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  1. “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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Discovering the work of Malcom Warner through Shell’s Historical Archive

    Murphy Bouma The Shell Historical Archive is a unique collection that showcases the history of the Shell oil company in Australia during the 20th Century. With …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2021/11/29/discovering-the-work-of-malcom-warner-through-shells-historical-archive

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