Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's
Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's

Author: Susan Blackburn

Publisher: The GHR Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0868069299

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‘Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didn’t know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us.’ So writes Max Lees in his reminiscence, ‘Freedom’, one of the 13 contributions to this delightful evocation of childhood edited by Susan Blackburn. An associate professor at Monash University and a specialist in Southeast Asian politics who grew up in suburban Adelaide, Blackburn asked friends and acquaintances to join her in trying to recreate the experience of childhood in that place in that time. Most of the memories in this book are of happy, sunlit childhoods, but there are shadows too. Polio was a constant fear and unwanted children were often neglected in orphanages. On the whole, though, the experiences of the contributors were positive and they look back on the fifties with enjoyment, inviting us into their childhood and teenage worlds.

Adelaide Remember When
Adelaide Remember When

Author: Bob Byrne

Publisher: NewSouth

Published: 2021-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781742237558

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A Celebration of Adelaide Remember drinking Woodies Lemonade as a kid? And catching Popeye to the zoo? Or watching Bobo the Clown on TV? Then you'll also undoubtedly remember listening to Vinnie on SAFM and visiting Santa at Johnnie's Magic Cave! Featuring a selection of Bob Byrne's most popular "Boomer" columns from The Advertiser, Adelaide Remember When: The Boomer Stories looks back at the city we grew up in and recalls its rich and colourful past. It's an entertaining and captivating book for all of those who love Adelaide.

A History of South Australia
A History of South Australia

Author: Paul Sendziuk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108630030

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A History of South Australia investigates South Australia's history from before the arrival of the first European maritime explorers to the present day, and examines its distinctive origins as a 'free' settlement. In this compelling and nuanced history, Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster consider the imprint of people on the land - and vice versa - and offer fresh insights into relations between Indigenous people and the European colonisers. They chart South Australia's economic, political and social development, including the advance and retreat of an interventionist government, the establishment of the state's distinctive socio-political formations, and its relationship to the rest of Australia and the world. The first comprehensive, single-volume history of the state to be published in over fifty years, A History of South Australia is an essential and engaging contribution to our understanding of South Australia's past.

‘The Right Thing to Read’
‘The Right Thing to Read’

Author: Bronwyn Lowe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1351008102

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‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores the ways that parents, teachers, educators, journalists and politicians attempted to mitigate concerns about girls’ development through the promotion of ‘healthy’ literature. The book also addresses the influence of British publishers to Australian girl-readers and the growing importance of Australian publishers throughout the period. It considers the rise of Australian literary nationalism in the global context, and the increasing prominence of Australian literature in the period after the Second World War. It also shows how access to reading material improved for girls over the first half of the last century.

Transfigured Stages
Transfigured Stages

Author: Margaret Hamilton

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9401200556

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Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Open City and the Politics of the Everyday -- The Sydney Front and Grotesque Realism -- Jenny Kemp's Landscapes of the Psyche -- The Aboriginal Protesters Confront the Postdramatic Text -- An International Perspective on the Postdramatic Theatre Text -- (Trans)forming the Lexicon of “Theatre” in Australia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Social Sciences in the Asian Century
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century

Author: Carol Johnson

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1925022595

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In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Connecting Women's Histories
Connecting Women's Histories

Author: Barbara Bush

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1351602063

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Reflecting upon the diverse aspects of the entangled histories of women across the world (mainly, but not exclusively, during the twentieth century), this book explores the range of ways in which women’s history, international history, transnational history and imperial and global histories are interwoven. Contributors cover a diverse range of topics, including the work of British women’s activist networks in defence of, and opposition, to empire; the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women; suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa; white Zimbabwean women and belonging in the diaspora; migrant female workers as traditional agents in Tasmania; Indian ‘coolie’ women’s lives in British Malaya; Irish female medical missionary work; emigration to North America from Irish women’s convict prisons; the Women’s Party of Great Britain (1917-1919); the national and international in the making of the Finnish feminist Alexandra Gripenberg; and the relationship between the World Congress of Mothers and the Japan Mothers’ Congress. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women’s History Review.

Her Majesty's Pleasure
Her Majesty's Pleasure

Author: Frank Van Straten

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1743052294

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This unique book raises the curtain on the history of Adelaide's most remarkable playhouse - Her Majesty's Theatre. For 100 years 'the Maj' has hosted a cavalcade of entertainment. With a treasure-trove of rare photographs, posters and costume and set designs, this book will delight anyone who loves show business and who loves Adelaide.

Where History Happened
Where History Happened

Author: Peter Spearritt

Publisher: National Library of Australia

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0642279268

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'Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indigenous incarceration and environmental degradation and rejuvenation, describe a vast and complex country, with a heritage worth preserving. Part social, architectural, military, political and industrial history, part road trip travel companion, this book has something for every reader.