The Italian Historical Society Journal (first published in 1993) is the only publication of its kind with a focus on the Italian migration story and the Italian contribution to Australian life. It is a source of fascinating stories and valuable research information. Selected issues of the IHS Journal and its forerunner the IHS Newsletter are available below.
Volume 22 - 2014
In this issue:
- Reading Ittalian Australian lives by John Gatt-Rutter
- Between Trieste and Australia: chapters from Mino’s story by Girolamo Favretto
- Fraternising with the enemy: British-iIalian relations, 1939-1947 by Nicole Townsend
- Lest we forget: the urchison Ossario, a sacred Italian grave and war shrine by Mia Spizzica
- The end of the era of abundance in the Aeolian islands and the role of the Società Isole Eolie in channelling migration to Australia by John Barnao
- Politica e cultura in un cenacolo di provincia: lettere di Gino Nibbi e di Acruto Vitali ad Rrmenegildo Catalini by Alfredo Luzi
- La scrittura autobiografica tra antropologia e letteratura: recensione di John Gatt-Rutter, "The Bilingual Cockatoo": writing italian australian lives by Carla Torreggiani
Volume 21 - January-December 2013
In this issue:
- Food, fascism and forward thinking: Australia’s first Italo-Australian cookbook by Tania Cammarano
- The Toppano Brothers by John Whiteoak
- Alessandro Mattei: a 19th century migrant story from ticino by Barbara Mullen
- Angelo Catalano: an unsung Italian Australian hero by Lee Anderson
- Growing up in the wrong country. Autobiography of a second generation Italian in London by Giuseppe Finaldi
- Vivien Achia, marrying Italian: when love is not enough. Book review by John Gatt-Rutter
- Amati e Salia by Giovanni Andreoni
Special Issue: Musical migrants - 2013
In this issue:
- Musical migrants: pictures and stories from the Lucanian community in Melbourne by Alison Rabinovici
- Suonatori di strada, vagabondi e migranti: la costruzione della diversità culturale by Enzo V. Alliegro
- Street musicians, vagrants and migrants: the construction of cultural diversity by Enzo V. Alliegro (translated by Alexander A. Parise)
- Chains and links: the story of a family of travelling musicians from Lucania by Bette Leone
Volume 20 - January-December 2012
In this issue:
- Interview with Sir James Gobbo
- The ities by Jill Maneschi
- The experience of italian assisted migrants in australia during the economic crisis of 1952 by Fabiana Idini
- 'Socialismo per la generazione presente'. Rifugiati politici italiani e movimento socialista australiano by Gianfranco Cresciani
- Immigrants turned activists: Italians in 1970s Melbourne by simone battiston Book review by Luca Marin
Special Issue: Giorgio Mangiamele - 2012
In this issue:
- Foreword by Rosemary Mangiamele
- Giorgio Mangiamele: a life in photography by by Gino Moliterno
- Giorgio Mangiamele in controluce by Federico Passi
- Secret heart. Some personal thoughts on Giorgio Mangiamele's photography by Chris Luscri
Volume 19 - January-December 2011
In this issue:
Community voices
- My carlton years: time of austerity 1937 – 1947 by Nick Storino
- My father Mario Lattanzi by Grania Lattanzi
- Surviving the great depression with Italian ingenuity by Marcus Luigi Spiller
Moments in history
- Fascist salute: the Montecuccoli visits australia 1938 by David Faber
- A communist? Oh, brother by Frank Canu
Culture & the arts
- Early dance music in country Victoria. The Gervasoni contribution by Claude Culvenor
- Vale Peter Piccini. A tribute to one of the most gifted Italian Australian accordionists by John Whiteoak
- Inferno, purgatorio and paradiso: a brief history of Brisbane’s Dante Alighieri Society by Sandra Graham
Essay
- Note sull’emigrazione italiana in Australia by Antonio Cortese
Volume 18 - January-December 2010
In this issue:
- Antonino and Antonio Santospirito of Malfa and Carlton by Tony Santospirito
