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Published 22-03-2016
ISBN 9780522863864
Pages 143
Subjects History
Imprint MUP Digital

On the World of the Sixty-Nine Tram

Janet McCalman

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Published 22-03-2016
ISBN 9780522863864
Pages 143
Subjects History
Imprint MUP Digital

The MUP Masterworks series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Other writers in the series include Manning Clark, A.A. Phillips, Donald Horne, Ray Parkin and Brenda Niall.

Janet McCalman writes about people and the environments, events and forces that shape them. This extract from her award-winning book Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990 is a vivid account of the school years of Australians who were young in the 1930s, and are grandparents and great-grandparents now.

About The Author

Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next: Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19’ in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of…