Green Square
Histories of Green Square
The name might be new, but the precinct of Green Square – which covers the suburbs of Waterloo, Alexandria, Zetland, Beaconsfield, Rosebery – is an old industrial and residential area with a rich history. Histories of Green Square is a collection of essays that tell some of these stories.
The chapters collected in Histories of Green Square were researched and written by the UNSW students from the 2004 class of Going Public – Public History and the Historian. Both the history course and production of this volume were supervised by Dr Grace Karskens, Senior Lecturer at the School of History, the University of New South Wales.
It was always intended that these histories would be made widely available, in the belief that they would be of interest to planners and developers, public artists, future residents and urban historians. To this end, Histories of Green Square has been made available on the City of Sydney’s website, with the permission of the authors, for research and education purposes.
Chapters
- Introducing the Green Square History Project by Grace Karskens
- Snapshots: Histories of Green Square in Brief by the authors
- The Pre-European Environmental Landscape of Green Square by Jason Doran
- Chimneys and Change: Post-European impact in Green Square by Scott Cumming
- The Aboriginal Diaspora by Alex Sharp
- From Tanning to Planning: an industrial history of Green Square by Susannah Frith
- Waterloo: Whose Fault were the Slums? the power of ideas that shaped the suburb by Jeff Fairman
- Green Square and the Thin Blue Line: crime, law and order in the Green Square area by Scott Vance
- A Course of Action: working class sporting culture at Victoria Park Racecourse 1908 – 1943 by Erik Nielsen
- A History of Pubs Around Green Square 1844 – 2004 by Anna Gauchat
- Alexandria: the birthplace of baby health by Cindy Li
- Exodus & Retreat: the Chinese of Alexandria and Waterloo by Melita Rogowsky
- From German Streets to Russian Libraries: immigration history of Green Square by Susan O’Reilly
- The Roots of Green Square: a planning history by Tessa Endelman
- Endnotes
Histories of Green Square was published by the School of History, UNSW, with assistance from the City of Sydney in 2004. It is available for purchase from any Council Location for $17.85.
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Last Updated: Wednesday 12 December, 2007