- From Mezzogiorno to Sydney Seaside: a historical sketch of Italians in Warringah by Malcolm D. Prentis
- The things left behind – thoughts on the passing of my Italian migrant parents by Dorothy Maniero
- Toward a new life by John Maneschi
- Lost in the Collection. 16mm Italian cinema in Australian State film libraries by Federico Passi
- Rediscovering Freedom by Anna Cerreto
Volume 17 - January-December 2009
In this issue:
- The Italian Anarchist Press in Australia between the Wars by David Faber
- Interview with Ivo Vellar
- A Brief History of an Italian Alpine Community: Villa di Tirano by Diego Zoia
- An Accordionist’s Story by Eric Di Losa
- Migration to Australia in the Museum of Carpineto Romano by Italo Campagna
Volume 16, Number 1 - January-June 2008
In this issue:
- Community life: Italian speakers on the Walhalla goldfield 1865-1915 by Anna Davine
- Giuseppe Garibaldi between myth and reality by Gianfranco Cresciani
- Family, friendship and a magic carpet: the music of Franco Cambareri by John Whiteoak
- The struggles of migrant women activists, an exhibition at the Immigration Museum by Valeria Bianchin
- The Enemy Aliens project
- Immigration Bridge Australia
Volume 15 - January-December 2007
In this issue:
- Vale Elda Vaccari. Eulogy read at the Memorial service for Elda Vaccari by G. T. Pagone
- Refractory Migrants. Fascist Surveillance on Italians in Australia 1922–1943 by Gianfranco Cresciani
- Mambo Italiano: Ugo Ceresoli and his Orchestra Mokambo by John Whiteoak
- A Day Out Of The Ordinary by John Maneschi
Volume 14, Number 2 - July-December 2006
In this issue:
- Meeting a marriage partner in a new land: South Australian Calabrian-born women tell their story by Giulia Ciccone
- Italian Internees in Victoria and the Murchison ossario by Vivien Achia
- Surviving adversity: Michael and Zelinda Scarrabelotti's catastrophic journey to NSW 1880-1881 by Dr Frances Thiele
- Piminoro - Olives from Calabria with love by Maria Smith
- Prov's index to outward passangers: from statistics to social history by Susie Leehane
Volume 14, Number 1 - January-June 2006
In this issue:
- Signs of Italian culture in the urban landscape of Carlton by Alice Giulia Dal Borgo
- Italian washing 1973 by Vivien Achia
- From our archives: Italians in Queensland by Filippo Sacchi
- Family history, a new resource for family historians: microfilms of vital records from the archivio tribunale by Alan Poletti
- Poschiavini in Australia, a CD compiled by Hans Fumberger by Alan Poletti
Volume 13 - January-December 2005
In this issue:
- An Australian Mazzinian: Andrew Inglis Clark by Ros Pesman
- Feature of early ethinc Italo-Australian newspapers by Amedeo Tosco
- Calabria in Australia: customs and traditions of Italians from Caulonia by Dr Frances Thiele
- From our archives: Antonio Agostini, newspaper man
- Per l'Australia: the story of Italian Migration
- A man of many talents: Elio Franz by Joy and Gloria Franz
- True story of a girl: Linda Polesel by Linda Polesel
Volume 12, Number 2 - July-December 2004
In this issue:
- A clash of civilisations? Slovene and Italian minorities and the problem of Trieste by Gianfranco Cresciani
- The Peter Bevilacqua story by Tony De Bolfo
- Battista Giudice, 1840–1907 by Dr Geoff Giudice
- Danilo Jovanovitch and the Italian experience in Yarram, Victoria by Raffaele Lampugnani
- In search of Giovanni Fattori’s mercato by Anna Maria Sabbione
Volume 12, Number 1 - January-June 2004
In this issue:
- The Italian-Australia backyard: Italian's sweet little acre by Diana Chessel
- Diary of an immigrant from Trieste by Ondina Demarchi
- Coopers Creek, Gippsland: the trevisani by Diana Ruzzene-Grollo
- Recalling the memories of an haute couturière: Madame Serini by Astrid Haban-Beer
- Bridging two cultures: Italian migrant food in Australia by Zoë Boccabella
