Guide to the Papers of David Sissons, 1950-2006

Summary

Collection number:

MS 3092, MS Acc09.106

Extent:

9.03 metres and (60 ms boxes + 1 file)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of David Sissons, National Library of Australia, [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

Series 1 (3 boxes) of this collection comprises copies of Sisson's writings from his completed research. The remainder of the collection (57 boxes), comprises source materials accumulated in the course of various research ventures relating to Australian-Japanese relations. They include photocopies, correspondence and holograph notes.

Biographical Note:

David Sissons was an historian in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) where his principal fields of research were the history of Australian-Japanese relations and the World War II War Crimes Trials.

Chronology

Date	Event
1950	BA (Hons) University of Melbourne
1951-1955	Tutor, International Relations; Research Officer, Australian Institute of International Affairs
1956	Research Assistant to Professor W. Macmahon Ball, University of Melbourne MA Political Science, University of Melbourne
1960	Visiting Scholar and Visiting Lecturer, Far Eastern Institute, University of Washington
1961-1965	Research Fellow, ANU, Canberra
1965-1990	Fellow, ANU, Canberra
1991	Following his retirement from the ANU, took up a three-year post to establish an Australian Studies Centre at the Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan
2006	Died in Canberra on 17 October

Collection Retrieval Advice:

Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there may be multiple Box 1s). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Provenance:

The papers were donated to the Library by David Sissons.

Arrangement:

The collection arrangement and description was determined by David Sissons. In addition, papers originally held in the Manuscript Collection at MS 8230 were amalgamated into this collection by Sissons in June 2006.

Container List:

Series	Subseries	File	Box
1	1.1	1-5a	1
1	1.2	6-7	1
1	1.2	8-23a	2
1	1.3	24-30b	3
1	1.4	31	3
1	1.5	32-33	3
1	1.6	34-34a	3
1	1.7	35-36	3
1	1.8	37-40	4
2			4-5
3			6-11
4			12
5			13
6			14-16
7			17
8			18
9			19
10			20-34
11			35
12			35-37
13			38-39
14			39
15			40-45
16			46-47
17			48
18			49-51
19			52-53
20			54
21			55
22			56-57
23			58
24			59
25			60
26			60
27			60

Conditions Governing Access:

The collection is available for reference.

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Please note that material created by D. C. S. Sissons is partly permitted to be copied for research purposes (Boxes 1-4) and partly not permitted to be copied for research purposes (Boxes 5-60).

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of David Sissons, National Library of Australia, [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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