Jules Ginswick papers, ca. 1951-1999

MLMSS 9034

fonds

ca. 1951-1999

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

421308

5.45 metres of textual material (33 boxes)

Professor Jules Ginswick (1914-2001), who was born and educated in London, taught economic history at the University of Sydney from 1950 until his retirement. Between 1971 and 1973 he was editor of the Australian Economic History Review. Ginswick compiled a ‘Select bibliography of pamphlets on Australian economic and social history, 1830-1895’, 1961. He also contributed to several books on economic history including ‘Labour and the poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851: the letters to the Morning chronicle from the correspondents in the manufacturing and mining districts, the towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the rural districts’, edited, with an introduction by J. Ginswick. London: F. Cass, 1983; and ‘Colonial statistics before 1850’, N.G. Butlin, J. Ginswick, P. Statham. Canberra : Australian National University, 1986.

After his retirement, Ginswick continued to research and compile economic statistics relating to the colonial history of New South Wales. He died on 9 April 2001.

References:
Compiled from the collection.

Jules Ginswick papers, ca. 1951-1999. The collection predominantly comprises statistics compiled by Ginswick concerning New South Wales economic history from 1788 to 1850, as well as the history of the Australian Gaslight Company from 1837 to 1966. Material includes handwritten and typescript notes and tables; correspondence; draft book chapters; photocopies of reports, statistics and financial records; pamphlets; brochures and black & white photographs.

BOX 1
General correspondence, ca. 1951-1999
Typescript copy of [Alexander Brodie] Spark’s diary for the period 1836 to 1856; no date

BOX 2
Papers concerning the publication of the book ‘Labour and the poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851: the letters to the Morning chronicle from the correspondents in the manufacturing and mining districts, the towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the rural districts’, edited, with an introduction by J. Ginswick, London, F. Cass, 1983. Material includes correspondence between Ginswick and Frank Cass, typescript and handwritten notes and statistics, advertising and publicity material, draft chapters etc., ca. 1968-1983

BOXES 3-7
Papers relating to Ginswick’s history of the Australian Gaslight Company 1837-1962. Material includes draft chapters, copies of AGL employees’ correspondence, newspaper clippings, statistics, financial records, AGL pamphlets and brochures, ca. 1837-1962.
‘Deed of Covenant of the Australia Gas-Light Company, established 1837: as agreed to at a meeting of the proprietors held in the Sydney, on the day of November, 1837’. David Poole, Solicitor. Sydney James Spilsbury, 1837.
‘Proceedings and Prospects of the Australian Gas-Light Company: 1st January, 1839’. Sydney, NSW: Australian Gas Light Company, 1839.
‘The growth of a great public utility’. The Australian Gas Light Co., 1925: Sydney: Deaton and Spencer

BOX 8
Handwritten notes concerning Maitland and Newcastle in 1857; no date
Statistics, 1861-1900, concerning the economic activity of Sweden; no date
Statistics, 1788-1850, concerning the population of NSW and Tasmania; no date
Statistics, 1822-1850, concerning NSW imports and exports; no date

BOX 9
Photocopies of reports ca. 1838 concerning convicts and transportation
Statistics, 1791-1850, concerning Commissariat receipts and expenditure; no date

BOX 10
Statistics, 1822-1850, concerning NSW imports and exports; no date
Photocopies of records ca. 1790-1850 concerning domestic prices for goods, public accounts, paymasters’ bills etc.

BOX 11
Statistics, 1822-1850, concerning NSW public finances, including NSW Commissariat expenditure and revenue; no date
Statistics,1804-1853,concerning the population of Tasmania; no date

BOX 12
Photocopies of reports and news articles ca. 1831-1850 concerning NSW immigration
Statistics, 1807-1830, concerning domestic prices of goods; no date

BOX 13
Statistics, 1807-1850, concerning domestic prices of goods; no date
Statistics, 1788-1970, concerning the Australian population; no date
Photocopy of ‘Mauri Brothers and Thomson Ltd: Records for Company History’; no date

BOX 14
Statistics, 1789-1850, concerning NSW land grants; no date
Statistics, 1789-1850, concerning NSW land aggregates; no date
Statistics, 1799-1832, concerning town allotment grants; no date

BOX 15
‘The Royal Commission for the improvement of the city of Sydney and its suburbs, plans &c’., 1909: Sydney: photo-lithographed by W.A. Gullick Government Printer
Photocopy of extract of the ‘Progress of the settlement at Swan River’, 1830
Photocopy of ‘Statistical report upon the colony of Western Australia drawn up to the end of June, 1987’
Photocopy of ‘Present state and condition of the colony of Western Australia’, 1838

BOX 16
Statistics, 1788-1850, concerning NSW Commissariat expenditure and revenue; no date
Statistics, 1832-1834, concerning Returns of Land Sold; no date
Statistics, 1786-1901, concerning NSW public finances; no date
Photocopies of pages of the Illustrated London News 1850

BOX 17
Statistics, 1833-1850, concerning NSW Land and Crown revenue and expenditure; no date
Photocopies of ‘Statistics of New South Wales from 1840 to 1849’; ‘New South Wales statistical returns from 1834 to 1843’;
Statistics, 1796 to 1810, concerning NSW land leases, grants, etc.; no date

BOX 18
Notes and statistics, 1841-1961, concerning population density and electoral divisions in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania; no date
Map: ‘Diagram map of the metropolitan district of Sydney shewing the density of population (1891) in the various municipalities’. Sydney: Dept. of Lands, 1893
Map: ‘Diagram map of New South Wales shewing the birthplaces of the people grouped in counties’. Sydney: Dept. of Lands, 1894
Maps concerning statistical divisions and population distributions for NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania ca. 1954-1969

BOX 19
Maps concerning population densities in the Australian states and territories, ca. 1954
Typescript notes for the period ca. 1824 concerning NSW public finances; no date
Typescript notes concerning ‘The Tasmanian trade cycle: the turning point of the forties’ by Jules Ginswick; no date
Typescript lecture notes concerning economic history; no date

BOX 20
Photocopies concerning public finances ca. 1822-1825 concerning public finances in NSW
Notes for the period ca. 1824-1839 concerning public finances in NSW; no date
Notes for the period ca. 1824-1850 concerning the Commissariat Account; no date

BOX 21
Statistics, 1810-1850, concerning NSW commodity prices; no date
Statistics and notes, 1822-1850, concerning NSW public finances; no date

BOXES 22-24
Typescript summary statistics, 1788-1850, concerning colonial expenditure and revenue; the NSW population, including the 1846 census; public finances; NSW imports and exports; colonial revenue and expenditure; land and crown revenue and expenditure; no date

BOXES 25-27
Handwritten, typescript and photocopied statistics, 1788-1850, concerning NSW public finance, land grants, imports and exports, treasury bills, shipping, agriculture, financial statements, NSW 1846 census, and the Tasmanian population; no date
Noel Butlin’s annotations to ‘Towards a private market economy in Australia 1810-40’; no date

BOX 28
45 black & white photographs pasted on cardboard concerning equipment and facilities at the Mortlake site of the Australian Gaslight Company; ca. 1937
Typescript and handwritten notes, 1890-1920,concerning labour mobility in NSW; no date

BOX 29
Typescript and handwritten notes concerning economic history lectures and tutorial topics at the University of Sydney and London School of Economics; no date

BOX 30
‘Select bibliography of pamphlets on Australian economic and social history 1830-1895’ J. Ginswick, Department of Economics, University of Sydney [1961]
Miscellaneous statistics and notes; no date

BOXES 31-33
Copies of student theses and papers, some with comments by Ginswick, ca. 1951-1993

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