For Socialists and many liberals, the Soviet Union of the 1920s-1940s was the site of the great Socialist Experiment. Most Australians who travelled there wrote about their extraordinary experiences, and the recent opening of the Soviet archives gave access to the Soviets' reactions to their visitors. Collecting the research of leading historians and writers, Political Tourists explores Soviet tourism through figures such as Eric Ashby, RM Crawford, Reg Ellery, Neill Greenwood, Esmonde Higgins, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Betty Roland and Jessie Street. Drawing on both Australian and Soviet archives, this is a unique insight into the Soviet experience in the 1920s-1940s.

Political Tourists

History

FITZPATRICK, Sheila

Rasmussen, Carolyn

Australia & Oceania

Melbourne University Publishing

The University of Melbourne was already over 110 years old when this history begins. The second oldest university in Australia, it has been graced with a number of histories written by eminent historians. Each of these histories has documented the University's evolution and diversification from the perspective of their time. Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975-2015 continues that story, but the period covered is entirely within living memory. It pauses at ten-year intervals, the first at 1975, to look back at the previous decade. We are invited to enter the University of Melbourne as a living institution, and to watch it as it responds to changing expectations of students, staff and community, to shifting policy frameworks and to an evolving economic and social context. The principal themes that arc across this story involve massive growth, the evolution towards a research-intensive institution, changing pedagogical imperatives, bureaucratisation and internationalisation in the face of declining public funding.

Shifting the Boundaries: The University of Melbourne 1975-2015

The Miegunyah Press

The Blackburns

When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love-with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better. Theirs would be an exacting partnership as they held one another to the highest ideals. They worked as elected members of parliaments and community activists, influencing conscription laws, benefits for working men and women, atomic bomb tests, civil rights and Indigenous recognition. Together, they shook Australia.

The Blackburns: Private lives, public ambitions

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Melbourne University Press

This is a superbly written, designed, and illustrated history of Victoria's museums of natural history, ethnography, applied science, technology, and social history from 1854 to the present. This mainly chronological narrative is interspersed with short studies by 46 authors on the objects, specimens, stories, and people that are the essence of Museum Victoria. It will appeal to the general reader with an interest in museums and history as well as those interested in the cultural, social, and technological growth of the state of Victoria in Australia.

A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000

Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.

A Whole New World: 100 Years of Eductaion at the University High School

Australian Scholarly Publishing

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