Grave stories of Queen Victoria Market - Celestina Sagazio
Explore the history of the fascinating and unique Queen Victoria Market - a vibrant, cosmopolitan place that has won a place in our hearts and is a leading tourist attraction in Melbourne - but the site also has considerable significance for Melbournians as the location of the Old Melbourne Cemetery, Melbourne's first official cemetery, which opened in 1837.
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The social history of workplace Australian football 1860-1939
- Peter Burke
An examination of the social history of workplace Australian football from the period in the early 1860s, when the game emerged as a distinct code, to the outbreak of the Second World War
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All the world over: the transnational world of Australian radical and labour cartoonists, 1880s to 1920 - Nick Dyrenfurth
Focussing upon the work of well-known artists Phil May, Livingstone Hopkins, Montague Scott, Claude Marquet, Jim Case and, most prominently, the Victorian Will Dyson, this talk considers the transnational world of early Australian radical and labour cartoonists. Political cartooning constituted a vitally important element of the cultural politics of the early Australian labour movement. However, most historians have assumed that the visual evidence of this period was merely confirmation of an existing or latent working-class consciousness, rather than understanding the role of iconic representation in the making and re-making of class.
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