Series Series B - North Queensland labour history presentations and interviews

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UQFL628-Series B

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North Queensland labour history presentations and interviews

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  • 1986-1987 (Creation)

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22 audiocassettes

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(1954 -)

Biographical history

Emeritus Professor Paul Turnbull is a cultural historian with expertise in the use of information technologies in historical research and online publication of its outcomes. He is internationally known for his research on the collecting and uses of the bodily remains of Indigenous peoples in the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. He has an international reputation in digital humanities. Professor Turnbull was Professor of History at James Cook University from 1990 to 2002, Professor of History and Head of the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University from 2004 to 2009, Professor of e-History at the University of Queensland from 2009 to 2014, and Professor of Digital Humanties and History at the University of Tasmania from 2014 to 2017.

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Audio recordings of sessions at the North Queensland Labour History Conference held at the Australian Workers' Union Hall in Townsville, from 6 to 8 June 1987. The recorded sessions are: 'Opening address' by Margaret Reynolds; 'Progressive women in the North' with Carole Ferrier, Agnes Hall and Jim Henderson; 'Aborigines in North Queensland' with Geoff Warner (Chair), Joe McGinness, Tom Sullivan, Warren Bowden and Fred Thompson; 'Labour activists between the wars' with Warren Bowden and Jim Henderson; 'Labour after the war' with Jeff Wills and Fred Thompson; and 'Labour past and present' with Tom Bland, Warren Bowden, George Bliss, Laurie Crofton, Jim Henderson and Agnes Hall. This series also includes audio recordings of one-to-one interviews conducted by Paul Turnbull with Jim Henderson, Pat Clancy, Warren Bowden, Joe Flowers and William Alexander Travers, an interview by an unidentified woman with Agnes Hall, and recollections by George Bliss, Lou Elliot, Laurie Crofton and Warren Bowden.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain voices, images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

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Unrestricted access.

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Copyright applies.

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  • English

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Original recordings are stored on analogue audiocassettes which cannot be accessed for preservation reasons. Access to content is via digital audio files.

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A duplicate set of the audio recordings from the North Queensland Labour History Conference of June 1987 can be found in the Jim Henderson Papers, UQFL267.

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Publication note

Tom Bland, et.al., The Red North Recalled : Radical Perspectives on Working Class Life in North Queensland 1936-1956 (ca. 1987).

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Box 1.

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Final

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Full

Dates of creation revision deletion

Created, JR, Apr-2021

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  • Box: UQFL628 Box 1