Volume 11, Number 2 - July-December 2003
In this issue:
- From ‘terrone’ to ‘wog’: post colonial perspectives on Italian immigration into Australia by Gerardo Papalia
- Introduction and background context to the Italian Diplomatic Archives held at the IHS by Louis Green
- Building blocks of settlement: Italians in the Riverland, South Australia by Desmond O’Connor and Sara King
- Rolani Guido: a prisoner of war in Gippsland by Marian Scarlett
- Growing up Italian and making movies by Jan Sardi
- From our archives: the origin of the Italian language
Volume 11, Number 1 - January-June 2003
In this issue:
- An Italian experience by Malcolm Webster
- Vagabonds rest by Malcolm Webster
- Migration patterns from two communities in Sondrio province: Tirano and Villa di Tirano by Alan Poletti and Emanuela Menghina
- Digging for our Italian roots by Alan Poletti
- Profile - Nino Borsari by Elizabeth Broughton
Volume 10, Number 2 - July-December 2002
In this issue:
- The continuing chain: the migration of Sangiorgesi to Adelaide in the post-war period by Giulia Ciccone and Desmond O’Connor
- The quarryman from Salcedo: Antonio Gnata by Tony De Bolfo
- Pioneer veneti in Gippsland and their role in the development of an Italian farming community by Anna Davine
- L’Italo-Australiano: Australia’s first Italian language newspaper by Francesca A Musicò
Volume 10, Number 1 - January-June 2002
In this issue:
- Italian art in Sydney: Guido Zuliani and Peter Melocco, two interwoven stories of emigration and enterprise by Anne Reynolds
- An ocean liner named Australia by Lorenzo Iozzi
- Envisioning the Italian migrant experience down under: Giorgio Mangiamele, poet of the image by Raffaele Lampugnani
- The Long Tunnel Mine, Italian Hill: hands in the riffles by Ruth Dwyer
Volume 9, Number 2 - July-December 2001
In this issue:
- A thematic history of Italians in Leichhardt: St Fiacre’s by Anne Reynolds
- Italian language print media in Sydney: a short history of La Fiamma newspaper by Anne Reynolds
- The A.P.I.A. Association and the A.P.I.A. club in Leichhardt, Sydney by Anne Reynolds
- Friendly societies: an unexpected source of history on Italian speaking pioneers by Nancy Renfree
- Italian censuses in 19th century New Zealand by Alan Poletti
Volume 9, Number 1 - January-June 2001
In this issue:
- Liste di leva - Draft lists by Alan Poletti
- Constructing the Italian criminal: the press and the Pyjama Girl murder case by Luisa Spitale
- Lena Santospirito, the person by Tony Santospirito
- A visit to Loveday by Laura Mecca
- Luciana D’Urso: my mother (1909–1995) by Salvatore D’Urso
Volume 8, Number 2 - July-December 2000
In this issue:
- Augusto Lorenzini: Italian artist decorator in Victorian Sydney by Megan Martin
- The Archbishop’s Committee for Italian Relief during the internment crisis in Victoria by Kate Elkner
- Genoa to Sydney: Guglielmo Marconi and the illumination of Sydney Town Hall in 1930 by Francesca A Musicò
- From Molinara to Adelaide: the settlement in South Australia of a small southern Italian community by Danielle Carr
- Enterpreneurship and picture frame making in 19th century Australia by Elizabeth Cant
Volume 8, Number 1 - January-June 2000
In this issue:
- Italian settlers in Jacksons Bay Special Settlement, New Zealand 1875–1879 by Adriano Boncompagni
- Walhalla Italians by Winifred Guatta
- New material
- The Pinzone businesses in Stawell and Ararat by Joe Pinzone
- Paolo Dattari, architect: a building by Ruth Dwyer
- The scent of our island>
- Benvenuto Rossi: master of roses by Laurie Burchell
Volume 7, Number 2 - July-December 1999
In this issue:
- Community and Church: Italians in South Australia in the early post-war years by Monica Tolcvay
- One man’s extraordinary relationship with his Italian POWs by John Hall
- Raffaello 'great works': the legacy of an Italian revolutionary to the history of Australia by Angelo Cipullo
