Jim Fletcher

Australian History, Culture

 

Jim Fletcher taught for 11 years in New South Wales government schools after which he worked for over two decades as an education historian in the history unit of the New South Wales Department of Education.

With Jan Burnswoods he is the co-author of two books:

Sydney and the Bush: A Pictorial History of Education in New South Wales

and

Government Schools of New South Wales Since 1848

and the author of

River, Road and Rail: A History of Kogarah Municipality

Clean, Clad and Courteous: A History of Aboriginal Education in New South Wales

Documents in the History of Aboriginal Education in New South Wales

 

 


Books by Jim Fletcher

Coming to the Wallamba: Early Europeans in the Wallamba Valley and on Cape Hawke/Forster

Coming to the Wallamba: Early Europeans in the Wallamba Valley and on Cape Hawke/Forster

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This book traces the lives of early settlers in the Wallamba Valley and at Forster in New South Wales. Among those included are the Cheers, Basham, Bowers, Carmichael, Croker, Cromarty, Dargaville, Dunn, Everingham, Godwin, Greenaway, Hardy, Matheson, McClymont, McIntosh, McKinnon, Mead, Nixon, Salter and Startin families.