The English in Australia

Looks at Australia in terms of English immigration and settlement over two centuries.

Australia has historically had very strong links with England, and the English have always accounted for a significant portion of the Australian population. In this 2004 book, James Jupp provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had on Australian life. Beginning with familiar stories of convicts, explorers, and early settlers, and then the various waves of immigration over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book concludes with reflections on today's English immigrants, now considered 'foreigners'. Anyone interested in tracing their ancestry - both Australian and English - will find this book compelling reading, and helpful in bringing to life senses of the places, conditions, and occupations that their ancestry lived through.

1. Introduction; 2. Who were the English?; 3. Convicts and labourers; 4. Farmers, miners and artisans; 5. An English upper class?; 6. From colonies to commonwealth; 7. 'Bringing out Britons'; 8. The English minority; 9. Conclusion - the English as a minority in an English-speaking society.

This 2004 book provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had on Australian life. Anyone interested in tracing their ancestry - both Australian and English - will find this book compelling reading.

James Jupp is Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies at the Australian National University. His many publications include, as general editor, The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and Their Origins (second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2001).