MS 8856 comprises personal and family papers; correspondence; drafts of published works; papers on mastectomy rehabilitation and the Mastectomy Association; papers relating to the small press Nadjuri Australia, 1976-1980; scrapbooks; papers documenting Flannery's broadcasting career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Station 5DN; papers relating to the South Australian State Heritage Branch, 1981-1986; and personal diaries (52 boxes, 2 fol. boxes).
The Acc06.121 instalment includes a typescript of a paper presented in Adelaide by Flannery for the Friends of Mawson, 2006 (1 folder).
The Acc13.100 instalment comprises an anotated script used by Ian Flannery during the 2005 recreation of a lecture by Sir Douglas Mawson on his return from the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Nancy and Ian Flannery were involved in the production of the live event, which was put on by the Friends of Mawson, Adelaide (1 packet).
Writer. Nancy Elizabeth Flannery (née Noon) was born at Gawler, South Australia on 12 August, 1929. She worked as a journalist and broadcaster before establishing a small publishing firm, Nadjuri. Her first book, Change on change: a history of the northern highlands of South Australia was published in 1971. As an editor Flannery published Bend down and listen: folk tales from Mannanarie (1972 and 1974), Stagg of Tarcowie: the diaries of a colonial teenager, 1885-1887 (1973), The Net result: profiles of executive women: an anthology (1992), and, This everlasting silence: the love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914 (2000). Her other publications included Sweet breathes the breast: a mastectomy rehabilitation handbook (1974), and, Reluctant harbour: the romance of Pirie (1976). Flannery was formerly married to David Robinson and later to Dr A.W.G. Whittle and she also published under the name of Nancy Robinson. She married Ian Flannery in 1990. Nancy Flannery died in 2011.
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