Consignment received 2009

Component identifier:

Class MS Acc 09.191 (Boxes 1-26)

Content Summary:

Speeches, notes and correspondence on reconciliation and native title; letters from members of the public on "Why wasn't I told?" and other issues, including one regarding the racial harrassment of King Billy in Queensland; documents relating to nominations to the Australian Academy of Humanities; papers concerning the "History Wars" including notes concerning Keith Windschuttle's rebuttal of Reynolds's view, National Museum of Australia, Pinjarra, Black Arm Band, Tasmania and Genocide, The Historians, Fate of a free people; research material for The other side of the frontier, Frontier, and With the white people, including copies of colonial documents held by various institutions and evidence of preliminary thinking for the books; other correspondence and working files organised by name, topic or date (26 boxes).

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased by the Library from Henry Reynolds in 1999. Further papers were added in 2009.

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples
Academic
History

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