- My father, Nazzareno Ganino by Joseph Ganino
Volume 7, Number 1 - January-June 1999
In this issue:
- La Dote: preparing for a family - The importance of the dowry in the Australian Italian family by Maria Tence and Elizabeth Triarico
- From Simonetti to Rubbo: Italian art and artists in late 19th century Sydney by Francesca Musicò
- The Italian Historical Society Photographic Collection by Lorenzo Iozzi
- An Italian in East Timor by James Panichi
Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2 - January-December 1998
In this issue:
- 'Strangers in a strange land': a Rural Community’s Experience with Italian POWs by John Hall
- The Italian Contribution to North-East Victoria by Sir James Gobb, A.C. Governor of Victoria
- Sempre le montagne: Early Italian Settlement in North-East Victoria’s Ovens Valley by Jacqueline Verrocchio
- My Grandfather Giovanni Roberto Merlo by Hazel Merlo
Volume 5, Number 2 - July-December 1997
In this issue:
- Count Giovanni Pullè: A Legacy of Italian Immigration in Australian History by Catherine Dewhirst
- Paolo Dattari, Jewellery and the Italian Court at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880–81 by Ruth Dwyer
- The De Bolfo brothers Introduction by Tony De Bolfo
- Emigrant ships: the Aurelia by Maria Tence
Volume 5, Number 1 - January-June 1997
In this issue:
- "Bad Press": Italian Prisoners of War in Northern NSW, 1943-1945 by John Hall
- Memories of CO.AS.IT. from 1968 to 1982 by Gina Triaca
- From Sicily to Australia: The Story of Vincenzo e Vincenza Dublé by Sr Anna Dublé
- Emigrant ships: the Toscana by Maria Tence
Volume 4, Number 2 - July-December 1996
In this issue:
- Capuchins or Jesuits by Anthony Cappello
- To honour a noted botanist by Ruth Dwyer
- The Altopiano: a historical outline by Patrizio Rigoni
Volume 4, Number 1 - January-June 1996
In this issue:
- Patrimony on parade by Jim Andrighetti
- Australia, the early years - 1923 to 1926
- Jean Virgona: Archbishop Mannix’s Italian housekeeper by Maria Santospirito Triaca
- Italy’s National Independence "for their suffering brethren at home" by Maria Tence
Volume 3, Number 2 - July-August 1995
In this issue:
- The Garibaldi Club - Home to the Italian settlers in Wellington
- Brief history of the development of Italian cuisine in Australia by Vicki Swinbank
- Searching for... by Josephine Toscano
Volume 3, Number 1 - March 1995
In this issue:
- Brief history of the development of Italian Cuisine in Australia by Vicki Swinbank
- An exciting find by Laura Mecca
- Bonegilla - Forty years later. Some observations. by Charles D'Aprano
- The antifascist politics of the novel Mad Meg by Sally Morrison
Volume 2, Number 1 - June 1994
In this issue:
- Port Pirie’s Italians and Fascism by Desmond O’Connor
- Bonegilla rebellions: a first-hand view by Maria Triaca
- 'Little Lon' by Mark Donato
Volume 1, Number 2 - December 1993
In this issue:
- Italian migration to Western Australia before WWI: some observations on ethnicity and conflict by Patrick Bertola
- Internments and Arthur Calwell: the view from Carlton by Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien
- Thank you Mirboo North: holdings of the history of Italians at the Centre for Gippsland Studies by Meredith Fletcher
- Memories of my grandmother... Paulina Julienne Morris (nee Reanda) by Marjorie Huntley
Volume 1, Number 1 - July-August 1993
In this issue:
- Italian Prisoners of War in Gippsland by Philippa Watt and Elizabeth Brooks
- Restless pioneers from San Giovanni Bianco by Dennis Scandolera
- Two cultures meet by Marisa Capuana
Italian Historical Society Newsletter
The Italian Historical Society Newsletter (published between 1989 and 1992) aimed to provide, to those interested in the history of Australian-Italian communities, an outlet for the circulation of news, the exchange of information and the notification of activities.
