The collection comprises papers documenting academic and gay right's campaigner Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. Includes correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers.
The collection consists of Dr Johnson's personal research papers, photographs and slides relating to scientific and historical studies of the active volcanoes of Papua New Guinea from 1969 to 2016. The papers consist of letters, notes, reports, and maps, together with colour and black-and white prints, negatives, colour transparencies (both 35 mm and 60 mm), 35 mm lecture slides and some CDs (which comprise copies of some items from the collection). The collection also documents the work of other volcanologists including Dr N.H. Fisher, G.A.M. Taylor, M.A. Reynolds, R.J.S. Cooke and Dr Takashi Kizawa.
This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and research material written and collected by Arthur Capell, relating to linguistics, ethnography, education, sociology, musicology, religion, mission studies and poetry covering Papua New Guinea, European, Indian sub-continent, Proto-Oceanic, Fijian, South-East and East Asian, Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian, Proto-Austronesian, Timor, Irian Jayan and Indonesian subjects.
The MS 9548 collection comprises correspondence, notes, manuscripts and typescripts, subject files, cuttings of articles by or about Reynolds, reprints and printed material. The bulk of the correspondence deals with conferences and seminars, publications, academic appointments, grant applications, examination of postgraduate students, study leave and book launchings. The notes, drafts and research material relate to Reynolds' books Aborigines and settlers, The other side of the frontier, The law and the land, Frontier: Aborigines, settlers and land, Dispossession: black Australians and white invaders, With the white people, Fate of a free people, Aboriginal sovereignty, This whispering in our hearts, as well as chapters in books, articles, conference papers, lectures and book reviews (40 boxes).
(12 ms boxes + 8 archival boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 map folio + 87 audiovisual carriers)
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This collection comprises recordings and papers compiled by political scientist Verity Burgmann. The recordings are of interviews (1970-1994), speeches, meetings and protests of far-left wing activists (1981-2019), conducted by Burgmann and others. Prominent activists interviewed include Frank Hardy, Tom Payne, Lloyd Ross and Mary Wright (87 sound/av carriers) There are papers relating to the Australian Society for the Study of Labour history. These records from the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney branches are complimented by a run of the Melbourne branch's newsletter 'Recorder', from 1964-2021 (incomplete). Other papers relate to Burgmann's academic life (1982-2020) with two main portions dedicated to applications to the Australian Research Council and other research grant schemes, as well as conferences attended (1979-1989). Burgmann's, working papers for The People's history of Australia, co-edited with Jenny Lee, are made up of correspondence with contributors, publishers and supporters of the project along with financial papers, summary drafts, style guides and charts. There are Burgmann's examiner reports, manuscript assessment and supervision samples from her time at the University of Melbourne as well as special studies program applications.
MS Acc04.285 comprises general files of the 1970s, as well as files on the Lake Pedder Action Committee and the Australian Conservation Foundation, and documents Lake's activities during his time at the University of Tasmania (2 cartons).
(21 ms boxes + 4 small folio boxes + 15 medium folio boxes + 10 large folio boxes + 1 map folio + 1 folder)
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MS Acc07.101 comprises scrapbooks chronologically covering Roger Smalley's musical career over the period 1956-1996. The scrapbooks were assembled by Smalley's father, John Smalley, and consist of news clippings, concert programmes, and related ephemera. There are also a small number of loose concert programmes from the early 1980s, mostly for the BBC Promenade Concerts (2 boxes).
5.85 metres(39 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 medium folio box)
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The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, family history papers, an MA thesis and PhD research material. It includes correspondence with L F Fitzhardinge; Verity Fitzhardinge's correspondence and notes for A Man's Man, her memoir of George Lacey Lee; her trips to New Zealand, England, Europe and Afghanistan; her bookshop business; farming; teaching at Telopea Park School and various Canberra, Queanbeyan and Glen Innes schools; job applications; and her interests in Russia and politics. The letters record details of Canberra, Queanbeyan and surrounding regions from 1930s to 1980s.
Correspondence, notes, articles and book reviews, statistical data, photographs, miscellaneous journal issues, and newspaper cuttings. The literary papers include research notes, manuscripts and annotated typescript drafts of many of O'Farrell's publications.
The collection comprises papers relating to the Dunera Boys, gathered by Ken Inglis over years as an Australian historian. His final work "Dunera Lives" was published posthumously in 2018. The book tells the story of the famous "Dunera Boys": nearly 3000 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who were transported aboard HMT Dunera and landed in Australia in 1940. They were interned as "enemy aliens' in camps near Hay, Orange and Tatura during the Second World War. This collection comprises of Inglis's research for his book "Dunera Lives" and is made up of personal correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings and drafts of publications and talks on the subject. A large component of the collection is comprised of folders on various Dunera and Queen Mary Internees, ordered alphabetically by surname. These folders include email correspondence with informants, newspaper cuttings, transcripts of interviews, and notes Inglis made detailing his thoughts on the individual's story, also include printed material, photocopies and notes containing biographical details of the Dunera Boys.