(55 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 4 large folio boxes + 5 map folios + 40 audiovisual carriers)
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MS Acc05.123 comprises material relating to The broken years, research material and drafts for the thesis on which the book was based, correspondence, draft material, photographs and reviews relating to the various editions of the book. Also includes material relating to Gammage's role as an historical consultant for the film "Gallipoli".
9 metres(2 ms boxes + 10 ms cartons + 8 large folio boxes + 3 small folio boxes) + 33 audio carriers
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MS Acc00.024 comprises files documenting Hamilton's publications and files relating to his work and travels, together with press clippings and photographs. There are also subject files, diaries, scrapbooks and cartoons. Topics covered include Timor, Indonesia, China, Vanuatu, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force and the Sinai Desert.
Personal collection of Ahmad Shah Siddiqi documenting his time in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Australia during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. The collection comprises approximately 250 photographs, mostly colour, which document the activities of Afghan Mujahideen fighters during the Soviet-Afghan war; 118 anti-Soviet propaganda posters produced by the Internal Islamic Fronts of Afghanistan; 66 Afghan newspapers including issues from Daily Shahadat, Alfalah and Ghalbe Assia; papers written in Farsi; and other ephemera including cards, stickers and Islamic headscarves produced by the Press and Information Department, Political Committee Hezb-i-Islami, Afghanistan.
The papers consist of reference papers relating to naval history and public administration, particularly in the Commonwealth Public Service, and papers relating to his published books. A list of classifications used, a summary title of each item, and index cards in two sequences of subjects, and people and ships, ensure easy access to the papers. Research correspondence and correspondence with publishers, and copies of Hyslop's six published books, are also included. Papers that relate specifically to the researching of four of Hyslop's books (Boxes 21-22) include research correspondence and correspondence with publishers. Correspondents include the Chief Archivist, Keith Penny, Warren Perry, Robert S. Parker, John Ware and Geoff Burrows. Box 23 comprises correspondence between Hyslop and Warren Perry, documents relating to South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (Hyslop was official secretary to the commission, working with commissioners Anne Deveson, Elizabeth Evatt, and Felix Arnott), correspondence and programmes relating to the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). Papers relating to the Department of the Navy and a Naval Board minute book from 1905 to 1939 are included.
This collection comprises newspaper articles, reports, publications, correspondence, research and notes relating to Hazel Busby's appeal for workers compensation for the 1971 death of her husband, Keith Busby. Keith Busby was a RAAF pilot who was exposed to the radioactive area of Maralinga after the Buffalo 1 atomic test in the 1950s.
This collection primarily comprises correspondence from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo regarding the book "The Backroom Boys : Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, 1942-46" written by Graeme Sligo. The book covers topics of Army Directorate of Research 1942-1946 - New Guinea, Colonel Alfred Austin Joseph Conlon, Sir Thomas Blamey, The Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, and The Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). There is also correspondence between Graeme Sligo and others, including Lieutenant John D. Legge AO, and Lady Meriel Wright, widow of Colonel Sir Douglas Wright, Chancellor of University of Melbourne, 1980-1989.
(1 MS box + 1 small folio box + 1 medium folio box + 1 map folio + 1 folder)
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This collection of papers relating to Andrew Delfosse Badgery comprises a mixture of formats and materials, some contemporary to Badgery's life and some produced by third parties. Of note are a number of diaries which the donor accredit to Badgery himself, one which is of his early life and labelled as fragile, and one which was created during his time as a pilot in WWI. There is a large family tree, and numerous photographs, some stored as a collection in a single binder and some in his diaries. There is a lot of material relating to a biography of Badgery which the donor suggests was written by his son Peter, including several typed drafts, and correspondences with the Australian War Memorial and National Archives Australia regarding his service. There is also a biography of his son, as well as some articles written by the donor regarding Badgery.
The papers of MS 8869 are divided into two parts: 1. Papers of Bern Brent's parents, Helene and Otto Bernstein, include early family papers; poems by Otto Bernstein; papers relating to childhood; imprisonment in Siberia and escape, World War I; Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, World War II.2. Papers of Bern Brent include family correspondence 1920s-1960s (some of which is in German), particularly during World War II when family members were separated in Australia, United Kingdom, Germany and the United States; papers relating to the voyage on the 'Dunera', 1940; papers relating to the Hay and Tatura Internment Camps, Australia, including poems, diary, sketches, correspondence, publications; teaching materials and research documenting the direct method of teaching English to migrants in Australia, and teaching methods in Europe and Southeast Asia; publications by Brent including articles, book reviews and his book My Berlin suitcase: memories of a childhood (9 boxes, 1 fol. item).
(1 medium folio box + 7 digital carriers + 5 sound/av carriers)
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The collection features an unpublished manuscript for "The Abduction of Douglas Wood in Iraq in 2005 – The Family's Story", written by Malcolm Wood, discussing the kidnapping of his brother Douglas Wood. It also includes audiovisual and digital material, newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to Wood's time as a hostage in Iraq, his rescue and repatriation.