Volume 3, Number 4 - December 1992
In this issue:
- Correspondence from Valtellina by Tony Pagliaro
- Giuseppe Cantamessa by Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien
- Review of 'On Persephone's Island'
- Review of 'Culture and Community in a changing Society'
- Launch of 'Victoria Market'
Volume 3, Number 2 and 3 - April-September 1992
In this issue:
- Opening of 'Bridging Two Worlds: Jews, Italians and Carlton'
- Address by Dr Ray Marginson
- Address by Mr John Gandel
- Address by Sir James Gobbo
- Address by Zelman Cowen
- Growing up in Carlton by Teresa Pagliaro
- Picnics at the beach by Anna Donchi Scariot
- Pescia's place by Charles D'Aprano
- Matt and Mimi Vita by Elizabeth Wilson
- The Leone Index by Bette Leone Maiuto
Volume 3, Number 1 - January-March 1992
In this issue:
- Exhibition Travels in Italy
- Exhibition at Centro Assisi
- Rubens Exhibition
- Italian Museum in New Orleans
- Proxy Brides by Susi (Bella) Wardrop
- Letter from a subscriber
- The assisted Passage Contract by Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien
- Giovanni Cera Collection
Volume 2, Number 4 - October-December 1991
In this issue:
- The indexing of Victorian foreign inwards passengers records by Kathleen and Ann Gervasoni
- Dott. Soccorso Giorgio Santoro, M.D., M.CH.O. 1902-1961 by Cav. Uff. Dr. Giorgio Romano Santoro
- Memories make history by Fiona McFarlane
Volume 2, Number 3 - July-September 1991
In this issue:
- Exhibition tour completed
- Text on an address to the Italian Historical Society by Sir James Gobbo
- Italian links with Kitchener's Hundred by John C. Trinca
Volume 2, Number 2 - April-June 1991
In this issue:
- My father, Domenico Boffa by Maria Boffa
- Internment records by Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien
- An Italian in the Australian militant left 1927-1983 - Luigi Stellato by G. L. Abiuso
Volume 2, Number 1 - January-March 1992
In this issue:
- "Assisi" Italian Community Centre
- Family history - Comune population registers
- Letters from Swiss-Italian immigrants to Victoria in the 19th century by Tony Pagliaro
Volume 1, Number 4 - September-October-November 1990
In this issue:
- The Anniversary of the Society
- My mother: "La mamma degli italiani" by Maria Santospirito Triaca
- Italians and Swiss-Italians in Victoria in the 1960s by Beppe Maiuto
Volume 1, Number 3 - May-June 1990
In this issue:
- The story of Lorenzo Pensini Snr., his life and times by Emilia Giuditta Pensini
- Family history
- Around Carlton
Volume 1, Number 2 - February 1990
In this issue:
- From Casa D'Italia to CO.AS.IT., the Story of Our Organisation by Sir James Gobbo
- The Leone and Pascale families by Beppe Maiuto
- Family history
Volume 1, Number 1 - November 1989
In this issue:
- The Italian Historical Society
- Family history
