P9 - Interview with A. F. 'Bluey' Howells (born 1907), Melbourne, 4 October 1985

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File P9

Content Summary:

Bluey Howells, anarchist intellectual and activist in Sydney, Narrandera and Melbourne, joined the Industrial Workers of the World in the late 1920s. He became very involved in the 1930s Movement Against War and Fascism and fought in the Spanish Civil War. An artist, actor, playwright and creative writer, he is also the author of reflective non-fiction, such as We Went to Spain and Against the Stream. The Memories of a Philosophical Anarchist, 1927-1939. By the 1980s he was living as a nursery gardener in the Dandenongs, where this interview took place.

1 x 90 min. cassette, c. 55 mins.

Subjects:

Politics and government
Academic
History

Names:

Burgmann, Verity, FASS, Adjunct Professor of Politics

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