| Bib ID |
585844 |
| Format |
Audio, Online - Google Books |
| Author |
Ryan, Edna, 1904-1997
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1987 Oct. 19.
2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
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| Series |
NSW Bicentennial oral history collection
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| Summary |
Born in Pyrmont, Sydney, Ryan speaks of her early life ; going to school ; clerical employment ; studying at business college ; different homes in Sydney ; strikes ; family life ; memories of and attitudes during World War I ; memories of the 1917 general strike ; the working classes ; International Workers of the World (IWW) ; politics of 1910-1930 ; her political interests ; street corner meetings ; family reading material ; memories of the Domain ; life as a Socialist, meeting places and haunts ; favourite speakers ; socialists being framed for crimes ; socialist/working class communication ; social conditions, her own research of the period ; the War Precautions Act ; socialism and the Labor Party ; her interest in, and reading of Lenin and Russia ; Justice Beeby and working class leaders.
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| Notes |
Includes index.
Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available : 2 v. (33 p., 9 p.) |
| Subjects |
Ryan, Edna, - 1904-1997 - Interviews. | Older people - New South Wales - Biography. | Socialists - New South Wales - Social conditions - 1901-1945. | Women - New South Wales - Social conditions - 1901-1945.
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| Other Authors |
Taksa, Lucy | N.S.W. Council on the Ageing | Oral History Association of Australia. N.S.W. Branch | NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project
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