Alice Doyle interviewed by Lucy Taksa in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2089458
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Doyle, Alice, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item.
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 May 25
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 103 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, stereo
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Doyle speaks of her family's background in country and city Victoria ; moving to Sydney when 11 ; comparison of school in country and city ; religion ; brothers and sisters ; and her extended family ; employment in an umbrella factory, work, conditions, lifestyle, family reading material ; cooking and recipes ; memories of the plague in Sydney, 1903, the flu epidemic of 1918 ; memories of the general strike of 1917 and its affect on her family ; her social life as a teenager ; memories of political street corner meetings ; sprukers ; the introduction of wrist watches, electricity and surfing ; family outings ; conscription and Billy Hughes ; home life and local community spirit ; domestic work ; description of family homes in Sydney ; World War I ; meeting husband ; marriage.
- Notes:
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- 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).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216278303
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available.
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This belongs to the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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