George Lyndon Hicks was a resident at International House from 1958 to 1959. He first became interested in aspects of Asian politics and culture at school; his interests expanded while he was studying Arts at the University of Melbourne (Larkins, 2018, p. 27). In 1959, George Hicks became involved in the Immigration Reform Group, a […]
‘Fifty Years of Women at International House’ is a project aimed at preserving and promoting the archival collection at International House (IH), focussing specifically on holdings relating to women. Supported by the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund at the University of Melbourne, the project is timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the […]
The second purpose-built accommodation wing at International House, ‘Wadham’, opened in 1963. Planning for Wadham had begun in earnest in 1960, when International House launched an appeal to raise money for a new building. The goal was to raise £250,000 (equivalent to more than 7.5 million dollars in 2020 1) to construct accommodation for an […]
The first residents of IH were all male. So when did female residents arrive? In April 1953, the University Council agreed that IH should “eventually” have a building for women (Larkins, 2018, 9). According to Norman Harper, a member of the International House Committee in the 1950s, it was felt that there was a more […]
Telephones have long been an important part of life at IH allowing contact with family and friends overseas or interstate. But using or even finding a phone wasn’t always easy. Before mobile phones, telephones tended to be chunky, heavy and often affixed to a wall; in other words, immobile. The first IHers had access to […]
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