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Author

Bluett, Ros

Title

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

Imprint

ABC Radio National Hindsight, 24 March 2013

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.

Related Entries

Archival Series

• Index To Admissions And Discharges, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1852 - 1913)
• Index To Admissions And Discharges, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1932 - 1937)
• Infants' Hospital History Book, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (c. 1911)
• Inmates Journals, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1852 - 1913)
• Obstetrics Journals: Form For Admission Of Waiting Patients, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1909 - 1914)
• Patients' Medical Records, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1937 - 1956)
• Register Of Baptisms, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1902 - 1964)
• Registers Of Admissions And Discharges, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1857 - 1905)
• Scarba House: Matron's Diary, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1964 - 1969)
• Sister's Day And Night Report Books, Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1966 - 1971)

Glossary Terms

• Benevolent Asylum

Organisations

• Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)
• Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1813 - )
• Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children (1858 - 1915)
• Renwick Hospital for Infants, Thomas Street (1911 - 1920)
• Royal Hospital for Women (1901 - )
• Scarba House for Children (1965 - 1986)
• Scarba Welfare House for Children (1920 - 1965)
• Scarba Welfare House for Women and Children (1917 - 1920)
• State Library of New South Wales (1827 - )
• Thomas Street Asylum (1904 - 1911)

Related Publications

isRelated

• Historypin: The Benevolent Society channel, The Benevolent Society, 2011, https://www.historypin.org/en/person/28447. Details
• Rathbone, Ron, A Very Present Help: Caring for Australians Since 1813, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1994, 237 pp. Details
• 'Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington NSW', in History Pin: The Benevolent Society, The Benevolent Society, 2011, https://www.historypin.org/en/royal-hospital-for-women-paddington-nsw/geo/-33.883555,151.225563,5/bounds/-48.439701,139.554649,-16.356412,162.896477/paging/1. Details