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Title
Date(s)
- 1950-1993 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
6 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Nancy Wills (1920-2005, also known as Nance Macmillan, which may have been her birth name) was an author and playwright. She married seaman and instrument maker Geoff Wills (1919 -2000) on 1 May 1948. They were members of the Communist Arts Group. Wills became a friend of Afro-American singer and activist Paul Robeson and in 1987 wrote a play about his life.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [196-]-[198-]
Collection alternatively titled as: Nancy Wills Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
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Access points
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Place access points
Name access points
- Wills, Nancy, 1920-2005 (Subject)
- Communist Arts Group (Brisbane, Qld.) (Subject)
- Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985 (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.