Political History

Blog Posts

Eight Hour League

Collections

Newcastle Trades Hall Finding Aid - Not digitised. This collection includes the archives of the Newcastle Trades Hall and affiliated Trade Unions, which date from the 1870s.

Josiah Cocking - Diaries of a Newcastle Socialist

Merv and Janet Copley were Novocastrians who played a significant part in the development and expansion of the Newcastle Unionist Movement from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Members of dozens of leftist societies and committees, the Copleys were instrumental to the development of anti-air pollution legislation in the 1960s, the International Women’s Day celebrations held in Newcastle, and increased union rights within New South Wales. 

Publications

Bob and His Weird Mob - a satirical caricature of Sir Robert Menzies

How to Become Rich - pamphlet by 'Mother of Australian Labor' Bertha McNamara

Organizations 

Radical Newcastle - In 2010, Dr James Bennett founded the Radical Newcastle project, which aims to recover the radical and submerged dimensions of Newcastle’s past and present.