009
.60 metresThis consignment comprises correspondence, photographs, notes, research material (primarily photocopies) and manuscript drafts relating to the researching and writing of Cochrane's book Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend (1992). The research material gathered by Cochrane documents the life and legend of stretcher-bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Jim Henderson, Humphrey McQueen, John Hirst, John Herouvim, Peter Stanley, Barry York, Alan McLean, Craig Munro, Catherine Snowden, Ian Duffield, Chris Pugsley, Ann Richter, Michael Sharkey and Paul Fussell
Papers relating to Chapter 1, specifically to the Reverend Irving Benson and the Simpson legend, 1909-97 (File 3-4) - Box 1 (MS 9334)
Papers and notes on stretcher-bearers, generally relating to Chapter 4 'A saintly bearing', 1915-88 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 9334)
Papers relating to 'the naming problem' in Chapter 5 'The name of unsung heroes', 1915-16 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 9334)
Papers relating to the memorial appeal (1933-36) in Chapter 8 'The ritual centre', 1933-68 (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 9334)
Papers relating to the sculptor Wallace Anderson and the memorial appeal, 1922-91 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 9334)
The School Paper and other school texts dealing with the legend of Simpson and the donkey, 1916-90 (File 17) - Box 3 (MS 9334)
Memorabilia relating to the legend of Simpson and the donkey, including pamphlets, postcards and commemorative items, 1982-91 (File 19) - Box 3 (MS 9334)
Miscellaneous photocopies relating to Simpson and the donkey, 1915-92 (File 21-22) - Box 4 (MS 9334)
Class MS Acc10.042. Consignment received 2010, 1991 - 2009
1.2 metresThis instalment comprises correspondence, research notes, edited chapters, copies of news clippings and awards material relating to Cochrane's book Colonial ambition: foundations of Australian democracy (2006); notes and writing for the TV documentary "The making of modern Australia"; notes, speeches and reviews related to the production of the National Library of Australia's centenary volume Remarkable occurrences (2001); correspondence and notes regarding the 2009 New South Wales Premier's History Awards (8 boxes).
Correspondence, 2006 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Contractual and editorial correspondence with Melbourne University Press, consisting of letters, emails and payment from editorial staff and Rodney Cavalier chairman of the Sesquicentenary committee of Responsible Government History Project
Pictures, 2006 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Publishing permissions involving images for 'Colonial Ambition' consisting of photocopies, emails, handwritten notes and comments
Pictures, 2005 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
A long list with reproductions, photocopies, notes and comments
Corrections, 2006-2008 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Textual changes and amendments, recommendations from the editor and emails and photocopies from the publisher
Book launch, 2006 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Draft of speech together with mainly copies of email correspondence
History of Sydney, 2000 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies of photographs and images
Awards (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Correspondence re: awards, emails from Thomas Keneally, Morag Fraser and others. Invitation to the inaugural Prime Ministers Prize for Australian History; Newspaper cuttings concerning sharing the prize with Les Carlyon
Age Book of the Year, 2006-2008 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Clippings relating to Professor Blainey contesting that Cochrane was the outright winner; reviews
Correspondence, 2002-2004 (File 9) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly emails (approx 10) between Cochrane & Rod Cavalier Sesquicententary committee
Research material, c 2004-c2007 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.042)
Arranged by subject - Masters and Servants bill and an unused discarded chapter (4pp)
ACV Constitutional History, c 2004-c2007 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.042)
Notes and photocopies of the bills 1849-1850
Sydney Morning Herald and Weekly Register 1841-1843, c 2004-c2007 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.042)
Notes and photocopies
The Sydney Chronicle and Bell's Life 1848, c 2004-c2007 (File 19) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.042)
Notes and photocopies
Research notebook, c 2004-c2007 (File 21) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.042)
Research notebook with paste in, inserts and annotations and library request numbers from the stack
Gipps, c 2004-c2007 (File 22) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Personnel: ADB, c 2004-c2007 (File 23) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Charles Cowper 1842-1848, c 2004-c2007 (File 24) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
W.G. Duncan 1840-1843, c 2004-c2007 (File 25) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ruth Knight Lowe 1846, c 2004-c2007 (File 26) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
ACV Melbourne –notes, c 2004-c2007 (File 27) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.042)
Mainly photocopies with notes taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Public meetings, c 2004-c2007 (File 42) - Box 5 (MS Acc10.042)
1850 - including Barrack Square meeting
Newspaper articles, c 2004-c2007 (File 48) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.42)
Photocopies of clippings relating to transportation, Squatter's constitution
Notes from a thesis by Terry Irving, c 2004-c2007 (File 55) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.42)
Relates to NSW Liberalism
Newspaper articles, c 2004-c2007 (File 56) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.42)
Photocopies of articles from 1852, notes
Burke's Speeches and 1848 Election, c 2004-c2007 (File 63) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.42)
Notes for introduction, articles and notes
John West, c 2004-c2007 (File 64) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.42)
Notes and review essays of Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff's biography of West
1847-1848 newspaper articles, c 2004-c2007 (File 65) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.42)
Dinners, 'convicts and coolies', price of land etc
NLA 1901 -2001: Remarkable Occurrences, 1991-2001 (File 66) - Box 8 (MS Acc10.42)
Draft of 'thank you' speech for the launch; Promotional brochures; Photocopy of Eric Rolls article
Making of Modern Australia, 2009 (File 67) - Box 8 (MS Acc10.42)
'Religion & "Romance' notes and script for 2 episodes for the ABC TV documentary 2009
Class MS Acc18.138. Consignment received 2018, 2017
.75 metres, (2 ms boxes + 1 med folio box)This collection comprises additional papers relating to two of Cochrane's books published in 2018 - 'Best we forget: the war for white Australia 1914-1918' and 'The making of Martin Sparrow' and include annotated drafts and correspondence with editors, historians and the media.