Guide to the Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-2019
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Summary
- Collection number:
- MS 9715, MS Acc17.015, MS Acc19.134
- Creator:
- Lake, Marilyn, Professor
- Extent:
- (89 ms boxes + 1 map-folio package)
- Language:
- English and English
- Preferred citation:
- Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Marilyn Lake, National Library of Australia, MS 9715, [class/series/file number]'.
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Part available for research; part requires permission for research. Not for loan.
Background
- Content Summary:
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Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this collection may contain names, and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
This material contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples including the Wangkatjungka , Walmajarri, and Pitjantjatjara peoples. Restrictions on access and use of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
The collection comprises correspondence, appointment diaries, photographs, newspaper cuttings, research material, and the drafts of Professor Marilyn Lake's books, articles, lectures, reviews, conference papers and other writings. The papers relate mostly to her academic career and her work as a historian, feminist and social commentator. There are a group of papers relating to Lake's appointment as Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, 2001-2002. Correspondents include Michael Roe, Stuart Macintyre, Joy Damousi, Kay Saunders and Graeme Davison. The papers concerning 'Limits of hope' include letters and photographs from a number of soldier settlers or family members recalling conditions on settlements in Victoria after World War I. Also included are papers relating to Professor Lake's international career; Australian conferences including The Australian Historical Association (AHA) conferences; her period as President of the AHA; teaching; courses; journalism; film and TV; references; examiners' reports; public engagements; Victorian Womens Trust (VWT); Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF); museums; writers' festivals; ; symposia; public talks; organisations; committee work; books and book chapters published; original and annotated drafts of writing, and correspondence relating to the award of book prizes and the AO. The papers are mostly handwritten and typed letters, lectures, talks and writings on paper.
- Biographical Note:
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Marilyn Calvert was born in Hobart on 5 January 1949. She was educated at Hobart High School, the University of Tasmania, where she gained a Master of Arts in 1973, and Monash University, where she graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984. On 5 October 1968 she married Sam Lake, a zoologist who later became Professor of Biological Sciences at Monash University.
After gaining her doctorate, Marilyn Lake lectured in history and social theory at the University of Melbourne and also at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1988 she was appointed a Senior Lecturer and Director of Women's Studies at La Trobe University and in 1994 she became a Professor of History. She was Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 2001-2002. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Between 2004 and 2008 Lake was an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow, and a research fellow at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre in Canberra in 2008. In 2011, Lake was awarded another Australian Research Council Professorial Research Fellowship to investigate the international history of Australian democracy.
Lake has published 12 books since 1975 as well as numerous articles and book chapters in Australian and international anthologies. She is known internationally for her writings in women's history and sexuality and she has also written on wars, nationalism, labour history and land settlement. Her history of the women's movement in Australia, Getting Equal, was published in 1999. In 2002 she published her first biography, a study of the Aboriginal activist Faith Bandler. Since then she has published Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective (2006), Memory, Monuments and Museums (2006), Drawing the Global Colour Line (2008) with Henry Reynolds, What's Wrong with ANZAC? The Militarisation of Australian History (2010), and Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (2019).
In 2003, Lake was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Australian women's history. The commemorative medal was struck to mark the achievements of a broad cross-section of the Australian community at the commencement of a new century. Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds won several awards for Drawing the Global Colour Line; Winning the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, History Book Award – Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award in 2008; and in 2009 both the Prime Minister's Literary Award for a non-fiction book, and The University of Melbourne Ernest Scott Prize. In 2018 Lake was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for Distinguished service to higher education, particularly to the social sciences, as an academic, researcher and author, and through contributions to historical organisations." In 2019 her book Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards – General History Prize, and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2020.
- Reading Room Access Note:
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For preservation reasons, we are unable to deliver digital and audiovisual carriers to the Special Collections Reading Room. Please contact (Ask a Librarian) to enquire about access.
- Provenance:
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The papers were purchased by the Library from Professor Marilyn Lake in two instalments, one in 1999 and one in 2004.
- Arrangement:
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The Library has arranged the papers into 16 series. Many of the papers were in files and the contents of the files have been kept intact. Some files are on a specific subject, such as a conference, while others are more general, such as articles. The general correspondence was mostly loose, apart from a few special files, and it was arranged in chronological order.
Access and use
- Conditions Governing Access:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn143685)
- 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.
- Preferred citation:
- Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Marilyn Lake, National Library of Australia, MS 9715, [class/series/file number]'.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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