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A Biography of Henry Black: Theatre in Japan

Ian McArthur

Unique among foreigners in 19th-century Japan, Australian-born professional storyteller (rakugoka) Henry Black (1858-1923) enthralled audiences with his adaptations of novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, and Fortua de Boisgobey. This…

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Circus and Stage: The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G. B. W. Lewis

Mimi Colligan

Rose Edouin née Bryer and her husband, entrepreneur and circus performer George Benjamin William Lewis rarely receive much attention in the history of Australian theatre. This book provides a fascinating…

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Decade: 1970–1980

Rennie Ellis

Decade: 1970–1980 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ (1940–2003) contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by film maker and Rennie contemporary Paul Cox and…

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Bert And Ned

McCaughey, Patrick

Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Covering a period of more than thirty years, these…

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The True Story of Ned Kelly’s Last Stand

Paul Terry

When Ned Kelly fought his Last Stand at Glenrowan, he made his suit of armour and a tiny bush pub part of Australian folklore.

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JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance

Andrew Dodd

Colonial architect John James Clark was fourteen when he began practising as an architect. By the age of nineteen he had designed the Melbourne Treasury, Australia’s finest Renaissance Revival building…

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The Matrix

Bruno Leti,Sasha Grishin,Anne Kirker,Chris Wallace-Crabbe

As Professor Sasha Grishin writes: The artist, the print and the matrix sounds more like a title for a Peter Greenaway film than a title for an essay on the…

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Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27

Kristin Otto

In 1901, the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next 26 years, was governed from Melbourne. And this overgrown town, in all but name…

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The Art Of The Collection

Crawford, Davison And Niall,Graeme Davison,Brenda Niall

Acting on its mandate to collect and preserve Victoria’s documentary heritage, the State Library of Victoria acquires paintings, maps, diaries and documents that showcase all facets of Victorian life. This…

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Bottersnikes And Other Lost Things

O'Conor, Juliet

Exploring such things from schooldays to fantasy worlds, from its nineteenth century beginnings to the twenty-first century, this book offers ways of seeing the Australian child’s literary history. It illuminates…

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Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938-1996

Patrick Morgan (Ed.)

Spanning more than 60 years, this selection of letters to friends and members of the public reveals a person more subtle in his views than his adamantine public persona would…

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Running The Show: Selected Documents: 1939-1996

Morgan, Patrick

B.A. Santamaria was a political activist and traditionalist Catholic layman, an important figure in one of the key political events in Australia history, the disastrous 1954 split in the ALP…

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