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Papers of Geoffrey Bolton, 1931-2015

(70 ms boxes + 1 card box)
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The collection documents Geoffrey Bolton's professional life as an historian, academic and author. They include correspondence, reviews, notes, projects, lectures, speeches, conference papers, drafts of writings, cuttings, photographs and other printed material. Subjects include Bolton's association with The Oxford History of Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Constitutional Centenary Foundation and the Australian Bicentennial History Project; papers relating to publications include 'A fine country to starve in', 'Being whitefella', 'Richard Daintree: a photographic memoir', 'Spoils and Spoilers: Australians make their environment 1788-1980', 'A Thousand miles away : a history of north Queensland to 1920', 'Dick Boyer, an Australian humanist', 'Paul Hasluck : a life' and 'Edmund Barton'.
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Papers of Bernard Smith, 1902-2011

(113 ms boxes + 2 elephant folios + 1 large folio +1 archives box + 3 large folio boxes)
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MS 8680 comprises correspondence, principally with Jack Lindsay, 1979-1988, handwritten drafts, notes and typescripts of talks, lectures, addresses, book reviews and articles. There are a large number of drafts of articles, later published in journals and newspapers such as Meanjin, Art and Australia and the Age.

Papers of Roger Smalley, 1956-2016

(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).
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Papers of Patrick O'Farrell, 1880-1999

(227 boxes + 1 folio box + 1 map folio)
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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.
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Papers of June Factor, 1939-2020

(114 boxes + 1 carton + 2 folders)
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MS Acc02.228 comprises files of papers relating to Children's Radio 3CR including letters, communications with the Institute of Early Childhood Development, teaching outlines and notes, dating from the 1980s (1 box).
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Papers of Dennis Altman, 1961-2021

(23 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 map folio + 2 folders)
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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.
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The Wally Johnson Collection relating to Papua New Guinea Volcanology

2.57 metres (26 security binders + 5 ms boxes)
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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.
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Papers of Hope Verity Fitzhardinge

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.
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Papers of Bill Gammage, c.1880s-2021

(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".
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Papers of Ken Inglis relating to the Dunera Boys, 1930-2020, 1930-2020

(43 MS boxes)
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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.
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