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Ron Brown Papers

  • UQFL599
  • Collection
  • 1947-1989

Talks, lectures, research material, pamphlets, articles, and notes.

Brown, Ron H., 1916-1980

Cecily Cameron Papers

  • UQFL439
  • Collection
  • 1889-1992

Correspondence, minutes, reports, bulletins, flyers, photographs and notes relating to the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland and its Secretary from 1952 until 1969, Alex Macdonald. Includes Labour Day flyers from the 1890s and anti-conscription flyers and posters from World War One.

It includes: material produced by the Trades and Labor Council or directly relating to TLC activities, mainly in the postwar period; TLC material and material relating to political and industrial issues in which the TLC was involved; material produced by or relating to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), individual Australian trade unions and the international peak trade union bodies; documents and publications relating to pre-World War Two trade union history including Queensland trade union history, Australian trade union history, and international trade union history; and documents, newspapers and newspaper cuttings relating to the Communist Party of Australia and world communism, 1968-1969 which is mainly concerned with CPA congresses and CPA deliberations over the direction of the Party and world communism, particularly in relation to events in Czechoslovakia.

Cameron, Cecily, 1934-2007

Leo Lenane Papers

  • UQFL34
  • Collection
  • 1940-1972

Correspondence, press clippings, reports, pamphlets, relating to Waterside Workers Federation, Australian shipping, Communism in Australia, labour conditions in general.

Lenane, Leo

Nancy Wills Papers

  • UQFL304
  • Collection
  • 1950-1993

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.

Wills, Nancy, 1920-2005

Jim and Pamela Crawford Papers

  • UQFL301
  • Collection
  • [1917]-1997.

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.

Crawford, Jim, 1908-1973

Communist Party of Australia (Queensland Branch) Records

  • UQFL234
  • Collection
  • 1937-1990.

Includes: State committee minutes; correspondence; state and federal Communist electoral material 1937 onwards; Communist Party, Queensland Branch District Conference papers 1951-59; subject files covering issues such as 'Aboriginal issues' and 'Youth'; miscellaneous pamphlets and newspaper clippings; extensive range of photographs.

Communist Party of Australia

Constance Healy Papers

  • UQFL191
  • Collection
  • [193-?]-2010.

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.

Healy, Connie

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