Political History
Blog Posts
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.
