Charity and Justice: The early days of the Benevolent Society in Sydney

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Author
Bluett, Ros
Publication Date
24 March 2013
Publisher
ABC Radio National Hindsight
URL
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/the-benevolent/4552918
Description
In the bicentennial year of the Benevolent Society's foundation, Hindsight visits their archives in the Mitchell Library with family historians, and traces key milestones in its early Sydney history.

Interviews with family historians Max Carrick, Sue Millwood, Anne Wimshurst; Paul Brunton, Emeritus Curator Mitchell Library; Associate Professor Anne O'Brien of University of NSW; Dr Erin Ihde of University of New England; Dr Tanya Evans, Macquarie University.

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