Joe Davis interviewed by Peter Parkhill for the Voices from the Illawarra collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1038023
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Davis, Joseph, 1956-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 127 min.): analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track mono.
- Series:
- Voices from the Illawarra collection.
- Summary:
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Joseph Davis, born in Bulli, N.S.W., was brought up in Thirroul, N.S.W. Davis talks about his family background; his father being a merchant seaman and wharf labourer; poverty; the Depression; townships/villages in the region, originally dairy country; N.S.W. Railways; his schooling in Thirroul; migrants; car ownership; steam trains; Thirroul society; Bulli High School, teachers; extracurricular activities; friends in 1960s; the beach; Communism; class differences; gender differences; sectarianism, religion; Thirroul class structure, rural, professionals, intellectuals and landowners; the orchards at Thirroul in 1940s; his teacher's scholarship, Wollongong University; 1960s - 70s; life at university, student lifestyle; university staff; university politics, hippies, alcohol, music; his Honours thesis; D.H. Lawrence’s home at Thirroul, ‘Wyewurk’, protest movement, a heritage order; post graduate study; first teaching jobs; Manning Clark; his book about D.H. Lawrence; Thirroul at the time Lawrence lived there; the Wobblies, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); miners; strikes; community history; his publications.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Jan. 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Parkhill, Peter, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1995
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