Dr Jonathan Richards

Adjunct Research Fellow

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Griffith University

Publications

  • Finnane, Mark and Richards, Jonathan (2024). Speculating about genocide: The Queensland frontier 1859–1897. Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, 64 (1), 34-51. doi: 10.1111/aehr.12278

  • Finnane, Mark and Richards, Jonathan (2023). S.W. Griffith: a suitable case for indictment?. Australian Historical Studies, 54 (3), 387-404. doi: 10.1080/1031461x.2023.2208585

  • Richards, Jonathan and Memmott, Paul (2023). Archibald Meston (1851–1924). Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. 1-3) Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University.

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Richards, Jonathan and Memmott, Paul (2023). Archibald Meston (1851–1924). Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. 1-3) Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University.

  • Richards, Jonathan (2016). Chinese exhumations in Queensland 1880-1930. Rediscovered Past: Chinese Networks. (pp. 76-84) edited by Gordon Grimwade, Kevin Rains and Melissa Dunk . East Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Chinese Heritage In Northern Australia.

  • Richards, Jonathan (2016). ‘There is no truth whatever as regards any Aboriginal being flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula. Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. (pp. 241-262) edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/clu.18.12ric

  • Richards, Jonathan (2014). 'Many were killed from falling over the cliffs’: The Naming of Mount Wheeler, Central Queensland. Indigenous and minority placenames: Australian and international perspectives. (pp. 147-161) edited by Ian D. Clark, Luise Hercus and Laura Kostanski. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press.

  • Richards, Jonathan (2013). 'Black Troopers': Native Police operations in the Townsville district. Lectures in Queensland History. Selected Lectures on Queensland History from the Lectures in Queensland History Series: 30 November 2009 - 27 February 2012. (pp. 74-80) edited by Annette Burns. Townsville, QLD, Australia: Townsville City Council.

  • Richards, Jonathan (2013). Frontier warfare in Australia. Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia to 1915. (pp. 21-38) edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.

  • Richards, Jonathan and Weaver, John (2008). ‘I may as well die as go to the gallows’: murder-suicide in Queensland, 1890-1940. Histories of suicide: international perspectives on self-destruction in the modern world. (pp. 304-328) Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

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