Resources on Alfred Deakin

See also : Our namesake  |  Alfred Deakin's Legacy 

Digital collections 

• Alfred Deakin’s manuscript collection is held at the National Library of Australia. 
• A listing of Alfred Deakin’s personal library is kept at LibraryThing. 
• Deakin University Library maintains an online image collection relating to Alfred Deakin. 
• Rare works authored by Alfred Deakin and his father-in-law Hugh Junor Browne have been digitised by Deakin University Library. 

Print collections 

Learn more about the life and times of Alfred Deakin with these titles:

Biographical Works

• Brett, Judith “Alfred Deakin’s Childhood: books, a boy and his mother” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 1, no. 43, 2012: pp. 61-77. 
• Brett, Judith The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, Text Publishing, Australia, 2017. 
• La Nauze, John Alfred Deakin: a biography, 2 vols. Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1965. 
• Macintyre, Stuart “Deakin and the Sovereignty of the People” Voices (Canberra), vol. 4, no. 2, Winter 1994: pp. 8-18. 
• Macintyre, Stuart “Alfred Deakin: a centenary tribute” Department of the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, Canberra, Australia, 22 Aug. 2003. 
• Murdoch, Walter Alfred Deakin: a sketch, Constable & Co., Sydney, 1923. 
• Woods, Carole “’My Native Place’: Alfred Deakin in Fitzroy” Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 82, no. 2, November 2011: pp. 158-74 

Books, Reading and Writing

• Gabay, Al “The Private Writings of Alfred Deakin” Historical Studies, vol. 22, no. 89, October 1987: pp. 525-46. 
• Hearn, Mark “A transnational imagination: Alfred Deakin’s reading lists” Transnational Ties: Australian lives in the world, eds Desley Deacon, Penny Russell & Angela Woollacott. ANU Press, Australia, 2008: pp. 197-211. 
• La Nauze, John & Elizabeth Nurser eds. Walter Murdoch and Alfred Deakin on Books and Men: Letters and Comments, 1900-1918, Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1974. 
• Partington, Geoffrey “Alfred Deakin and the significant past” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 78, pts 3-4, Dec. 1992: pp. 108-19.  

Family & Family Life 

• Brenchley, Fred & Elizabeth White’s Flight: an Australian pilot’s epic escape from Turkish prison camp to Russia’s Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, Australia, 2004. 
• Cochrane, Peter “’How Are the Egyptians Behaving?’: Herbert Brookes, British-Australian” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 30, no. 113, October 1999: pp. 303-18. 
• Langmore, Diane Prime Ministers’ Wives: the public and private lives of ten Australian women, McPhee Gribble, Victoria, 1992. 
• Langmore, Diane “Prime Ministers’ Wives: women in the background” 1901: The Forgotten Election, ed. Marion Simms. University of Queensland Press, Australia, 2001: pp. 113-22. 
• Lowe, David “Cold War London: Harrison and White” The High Commissioners: Australia’s representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010, eds Carl Bridge, Frank Bongiorno, David Lee. Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia, 2010: pp. 127-39. 
• Rickard, John “Deakin’s Ideal of the Family” Voices (Canberra), vol. 4, no. 2, Winter 1994: pp. 58-68. 
• Rickard, John A Family Romance: the Deakins at Home, Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1996. 
• Rivett, Rohan Australian Citizen: Herbert Brookes, 1867-1963, Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1965. 
• Rivett, Rohan Behind Bamboo: an inside story of the Japanese prison camps, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1946. 
• Rivett, Rohan David Rivett: fighter for Australian science, R. Rivett, Camberwell, Australia, 1972. 
• Tregenza, Ian “Herbert Brookes and the Crisis of Cultural Protestantism” Charles Strong’s Australian Church: Christian Social Activism, 1885-1917, ed. Marion Maddox. Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2021: pp. 115-29. 
• Woods, Carole Vera Deakin and the Red Cross, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Australia, 2020. 

Political Life

• Cahir, Fred & Dan Tout “‘All That Appears Possible Now Is to Mitigate as Much as Possible the Trials of Their Closing Years’: Alfred Deakin’s Attitudes to Aboriginal Affairs” Australian Journal of Politics & History, vol. 64, no. 2, June 2018: pp. 177–93. 

• Hearn, Mark “Examined Suspiciously: Alfred Deakin, Eleanor Cameron and Australian liberal discourse in the 1911 referendum” History Australia, vol. 2, no. 3, 2005: pp. 87.1-87.20. 
• Jones, Colin “’The View from Port Philip Heads’: Alfred Deakin and the move towards an Australian Navy” Southern Trident: strategy, history and the rise of Australian Naval power, eds David Stevens & John Reeve. Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2001: pp. 160-73.   
• Lake, Marilyn “’The Brightness of Eyes and Quiet Assurance Which Seem to Say American’: Alfred Deakin’s Identification with Republican Manhood” Australian Historical Studies, vol. 38, no. 129, 2007: pp. 32-51. 
• Macintyre, Stuart “Alfred Deakin: ‘His Sacred Service’” 1901: The Forgotten Election, ed. Marion Simms. University of Queensland Press, Australia, 2001: pp. 41-55. 
• Meaney, Neville K. “’A Proposition of the Highest International Importance’: Alfred Deakin’s Pacific Agreement Proposal and its significance for Australian-Imperial relations’ Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 1967: pp. 200-13. 
• Rankin, Benjamin “Alfred Deakin and water resources politics in Australia” History Australia, vol. 10, no. 2, Aug. 2013: pp. 114-35. 

Religion & Philosophy

• Brett, Judith “Alfred Deakin and Charles Strong” Charles Strong’s Australian Church: Christian Social Activism, 1885-1917, ed. Marion Maddox. Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2021: pp. 73-85. 
• Gabay, Al “Alfred Deakin and the Sources of Inspiration” Voices (Canberra), vol. 4, no. 2, Winter, 1994: pp. 19-32. 
• Gabay, Al “Alfred Deakin and Swedenborg: an Australian experience” The Journal of Religious History, vol. 16, no. 1, June 1990: pp. 74-90. 
• Gabay, Al The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1992.