John Waugh

The Legal Profession Between the Wars

John Waugh

Book Chapter  |  2019

This volume provides a new account of the interwar years that places knowledge and expertise at the heart of the Australian story.

The Big Hill Murder and the Colonial Death Penalty

J Waugh

Journal article  |  2018  |  Provenance : The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria

This article is a case study of the way the decision to commute a death sentence was reached. The Big Hill murder attracted intens..

Settlement

J Waugh

Book Chapter  |  2018

A Sodomy Case in Colonial Melbourne: The Prison Letters of George Bateson

John Waugh

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Australian Colonial History

In February 1861 a newly arrived prisoner in Melbourne's Pentridge prison began a long series of letters in which he tried to clea..

Starke, Sir John Erskine (1913–1994) and Starke, Elizabeth Monica (1912–1992)

John Waugh

Reference Work  |  2018

Capital Punishment in Colonial Victoria: The Role of the Executive Council

J Waugh

Journal article  |  2017  |  VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

The Judges and Their Court 1852–1900

J WAUGH

Book Chapter  |  2016

David Syme: Man of the Age

John Waugh

Journal article  |  2015  |  VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

Cowen as Life-Writer: Sidelights from the Archives

J WAUGH

Journal article  |  2015  |  Melbourne University Law Review

Biography is an unusual choice of subject for a legal academic, but for Zelman Cowen it was a recurring interest. This article, ba..

Book review: David Syme: Man of the Age

J WAUGH

Journal article  |  2015  |  Victorian Historical Journal