Newspaper cuttings, 1927-1961

Component identifier:

Series 12

Content Summary:

Most of the cuttings in the collection that form subject files have been kept together to form Series 12. From the evidence of the papers used to mount the cuttings the files appear to have been kept by the University of Melbourne Commerce Department. The subjects covered include British industry, Coal, J.M. Keynes, Sir Walter Murdoch, A.C.V. Melbourne, U.S. politics, stocks and shares, banking, soldier settlements, Soviet Russia, the forty hour week, trade unions, drought insurance, butter, closer settlement, broadcasting, shale oil, devaluation, and taxation. Similar sorts of files, which include other types of material as well as cuttings, are in Series 90.

Series 12 has a number of folders of cuttings covering the late 1920s to the early 1930s filed according to an alphabetic-numeric system, although not obviously relating to one particular topic. In addition, there are several files of cuttings grouped by newspaper, such as the Financial Times, The Age, The New Statesman, The Nation and the Economist, and three albums containing mostly news items on Copland, 1956-1961.

Newspaper cuttings on topics or events that form the basis of other series have appropriately been placed elsewhere. Book reviews for instance are in Series 7, while the majority of press articles by Copland are in Series 9.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lady Copland presented the personal papers of Sir Douglas Copland to the National Library in September 1973. Additions to the collection were received from the Copland Family between 1977 and 1981.

Names:

Copland, D.B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971

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