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  1. The Rise of Chinese Australians’ Box Hill: A Comparative History Review

    Shouyue Zhang Today’s Box Hill in Greater Melbourne is widely recognised as a vibrant Asian community and the most populous Chinese-Australian enclave in Victoria. In 2021, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2024/07/08/the-rise-of-chinese-australians-box-hill-a-comparative-history-review

  2. From Below: Working-Class Perceptions of Post-War Australia

    Jacobin Bosman Picture Footscray. What comes to mind? The answer, at least for Melbournians, is probably some variation on the setting for 1992’s Romper Stomper with …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2024/07/02/from-below-working-class-perceptions-of-post-war-australia

  3. Fighting as a Family and the Upward Reach of an Underdog

    George Fforde Among hundreds of images in the ‘Records of Stadiums Pty Ltd’ collection, many of them promotional mug shots which rarely show the same boxer …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/12/18/fighting-as-a-family-and-the-upward-reach-of-an-underdog

  4. Social and Urban Renewal – Melbourne’s Hidden Slum History

    Anthony Jenkins From his home in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the archaeologist John Lockyer O’Brien captured evidence of the inner-city’s evolving urban and social landscape, documenting a transitional …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/12/12/social-and-urban-renewal-melbournes-hidden-slum-history

  5. The “Brawny Farmer from Dubbo” turned International Boxer

    Alexia Rutkowski In the digitised images of the Stadiums Pty Ltd archive collection, Australian boxer, George Cook caught my attention as several photographs included portraits with …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/12/06/the-brawny-farmer-from-dubbo-turned-international-boxer

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