Similarly,a number of Australian families may well now find their convict ancestors in
Nineteenth century business history is still a relatively untold story in Australia, with sources of information tending to be disparate and ephemeral. The Library was fortunate to acquire
Photographic advertising directory and pastime album, a large and very rare collection of business announcements, address cards and advertisements from the principal trades, professions and business houses of Sydney and the northern New South Wales districts from 1886. The advertisements surround what are mainly contemporary scenic photographs: the yellow pages and websites of the era.
The Library was thrilled to acquire
Radicals remember the 1960s
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Radicals: Remembering the Sixties is a kaleidoscopic look at a formative decade
Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley show us that we must learn about the past in order to change the world today.
From the very first page of
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties which situates readers in an atmospheric description of the Black Lives Matter protest held at Town Hall in June last year Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley underpin their kaleidoscopic vision of the Sixties with a continual awareness of how the struggles of the past are both connected to, and vastly different from, the present.
The book immerses readers in the radical political and counter-cultural spirit of the Sixties, pulling together Meredith and Nadia’s own stories with interviews of 18 figures, each with their own chapter, many of whom encountered radical ideas at the University of Sydney and its surroundings. While the stories have common anchor-points notably, opposition to Australia’s military involvemen
Travel poster advertising the island of Hydra, Greece, 1952
Credit: www.bridgemanimages.com
In the winter of 1954, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left London, with their children, to live by their wits and their typewriters on a Greek island. Kalymnos, one of the Dodecanese – the dozen dry islands scattered along the coast of Turkey, like the fragments of a Greek plate smashed in an international domestic – would not have been their first choice. But they needed a story, and Kalymnos, stony and rough though it was, offered them an extraordinary one.
It was an island almost entirely dependent on its sponge-fishing fleets. A population of 14,000 people relied on just a few brave men, divers who risked their lives fishing for sponges off the coast of Africa for seven months of each year. There was little other industry there (mass tourism had not yet been invented) and the popularity of synthetic sponges was killing the market for real ones and impoverishing the
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The ‘60s in Australia saw a wave of social protest and agitation for change, about the Vietnam war, gay liberation, the push for Aboriginal Land Rights, and much more.
A new book tells the stories of some of those who were in the thick of it, and what their legacy has been.
Guests:
Former Labor president of the NSW Upper House and former academic
Nadia Wheatley, co-author of ‘Radicals: Remembering the sixties’
Writer for children and adults. Historian.
Duration: 22min 7sec
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