Papers relating to the Communist Arts Group, Shipping Crisis Resistance Committee and Maritime Workers' issues. Material relating to Afro-American musician and activist Paul Robeson and the Victoria Street, Potts Point, Sydney Green bans and protests against development. Both of these became subjects of literary works by Wills. The papers contain manuscripts and typescripts (Including by John Manifold), correspondence, ephemera.

Playscripts, work in progress notebooks, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous ephemera, articles and art exhibition catalogues. Includes: Poet's dozen, inscribed by Laurence Collinson to Pam and Jim Crawford.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Anti-Communist leaflets and responses from the Communist Party.