Jeff Hopkins-Weise

Jeff Hopkins-Weise is a professional historian and museum officer with a strong interest and background in Australian, New Zealand and Pacific social and military history. He has particular expertise and interest in the role and experience of the British Army in colonial Queensland, Australia and New Zealand, the early colonial volunteer movement, as well as the Australian involvement in the New Zealand wars of the 1840s and 1860s. He has published extensively on many of these historical themes, as well as other aspects of Queensland and Australian history. Jeff also has a considerable background and experience in cultural heritage research and management while engaged in various capacities for the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, and most recently with curatorial and collection management roles with the Queensland Museum. He is an active volunteer curator/collection manager for the Australian Army's Victoria Barracks Museum - Brisbane (Petrie Terrace), and is both a member and a director of the Queensland Military Heritage Foundation that helps operate this museum in co-operation with the Army History Unit. Jeff is a Commissioner for Declarations (Qld), and holds membership with Museums Australia, Royal Historical Society of Queensland, New Zealand Military Historical Society, and the Orders and Medals Research Society. He has been a Professional member of the Professional Historians Association (Qld) since July 1999, and is currently Vice President (appointed August 2006) and Membership Secretary (appointed September 2005), was a former Honorary Secretary (2002-06), and is a long-term member of the Management Committee.

Skills and services offered:
Social and military history
Historical research and reports
Heritage studies/surveys
Museum curator/collection manager
Museum advice and exhibitions

Professional interests:
History of Queensland, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Role of the British Army in colonial Australia and New Zealand, with a special interest on the Queensland experience.
The early Queensland volunteer movement, including the role of serving (or former) British military personnel on this movement's development, training, and colonial defence.

Qualifications: M.Phil, BA(Hons), C.dec, MPHA(Qld)

Publications and experience:
Books:
(Co-authored with Rod Pratt) Brisbane's 1st Battalion 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment Detachments, 1860-66. Brisbane: Jeff Hopkins-Weise & Rod Pratt, 2005
Brisbane's 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Detachments, 1866-69: & the Saint Helena Penal Establishment Military Guard. Brisbane: Jeff Hopkins-Weise & Rod Pratt, 2004
(Co-authored with Rod Pratt) Brisbane's 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Detachments, 1866-69: & the Saint Helena Penal Establishment Military Guard. Brisbane: 2004
Further selected New Zealand War Medal Rolls of Applications Granted up to 1900: Volume 2. Brisbane: Jeffrey Hopkins and supported by the Victoria Barracks Historical Society, 1998
Selected New Zealand War Medal Rolls of Entitlements, Rejections, and Applications Granted up to 1900. Brisbane: Jeffrey Hopkins & the Victoria Barracks Historical Society, 1997
The Gottlieb Raddatz & extended Kühn & Sellin families & descendants of Queensland: including the associated Heeschen, Raaen, & Schubert families. 125th Anniversary of the arrival aboard the "Reichstag" of the Raddatz, Kühn, & Sellin Families to Queensland on 1 August 1872. Brisbane: 1997.

ARTICLES & NEWSLETTERS
"Australia's Logistical and Commissariat Support in the New Zealand Wars, 1863-66", Sabretache, Dec. 2006, Vol.47, No.4, pp. 5-24.
"A History of the Service and Loss of the Queensland Government Steamer Llewellyn, 1884-1919", Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Cultural Heritage Series, 1 November 2006, Vol.4, Part 1, pp.29-51.
"Australia and the Taranaki War - 3: Humanitarianism, 1860-61", The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, Vol.32, No.2, (November 2006), pp. 102-119.
"Australia and the Taranaki War - 2: Logistical, commissariat and manpower support, 1860-61", The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, Vol.32, No.1, (July 2006), pp. 27-49.
"Australia and the Taranaki War: Responses to the conflict 1860-61", The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, March 2006, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 160-175.
"Australian involvement in the New Zealand Wars, 1846-47 (Part 3)" in The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, Vol.30, No.3, (March 2005), pp.36-51
"Australian involvement in the New Zealand Wars, 1845-46", in The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, November 2004, Vol.30, No.2, pp.33-52.
"Tasmania and the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s", Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, September 2003, Vol.50, No.3, pp.176-201. [NB. - Also republished with permission in, The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, March 2004, Vol.29, No.3, pp.67-96.
"The Australian-New Zealand prelude, 1834-45", The Volunteers, July 2004, Vol.30, No.1, pp.38-53.
"Van Diemen's Land and the New Zealand Wars of the 1840s", Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, Mar 2003, Vol.50, No.1, pp.38-55. [NB. - also republished in, The Volunteers, Nov. 2003, Vol.29, No.2, pp.23-41.]
"Queensland and the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s", Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Feb. 2003, Vol.18, No.5, pp.209-231. [NB. - also republished in, The Volunteers, July 2003, Vol.29, No.1, pp.12-29.]
"Pacific Islander involvement in the pastoral industry of the Gulf of Carpentaria" in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, June 2002, Vol.88, Part 1, pp.36-53.
(Co-authored with Rod Pratt) "New Directions in Australian colonial historiography: A call for the timely reintegration of the British Army, frontier conflict, and involvement in wars of Empire", in C. Dixon & L. Auton, eds., War, society, and culture: Approaches and issues: Selected papers from the November 2001 Symposium organised by the Research Group for War, Society, and Culture, NSW: 2002, pp.105-116.
"New Zealand's armed constabulary and its Australian context, 1867-72", Sabretache, December 2002, Vol.43, No.4, pp.19-38.
"A brief history of the award of the New Zealand Cross", The Volunteers, Nov. 2002, Vol.28, No.2, pp. 96-99.
"New Zealand's Colonial Defence Force (Cavalry) and its Australian context, 1863-66", Sabretache, Sept. 2002, Vol.43, No.3, pp.23-39.
(Co-authored with Rod Pratt), "The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Military Guard at the St Helena Penal Establishment, Moreton Bay, 1867-69", Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Aug. 2002, Vol.18, N0.3, pp.97-114.
"A brief history of the Bay of Plenty Cavalry Volunteers, Tauranga Cavalry Volunteers, and the Opotiki Rangers Volunteers", The Volunteers, July 2002, Vol. 28, No.1, pp. 66-70.
"Pacific Islander involvement in the pastoral industry of the Gulf of Carpentaria" in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, June 2002, Vol.88, Part 1, pp.36-53.
"St Helena Artefact Project", Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Inc. Newsletter, 2001, Vol.31, No.1, p.4.
"The Armed Constabulary of New Zealand: and the Australian context", The Volunteers, July 2001, Vol.27, No.1, pp.5-42.
(Co-authored with Rod Pratt), "The scarlet legacy: The British Army's forgotten presence in Moreton Bay, 1860-69", Sabretache, June 2001, Vol.42, No.2, pp.3-38; & editor's Correction, Sept. 2001, Vol.42, No.3, p.1.
"A history of the Colonial Defence Force (Cavalry): and the Australian context", The Volunteers, July 2000, Vol.26, No.1, pp.5-25.
"'Fighting those who came against their country' : Maori political transportees to Van Diemen's Land 1846-48", Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, Mar. 1997, Vol.44, No.1, pp.49-67. [NB. - also republished in, The Volunteers, (Mar. 1999, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 100-117.]
"The place of 'Foreign' Pacific Islanders in Torres Strait and Papua, 1863-1878", in Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol.15, No.12, (August 1995), pp.571-578.


Address: PO Box 948, Singleton NSW 2330 [temporary during Feb.-Nov. 2008]
Mobile: 0418 717 961
E-mail: Jeff Hopkins-Weise
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