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“Watching the Gladiators”: Feminine Fandom in Mid-Century Melbourne
William Hoff The subjects of this photograph are attending a boxing match at West Melbourne Stadium, but their identities are anonymous. In the metadata, there are …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/29/watching-the-gladiators-feminine-fandom-in-mid-century-melbourne
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Shifting Racial Attitudes Through Music: African American Performers at West Melbourne Stadium
Shannon Peters On the evening of Sunday July 25th, 1954, an enthusiastic crowd of around a thousand people gathered at Sydney’s Mascot Airport, eager to catch …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/21/shifting-racial-attitudes-through-music-african-american-performers-at-west-melbourne-stadium
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Shuttered Histories: The Odyssey of John O’Brien’s Hanover St Residence
Ronak Alburz John Lockyer O’Brien (1905–1965), a distinguished historian at the University of Melbourne, curated a remarkable collection of photographs, capturing the late 1950s and early …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/14/shuttered-histories-the-odyssey-of-john-obriens-hanover-st-residence
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The Downfall of the Urban Grocer
Joshua Strong My father Michael, a 76 year-old Melbournian, remembers what it was like being sent to the grocer’s shop as a kid in the 1950s. …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/02/the-downfall-of-the-urban-grocer
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