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Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997 BY Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601 The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those o...
> Copyright Notice: Please respect the fact that all the material on this site is copyright © John Tranter and the individual authors 2004. John Tranter reviews>> Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push by Anne Coombs. Note: John Tranter s...
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These organisations included the Australian Labor Party, the Labour Club, the National Union of Australian University Students, and the radical student publication, Honi Soit. 'Review: Radical Students: the Old Left at Sydney University by Alan Barcan' [...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
ANDERSON, JOHN (1893-1962), philosopher, educator and controversialist, was born on 1 November 1893 at Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of Alexander Anderson, schoolmaster, and his wife, Elizabeth, n. After attending Hamilton Academy, Anderson matri...
ANDRADE, DAVID ALFRED (1859-1928), and WILLIAM CHARLES (1863-1939), anarchists and booksellers, were born at Collingwood, Victoria, sons of Abraham Da Costa Andrade, storekeeper, and his wife Maria, n. In May 1886, they helped to form the Melbourne Anarch...
MORTIMER, REX ALFRED (1926-1979), solicitor, communist and academic, was born on 11 February 1926 at Mordialloc, Melbourne, third of four children of Victorian-born parents Alfred Thomas Mortimer (d.1928), a horse-trainer who had served in the Australian ...
ANDRADE, DAVID ALFRED (1859-1928), and WILLIAM CHARLES (1863-1939), anarchists and booksellers, were born at Collingwood, Victoria, sons of Abraham Da Costa Andrade, storekeeper, and his wife Maria, n. In May 1886, they helped to form the Melbourne Anarch...
The Archives holds the records for selected affiliated clubs & societies. S35 Radio ClubDate range: 1924-1925List availableS93 Rhodes Scholarship NSW Selection CommitteeDate range: 1904-1985List availableAccess: Material restricted without the express pe...
> (A-Z) Kaawirn Kuunawarn [Hissing Swan] (c. KABERRY, PHYLLIS MARY (1910-1977), anthropologist, was born on 17 September 1910 at San Francisco, United States of America, eldest of three children of English-born parents Lewis Kaberry, architect, and his w...
Journalist, foreign correspondent and rock music expert Lillian Roxon enjoyed a long and varied career before her untimely death in New York at the age of 41. She was the first full-time female employee at the Sydney Morning Herald's New York office, and ...
Sources Express & Telegraph, 5 August 1864, page 2c, Register, 25 December 1874, page 6a, 27 January 1883 (supp.), 11 May 1893, page 6e, 4 August 1899, page 6c, 1 July 1904, page 5c, 25 March 1908, page 4g. Information on the cricket club is in the Expres...
Information on the Adelaide Microscope Club is in the Register, 8 November 1875, page 6c, Chronicle, 13 November 1875, page 15f, Express, 27 September 1905, page 4f. Register, 14 March 1885, page 5e, 18 April 1885, page 5b, 14 May 1885, page 5c, Observer...
Originally prepared for publication as part of Bright Sparcs by the Australian Science Archives Project. Alex Boden's education was at Willoughby Public School and North Sydney Boys High School. Following the publication, collaboratively, of two small bo...
She is the co-author with Therese Davis of Australian Cinema After Mabo (Cambridge UP, 2004) and Chief Investigator with Sue Turnbull on the ARC Discovery Project, Australian Screen Comedy. In a departure from the critical tendency to equate Sydney with A...
Alex Boden's education was at Willoughby Public School and North Sydney Boys High School. Production shifted from organics to inorganics, particularly aluminium chloride and chlorhydrate, zinc chloride and zinc ammonium chloride, which became the heart o...
The collection comprises both personal papers of Harry Hastings Pearce and papers of mainly early twentieth century Australian literary figures collected by Pearce. Pearce's personal papers include family and general correspondence; diaries; family and b...
It covers 150 years of local Australian material, associated manuscripts and related records from overseas. It is a repository of privately-held material of the major secular, freethought groups that have operated throughout Australia over the past centu...
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