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Papers of Michael Denholm
MSS 035

Collection Title

Papers of Michael Denholm

Collection Identifier

MSS 035

Inclusive date(s)

1920 to 1990

Extent and Medium

47 boxes + 3 oversize + 1 plan cabinet

Category

Literature

Subject: Person(s)

Subject: Organisation(s)

Collection Description

Collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, articles, magazines and copies of published material

Administrative / Biographical history

Author, editor and curator Michael Denholm was born in 1951 in Hobart, Tasmania. He attended first the University of Tasmania then the University of New South Wales, completing a course in librarianship. In 1972 he authored a thesis on Prime Minister Lyons, and in 1979 co-founded the Tasmanian Review (later Island Magazine, then Island). Denholm was co-editor of the magazine until he moved to Canberra as curator of the Australian Special Research Collection at the Australian Defence Force Academy. His research and writing interests include art history, politicians and small press publishing

References:

Austlit : Michael Denholm https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20030 retrieved 21 April 2020

Acquisition Details

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Scope and Content

Collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, articles, magazines, and the manuscript of 'Small Press Publishing in Australia, the early 1970s'. Includes material on the career of Sir Robert Menzies and the manuscript of 'First Rights, a Decade of Island Magazine'

Appraisal & Processing Information

Awaiting processing: 42 boxes

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: Check with Curator

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

Copying: Check with Curator

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Related and Separated Materials

Related Material

Further papers of Michael Denholm are held by the National Library of Australia at MS Acc03/​176


Separated Material

This collection originally included numerous publications, listed below. These works have been catalogued separately and added to the UNSW Library collection.

The Impossible Attainment by Dr Jim Cairns

Australian Labor Party Policy Speech - 1972

Liberal Achievement - 1949-1971

Communist China's Objective

The Liberal Party of Australia : Its Origin, Organisation and Purpose

Two Souls of Socialism by Hal Draper

No War for Oil Monopolies : Hands off the Middle East by Rupert Lockwood

Draft Report on Publishing Industry

Arts Report - Tasmania 1989

Poems from a Peach Melba Hat by Shelton Lea

Foxybaby by Elizabeth Jolley

Strangers' Country and Other Stories by Geoffrey Dean

Costumes : Poems and Prose by Susan Hampton

Aspects of the Dying Process : Short Stories by Michael Wilding

Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems by David Malouf

Canada 1896-1921 : A National Transformed by Robert Craig Brown and Ramsay Cook

Around Circular Head by Pauline Buckby

It by Chris Aulich

The Short Story Embassy : a Novel by Michael Wilding

The New Australian Poetry by John Tranter

Political Essays by Hugh Stretton

The Polish Immigrant : Migrant Poems (1972-82) by Peter Skrzynecki

Ikons by George Papaellinas

Cross the Border by Robert Adamson

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

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