Australia -- History

Scope and Contents Sectioned off within the folder is a collection of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publication release forms and both the original and photocopies sheet music for ‘Billjim’s Aussie Song’ by Meta Maclean. The collection is primarily focused on popular culture and folklore of world war periods. The publication date range is c. 1926-2007. The subject matter date range is c. 1914-2008. Separate to this subcollection is a series of email correspondence between LC and...

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Contains the single publication of Higgins, Christina, ‘Naturalising ‘Horror’ Stories: Australian Crime News as Popular Culture’ in Craven, Ian, Gray, Martn, Stoneham, Geraldine (eds.), Australian Popular Culture, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Scope and Contents Contains two printed articles by Judith Allen: ‘Our deeply degraded sex’ and ‘The animal in man’: Rose Scott, Feminism and Sexuality 1890-1925’, Australian Feminist Studies, No. 7-8, Summer 1988; ‘Octavius Beale re-considered: Infanticide, baby-farming and abortion in NSW 1880-1939’ in What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History, (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1982). Details Australian feminist Rose Scott and analyses birth demographics to analyse the pressures on...

Scope and Contents A series of printed web pages from Rams Skull Press, the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Military and the James Cook University websites. Includes lists of books by Rams Skull with folklore content, an encyclopaedic entry on the mutinies in the 1st Australian Imperial Force (AIF), some brief information about ‘Warren Fahey’s ‘Songs the Diggers Really Sang’ and a review of Peter Pierce’s ‘The Country of Lost Children: an Australian Anxiety’. All the material was printed on...

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Contains a series of information on the Australian Folklore Journal including subscription details, information for intending contributors and background information of the Journal. Also includes information of an Australian Folklore ‘F320’ course at Indiana University. All documents were printed on 5/2/2007.

Scope and Contents A series of printed articles about Australian journalism and general press, popular culture, and a couple of small biographies on John and Ezra Norton. Titles include: The Sydney Press Gang by Isadore Brodsky; Shameless Scribblers: Australian women’s Journalism, 1880-1995 by Sharyn Pearce; ‘From Empire Day to Cracker Night’ by Stewart Firth and Jeanette Hoorn and ‘Introduction’ by David Walker in Australia Popular Culture, ‘Norton, Ezra’ by Valerie Lawson in The Australian Dictionary of...

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Contains selected sections of printed articles with such titles as ‘Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs’ by Tony Bennett and David Carter (eds.), ‘British Cultural Studies: An Introduction’ by Graeme Turner and ‘Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice’ by Chris Barker. Also included is the bibliography and index of ‘Myth of Oz’ by Bob Hodge, Graeme Turner and John Fiske. The publication date range is c.1987-2003.

Scope and Contents Contains two publications: Sanders, Noel, ‘Azaria Chamberlain and popular culture’, and Grace, Helen, ‘Business, please, narrative: The folktale in our time’, in Graeme Turner (ed.), Nation, Culture, Text: Australian cultural and media studies, (London: Routledge, 1993); and Turner, Graeme, Film as Social Practice: Second Edition, (London: Routledge, 1993), with the selected sections of the contents, the preface and ‘Film narrative’. Also included is the chapter ‘Redefining the nation: from...

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Hornadge, Bill, The Yellow Peril: A Squint at some Australian attitudes towards Orientals, (Dubbo: Review Publications Pty Ltd., 1971).

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A collection of printed articles, printed newspaper clippings, image order and permission to publish forms, and a CD-ROM labelled ‘John Norton’. Topics included are capitalism, international relations, socialism and Rose Scott, a prominent member of the suffrage and temperance movements in Australia. The publication and subject matter date ranges are 1903-1927, with the order forms dating c. 2007.

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A series of handwritten and typed notes that document the demographics of migration and bankruptcy in New Zealand in the late 1800s. Also included is the portrait photograph of an unknown woman and a newspaper clipping reporting on what attracts emigration to Australia. The subject matter date range is 1853-1894.

Scope and Contents A collection of handwritten notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, typed script, genealogical trees, birth certificates, marriage registries, death certificates and registries, negatives, prints, advertisements and maps of Queenstown, New Zealand. The collection is essentially an extensive biographical background of the Tyree family from William Tyree (1820-1889) onwards. Includes information of the family in England as well as their activity in Australia and New Zealand. The...

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Contains the single printed article of O’Regan, Tom, ‘The Man from Snowy River and Australian Pop Culture’ in Tom O’Regan and Albert Meran eds., An Australian Film Reader, (Sydney: Currency Press, 1985). The article was printed from the Murdoch University ‘Reading Room’ archive on July 19, 2002.

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Contains the single publication of O’Farrell, Patrick, Vanished Kingdoms, (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1990).

Scope and Contents Contains the publication of Walker, R.B., The Newspaper Press in New South Wales, 1803-1920, (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976). Selected chapters include ‘A Bulletin on the Bulletin’, ‘Federation and Beyond’, ‘Sabbath Soliloquies of a Newspaper Napoleon’, ‘Everyman’s Paper’, ‘Printers, Journalists, Readers’, ‘Mercury Militant’, ‘Conclusion’ and the index. Also contains Walker, R.B., Yesterday’s News, (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1980). Selected chapters include ‘Sydney’s Nine...

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Contains the publication of Pearce, Sharyn, Shameless Scribblers: Australian Women’s Journalism 1880-1995, (Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 1998), along with a page of notes about the publication. The chapters include are ‘The Beginnings: Women and Journalism in the 1880s’, ‘Louisa Lawson and the “Dawn”’ and ‘Propagating the Word: Mary Gilmore and the Women’s Page of the “Worker”’. The subject matter date range of the sections included is c. 1880-1931.

Scope and Contents Contains publication of Sanders, Noel, ‘Azaria Chamberlain and popular culture’, John Frow and Meaghan Morris (ed.), Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, (St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1993), along with the contents page. Also included are two newspaper clippings. One documenting the ‘Pumpkin case’ in which Nai Yin Xue killed his wife and abandoned his child and the other being a front page headline reading “Boy’s mum charged: Body in the suitcase”. The publication and subject matter date...

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A collection of handwritten notes, correspondence, printed articles and newspaper clippings. Includes a variety of topics and themes all with the purpose of information a history of Truth proposed by LC. These include the legal issues of Truth, religion, Australian and New Zealand politics, “anti-royalism”, nationalism, imperialism, racism (‘the yellow peril’ in particular) and military fears. The publication date range is c. 1905-1995. The subject matter date range is c. 1896-1995.

Scope and Contents A collection of printed articles, newspaper clippings and handwritten notes. One prominent theme is technology; its effect on journalism and on general society. Another prominent theme is the history of Truth, of which is there ample reference to the journalistic technique of muckraking and the use of morbid news. The publication date range is 1979-2007. The subject matter date range is c. 1803-2007, as it includes a chronological information about media history in Australia, but also...

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Contains a few handwritten notes on Norton [John and/or Ezra], and the publication of Pearl, Cyril, Wild Men of Sydney, (London: W. H. Allen, 1958). Subject matter date range loosely indicated in notes, c. 1884-1945.

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Contains the front page of Woodrow, Ross, ‘Darwinism and Images of Race in Australian Popular Press (c. 1860-1900)’, Master of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney, 1994.