Papers of Ken and Amirah Inglis, approximately 1930-2008
- Bib ID:
- 7787102
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Inglis, K. S. (Kenneth Stanley), 1929-2017
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MS 10165 copy
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Part available for research; part requires permission for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [between approximately 1930 and 2008]
- 3.15 m (21 boxes)
- Summary:
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This collection contains personal correspondence between Ken and Amirah Inglis, as well as correspondence with colleagues and friends. There are drafts of writings and related research material, together with personal documents and biographical papers relating to the Inglis' school and university years. Topics represented in the collection include the ABC, military history, indigenous Australians, Papua New Guinea and obituaries of notable Australians (21 boxes).
- Biography/History:
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Historian and academic. Kenneth Stanley (Ken) Inglis was an historian whose books include Hospital and community: a history of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (1958), The Stuart case (1961 and 2002), Churches and the working classes in Victorian England (1963), The Australian colonists: an exploration of social history, 1788-1870 (1974 and 1993), and Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape (1998, 2005 and 2008). He edited the 12-volume bicentennial history Australians, a historical library (1987). Inglis also wrote two books on the ABC, This is the ABC: the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1983 (1983), and Whose ABC?: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983-2006 (2006). His academic posts included senior lecturer, University of Adelaide, 1956-1960; vice-chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea, 1972-1975; professor of Australian studies at Harvard University, 1982; and, emeritus professor of history at the Australian National University.
Author and political activist. Amirah Inglis was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1926 and moved to Australia with her mother in 1929. Inglis grew up in Melbourne and lived in Canberra in the 1960s where she worked as a teacher at Lyneham High School. Between 1967 and 1974 Inglis and her husband academic Ken Inglis lived in Papua New Guinea. Their stay in Papua New Guinea was the inspiration for Inglis' first book which launched her writing career. In addition to essays and reviews, Inglis has written two volumes of autobiography, Amirah, an un-Australian childhood (1983), and, The hammer & sickle and the washing up: memories of an Australian woman communist (1995). She also contributed to the published memoirs of her father Itzhak Gust. Inglis joined the Communist Party in 1945 at Melbourne University and remained a member for 16 years.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference number: MS 10165.
- MS 10165 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-700252081
- Subject:
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- Inglis, K. S. (Kenneth Stanley), 1929-2017 -- Archives
- Inglis, K. S. (Kenneth Stanley), 1929-2017 -- Correspondence
- Inglis, Amirah, 1926-2015 -- Archives
- Inglis, Amirah, 1926-2015 -- Correspondence
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- History
- Historians -- Australia -- Archives
- College teachers -- Australia -- Archives
- College administrators -- Papua New Guinea -- Archives
- Communists -- Australia -- Archives
- Political activists -- Australia -- Archives
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Archives
- Historiography -- Australia
- Television broadcasting -- Australia -- History
- Radio broadcasting -- Australia -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia
- Australia -- History
- Papua New Guinea
- Time Coverage:
- 1930-2008
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Inglis, Amirah, 1926-2015
- Terms of Use:
- Research copying of Ken and Amirah Inglis's copyright material is permitted (except for Boxes 1-8 and Boxes 20-21, for which written permission is required until 2035).
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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