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RECENT ADDITIONS JANUARY 2017 Australian Literature the Birdman’S Wife (Novel About Mrs Gould) / Melissa Ashley 2016 INSIDE Mysteries Australian Literature RECENT ADDITIONS JANUARY 2017 Australian Literature The Birdman’s Wife (novel about Mrs Gould) / Melissa Ashley 2016 INSIDE Mysteries Australian Literature .1 Slaughter Park (Belltree 3) / Barry Maitland 2016 Australian History .....1 Signal Loss (Peninsula Crimes 7) / Garry Disher 2016 Victoria ..................... 3 Australian History Other States .............. 12 Aboriginal Australians 15 Books Art and Artists .........16 The Dust of the Mindye: The use of biological warfare in the conquest of Australia / Jim Poulter 2016 Biographies ..............16 The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia / Purushottama Bilimoria, Family History ......... 17 Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Philip Hughes 2015 Military Histories ....18 Town and Bush: Stray notes on Australia / Nat Gould 1974 Railways ...................18 The Masonic Grand Masters of Australia / Kent Henderson 1988 Politics & Government 18 The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006 / Nonja Peters 2006 The Shearers’ War: The story of the 1891 shearers’ strike / Stuart Svensen ABOUT THE PMI 2008 39 St Edmonds Road Tales of the Overland: Queensland to Kimberley in 1885 / G.H. Lamond Prahran VIC 3181 2013 ABN 1316 4635 256 Public Expenditures and Social Policy in Australia. Vol.2: The first Fraser years Sec. Lib.: Steven Haby 1976-78 / edited by R.B. Scotton and Helen Ferber 1980 Pres: Mr Steve Stefanopoulos Money Made Us [how economic values shaped Australia] / Donald Horne 1977 CONTACT T 03 9510 3393 The Way We Were: Australian popular magazines 1856-1969 / Vane Lindesay 1983 E [email protected] W www.pmi.net.au From the Edge: Australia’s lost histories / Mark McKenna 2016 Gangland Robbers / James Morton and Susanna Lobez 2016 OPEN: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri Surf-o-Rama: Treasures of Australian surfing (New edition) / Murray Walding 9:30am - 4:30pm 2016 Thu Only in Australia: The history, politics, and economics of Australian 9:30am - 7pm exceptionalism / edited by William O. Coleman 2016 excluding public holidays and the Christmas/New Year period. The Australian National Dictionary: Australian words and their origins (2 volumes) / Bruce Moore, Amanda Laugesen, Mark Gwynn and others 2nd ed. (not for loan) 2016 A Single Tree: Voices from the bush / Don Watson 2016 Under Full Sail / Rob Mundle 2016 The Story of Australia’s people: The rise and rise of ancient Australia / Geoffrey Blainey 2015 Victorian History Library PRAHRAN MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE ▪ Recent Additions ▪ JANUARY 2017 1 RECENT ADDITIONS 1787: The lost chapters of Australia’s beginnings / Nick Brodie 2016 Little Fish are Sweet [Queensland police corruption] / Matthew Condon 2016 All Fall Down [Queensland police corruption] / Matthew Condon 2016 Periodicals Cinema and Theatre Historical Society: cinema record P 792 CIN No. 92 2016: Richmond National Theatre / Les Tod p6. Stanley-a brief history of the town hall p9. Blackett and Forster: Architects of the Barkley Theatre Footscray p10. $mall change [admission prices, Melbourne Regent Theatre 1929] p11. The Stargazer Drive-In, Thurgoona, NSW / David Scott p12. Who would want to work at the pictures (part 4) [Cremorne Orpheum, Dendy Cinema] / Steve Maggs p16. The Comedy Theatre Melbourne / Fred Page p19. My story: At the Darwin Drive-In / Patti Izod p23. Now showing [Barkly Theatre Footscray, Waverley Theatre East Malvern, Circle Theatre Essendon, Broadway Theatre Elwood, Lyric Theatre Brunswick, Dux Theatre Albert Park] / Royce Harris p26. My 50 years at 191 Collins Street [Regent Theatre] / Ian Williams p30. Ballarat’s Civic Hall / Earl Martell p32. Municpal Theatre, Charleville / Gerry Kennedy p34. Recollections of the Victory Picture Theatre Taringa, Queensland / Eric Marggraf p36. A snapshot in time [drive-in theatres] p39. Australian National Dictionary Centre: Oz Words P 427 DIC Vol. 25 No.2 OCTOBER 2016: Mailbag [Gnarly, at sparrow fart, metallician, enough to drive a body beresk, fang it fangio] p4. The Australian Comic Dictionary / Mark Gwynn p6. 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Michael Clarke / Graham Beanland p89. Meeting Jesus at the centre [memories of Peter Autmen and his work in the Uniting Church] / Peter Autmen p102. Mutual Improvement Societies [Congregational: Ballarat, Bendigo, Camberwell, Castlemaine, Prahran, West Melbourne, Windsor. Methodist: Ballarat, Bamawm, Canterbury and Balwyn, Chilwell, Colac, Eaglehawk, Footscray, Horsham, Ivanhoe, Newtown, North Melbourne, Northcote, Port Melbourne, Prahran, Queenscliffe, Sale, South Yarra, Toorak. Presbyterian: Bendigo, Boort, Echuca, Footscray, Geelong (St Luke’s, St Andrews), Murchison, North Carlton, Port Melbourne, Thornbury, Toolamba, Wodonga / Ken James p111. Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee: the wayfarer P 820 GOR No. 40 DECEMBER 2016: Commemorative plaque [Gordon’s house between Penzance Street and Brighton Road] p2. Extract from An Unsentimental Journey part thee (The Australasian Saturday 3 April 1869, pages 11, 12) p4. 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