Pages tagged “Great Depression”
Coat stitched from sugar bags
This article originally appeared in Community History 4.4 December 1994, and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
This article originally appeared in Community History 4.4 December 1994, and is republished here with the permission of History SA.
Doing it hard: the Port Adelaide Central Mission during the depression, 1926-1925 by Brian Dickey
This essay explores the complex activities of the Port Adelaide Central Mission during the Depression, investigates what it attempted, its success, and the problems still remaining. Sources include minutes and files held by the Mission, and their published writing, especially in the Australian Christian Commonwealth, the newspaper of SA Methodism.
This essay explores the complex activities of the Port Adelaide Central Mission during the Depression, investigates what it attempted, its success, and the problems still remaining. Sources include minutes and files held by the Mission, and their published writing, especially in the Australian Christian Commonwealth, the newspaper of SA Methodism.
Living in Prospect in the Playford Era
Originally published as ch.9 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia, Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide, 1996, pp.177- 200.
Originally published as ch.9 in Bernard O'Neil, Judith raftery & Kerrie Round (eds), Playford's South Australia, Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide, 1996, pp.177- 200.
Motor cars and freeways measures of a South Australian love affair
This essay first appeared as chapter 10, pp.201-21, in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round eds, Playford’s South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968 Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide 1996,
This essay first appeared as chapter 10, pp.201-21, in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery & Kerrie Round eds, Playford’s South Australia: essays on the history of South Australia, 1933-1968 Association of Professional Historians, Adelaide 1996,