Brian Laver interviewed by Connie Healy, 21 Mar 2002
| العنوان: | Brian Laver interviewed by Connie Healy, 21 Mar 2002 |
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| المؤلفون: | Healy, Constance, 1923-2016 |
| المساهمون: | Laver, Brian |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Laver, Brian -- Interviews, Socialism -- Australia, Book clubs (Bookselling) -- Queensland -- Brisbane, Society for Democratic Action, Political clubs -- Queensland, Bookshops -- Queensland -- Brisbane, Independent retailing, Booksellers and bookselling -- Queensland -- Brisbane, Radicalism -- Australia, Social movements -- Australia, hist, art |
| الوصف: | Constance (Connie) Healy grew up in Brisbane. She worked for the Waterside Workers' Federation and, from the 1930s, became heavily involved with the Unity/New Theatre and the Communist Party of Australia. After World War 2, which claimed the life of her first husband, she married prominent Queensland Union leader, Mick Healy. Her interest in theatre and her involvement in political activity continued throughout the post-war decades. She was particularly active in the struggle for justice for Aboriginal people. In 2000 Connie Healy's Masters thesis on the history of Brisbane working class and radical theatre was published as Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962. She was a regular contributor to the Queensland Journal of Labour History and in 2009 was awarded life membership of the Brisbane Labour History Association.The Constance Healy Papers consist of: research material for her thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): 'A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)' : mostly playscripts; research material for 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000); publications, typescript reports and newsletters relating to the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders; personal papers of Murray Norris and Ursula Southwell; and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in the labour movement and radical culture circles; oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, left-wing bookshops in Brisbane and left-wing political activism; some records of the Communist Party of Australia; photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike; research material on the post-WW2 peace movement; . |
| نوع الوثيقة: | other/unknown material |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:9c3ca23 |
| الاتاحة: | https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:9c3ca23 |
| Rights: | undefined |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.5FF4E372 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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