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Prahran Mechanic’s Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2020 MARCH RECENT ADDITIONS AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE Books Lucky Ticket / Joey Bui (2019) Diving Into Glass / Caro Llewellyn (2019) When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over / Many Orr (2019) There Was Still Love / Favel Parrett (2019) Here Until August / Josephine Rowe (2019) This Is How We Change The Ending / Vikki Wakefield (2019) Shirl / Wayne Marshall (2020) The Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978 / Helen Garner (2019) Room for a Stranger / Melanie Cheng (2019) A Testament of Character / Sulari Gentill (2020) Periodicals Australian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR No.419 MARCH 2020: Season of reckoning [Black Summer bushfires] / Tom Griffiths p9. ‘Australian Soul’: a stellar work of Australian history [Attending to the national soul: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1914-2014 by Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder] / Hugh Chilton p14. Crisis lexicon [words used in a crisis] / Amanda Laugesen p17. A multifarious mind [Aftershocks: selected writings and interviews by Anthony Macris] / Kari Gislason p18. Rewriting Lawson [The Drover’s wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell] / Ellen van Neerven p24. Larrikins [Collected stories by Louis Nowra] / Gerard Windsor p25. City of shadows [True West by David Whish-Wilson] / Stephen Dedman p28. Inner worlds: three debuts about female experience [Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy, The Light After the War by Anita Abriel, Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden] / Susan Midalia p29. Suddenly last summer: the politics of climate change in Australia / David Holmes p36. Insights [Chis: the life and work of Alan Rowland Chisholm 1888-1981 by Stanley John Scott p45. ‘dripping with gum’: a lavish account of Australian Botany [Botanical revelation: European cncounters with Australian plants before Darwin by David J. Mabberley] / Danielle Clode p46. Shaping the land: Indigenous fire management in Australia [Fire country: how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia by Victor Steffensen] / Tim Low p52. Surging into the spotlight: Writing trans and gender-diverse lives [Over the top by Jonathan van Ness, About a girl: a mother’s powerful story of raising a transgender child by Rebekah Robertson, Not just a tomboy by Caspar J. Baldwin] / Yves Rees p54. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam [play] / Susan Lever p60. The Deep Blue Sea [play] Ian Dickson p61. True History of the Kelly Gang [film] / Jordon Prosser p62. Fidelio [play] / Elizabeth Kertesz p63. Stage Whispers [Klippel at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Visitations, Disgustedly yours] p64. Surveying the musical [The Australian Musical from the Beginning by Petter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston] / Gillian Wills p67. Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2020 MARCH 2 RECENT ADDITIONS AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Books Back Roads: The stories behind some of Australia’s most remarkable and inspiring rural communities / Heather Ewart and Karen Michelmore (2018) Being Left Wing in Australia: Identity culture and politics after socialism / Geoff Robinson (2019) Out of the Madhouse: From asylums to caring community / Sandy Jeffs and Margaret Leggatt (2020) Banking Bad / Adele Ferguson (2019) Periodicals Ephemera Society Australia Inc.: ephemera journal of Australia P 027 EPH JOU No.5 MARCH 2020: Ida who? [Ida Sherborne Rentoul, 1888-1960] p1. Wild about Ida [about her commercial works] / Andrew N. with Amanda Bede p2. Swing high [about a form of ephemera called Swing Tags, which the author collects] / Wendi Bradshaw p25. Been there! [Information about pennants] / Dr Anette Shiell p29. VICTORIA Books Bendigo Pride of Place: The first 60 years of building in Bendigo and surrounds / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2011) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Hidden Worlds: Glimpses from Bendigo’s Forest Street archaeological excavation / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2012) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Childhood: Growing Up in Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2012) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Mapping Great Change: The landscape of central Victoria / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2013) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887-2013 / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2013) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo A Cure for All Ills: Medicine in Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2014) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Crime and Punishment: A history of Bendigo’s law and order / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2014) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Taverns to Temperance: Pubs of Bendigo / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2017) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo Vale – Mourning, Remembrance & Spiritualism in Bendigo 1851-1901 / Bendigo Post Office Gallery (2019) [donated by Bendigo Post Office Gallery] Bendigo The Legend of Buz-E-Chini / Afghan families of Bendigo (2018) Bendigo Counting With Karen Culture / Karen families of Bendigo (2018) Carlton Through The Eyes of a Child: A street in Carlton 1939-45 / Paintings and commentary by Des Norman (2013) Caulfield The Old School: A portrait of Caulfield Grammar School in 50 lives / David Thomson (2019) Kew A Better, Gentler School: Music at Xavier College / Fiona Walters (1999) [donated by HistorySmiths Pty Ltd] Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library | RECENT ADDITIONS | 2020 MARCH 3 RECENT ADDITIONS Kew Xaverians On Active Service: From South Africa to Vietnam / Catherine Waterhouse (2001) [donated by Xavier College] Melbourne Discovery, Survey and Settlement of Port Phillip / GW Rusden (1871) Melbourne Angry Penguins: And realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940s / NGA (1989) Melbourne Album of Melbourne Views / Advance Australia (1888) Melbourne Carhitecture in Melbourne / Derham Groves (2017) [donated by Mary Louise Phillips] Murchison Thornebridge: The Bridge Hotel at Murchison / Jennifer F. O’Donnell (2019) [donated by Jennifer O’Donnell] Periodicals National Trust Victoria P 363.69 TRU No.17 AUTUMN 2020: Making news [Como appeal, Australian Heritage Festival, Indigenous dwelling at McCrae Homestead, Gulf Station Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Survey, Collections Databse, The Labassa story] p10. The Vintage Clothing Sale - Celebrating 10 years [21-22 March 2020] p16. Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears - The Exhibition [At Rippon Lea Estate 20 March - 19 July] p21. The Cat, Spivs and Crime [Collection of objects at Old Melbourne Gaol] p24. The Pryor House [Residential property in Glen Iris] p28. Conservation projects in 2020 p30. Advocacy Watchlist [History of LGBTIQ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects, Federation Square, Lake Tyrrell, Esme Johnston House, Moreland Significant Tree Register, Mary Immaculate Church--Ivanhoe, Sturt Street Gardens--Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour, Central Pier--Docklands, Beaconsfield Avenue of Honour, Queen Victoria Market, Tower Hill State Game Reserve] p40. 5 Top Australian Nature Walks [Bridle Track--Norfolk Island, Bald Head Walk Trail--Torndirrup National Park, Lake Dove Circuit--Cradle Mountain National Park, Wineglass Bay Beach to Hazards Beach, Giant Stairway-- Katoomba] p44. Living in the Landscape [Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine, Western QLD] / Justin Buckley p46. Vale [obituary for Bryan Powyer and Trevor Horman] p51. Ararat Ararat Genealogical Society: newsletter P 994.57 ARAR ARA FEBRUARY 2020: Continuing our 100 years ago from the Ararat Advertiser [Sad fatality at Tulkara, Obituary--Mr W.G. Moorfoot, Tatyoon, Hospital for insane, Housing crisis, W.J. Foster--new owner of Albion Hotel, Memorial at Mount Cole, Obituary--Mr C.H. Lyne, Frederick Sydney Carter--died from typhoid fever, Working over hours--Case at Ararat Court, Licensing Act Prosecutions--Scott’s Hotel & Hopkins Hotel, Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic, Obituary--Mr Daniel Smith, Social notes- -Johnson-Clark, Mr W.B. Radley’s