John Myrtle (myrtle@webone.com.au) is a Canberra-based researcher and former librarian. John has a database of thousands of Australian history references dating from the early 20th century to the 1970s. Honest History has, for resource reasons, tended to concentrate on material more recent than this, so John’s focus on this earlier period complements Honest History’s collection.
John’s database offers full citations and sometimes a brief comment. Depending on your subject matter needs, John may be able to assist. Honest History is pleased to be able to facilitate use of John’s valuable resource.
John will also be contributing an occasional ‘Online Gems’ column to Honest History, drawing upon his database. Here they are:
No. 2: Royalty in the Australian Women’s Weekly
No. 3: Canberra’s 1940 air crash
No. 4: Medico-Legal Society of Victoria
No. 5: Medico-Legal Society of Victoria: the experience of war
No. 6: Selected political records of the Commonwealth Parliament
No. 7: Antarctica frozen in Canberra street names
No. 8: Betty Cuthbert, champion athlete
No. 9: Peter Norman: Australia’s greatest male sprinter
No. 10: Official histories of Australia at war
No. 11: The Airlines of Australia Stinson plane crash, 1937
No. 12: David Scott Mitchell and his library, a Sydney icon
No. 13: Researching Australia’s prime ministers
No. 14: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet: an Australian Nobel Prize winner
13 October 2015 and updated