Posts tagged with Jack Lockyer O’Brien

  1. 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

  2. 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