Alan Mayne

'The dreadful scourge': responses to smallpoxin Sydney and Melbourne, 1881-2

A Mayne

Book Chapter  |  2022

Analysis of developing colonial sanitary practice during the last quarter of the nineteenth century confirms the interlocking func..

City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

Alan Mayne

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Historical Studies

Material culture

A Mayne

Book Chapter  |  2016

"our corner of the world": Australian urban history and the poetics of space

A Mayne

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Urban History

This essay reviews urban history research in Australia, arguing that as the field has developed since the 1970s it has become incr..

Beyond Metrics: Reappraising York's Hungate "Slum"

A Mayne

Journal article  |  2011  |  International Journal of Historical Archaeology

Much of the excitement generated in Britain since 2007 by the York Archaeological Trust's excavations of the city's Hungate neighb..

Material culture

A Mayne

Book Chapter  |  2011

Exhibition Reviews

A Mayne, J Warden

Journal article  |  2011  |  History Australia

Guardians at the gate: Quarantine and racialism in two Pacific Rim port cities, 1870-1914

A Mayne

Journal article  |  2008  |  Urban History

This article examines the ambivalent relationship that San Francisco and Darwin developed with Asia during the late nineteenth and..

On the edges of history: Reflections on historical archaeology

A Mayne

Journal article  |  2008  |  American Historical Review

Review essay: Tall tales but true?: New York's “Five Points” Slum

A Mayne

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of Urban History