Bob James papers

MLMSS 11693/Boxes 1-61
MLMSS 11693/Box 62X

fonds

1963-1996

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects

954869

10.23 metres of textual material (61 boxes and 1 outsize box) including photographs

Dr Bob James collection focuses on anarchism, libertarianism, feminism, the Down to Earth Movement, communal and alternative living, alternative farming, planning and development. It comprises published material, mostly incomplete runs of serials and newsletters, ephemera, correspondence, handwritten and typed notes, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, journal and magazine articles.

BOX 1
Anarchism
The storm: a journal of free spirits 1977-1979
Kick it over 1985-1988
Strike: the newspaper dedicated to direct action 1981-1984

BOX 2
Anarchism
Folk music
925 No. 10 – No. 20

BOX 3
Anarchism
Poetry
Red and black: an anarchist journal 1966-1989
Acracia 1973-1975

BOX 4
Anarchism
Anarchist review 1977-1982
The leveller 1976-1982

BOX 5
Anarchism
Black flag fortnightly: journal of anarchist ideas, news and comments 1972-1985
Correspondence

BOX 6
Anarchism
Freedom anarchist fortnightly 1975-1983

BOX 7
Anarchism
Freedom: anarchist monthly 1984-1986
Freedom: anarchist magazine 1987-1989
Reality now 1985-1986
Social anarchism: a journal of practice and theory 1980-1987
Social anarchism: essays, reviews & more 1984-1985
Black rose 1979-1980

BOX 8
Anarchism
Various anarchist publications

BOX 9
Anarchism
North American anarchist 1979-1981
Open road 1976-1988
Jura Books correspondence

BOX 10
Anarchism
Self-management
Federation of Australian Anarchists bulletin 1975
No limits: Brisbane anarchist newsletter 1980
Cane toad times 1979-1982

BOX 11
Anarchism
Socialism
Flyer: the south east coast monthly
Dingo: a peoples paper 1972
History and geography of anarchism Venezia 1984
Copied chapter 10 with annotated notes of Die geschichte des anarchismus by Max Nettlau
Correspondence 1977-1978
Sam Rosa
Francesco Ferrer
Larry Petrie

BOX 12
Anarchism
Nazis
Secret police
Anarchist age weekly review 1995-1999
Anarchist age monthly review 1995-1998
Covert action information bulletin 1984-1986

BOX 13
Anarchism
The fifth estate 1981-1988
Our generation 1972-1985

BOX 14
Alternative media
Everything: anarchist-feminist magazine 1979-1983
Ideas Centre bulletin 1979-1980
Bulletin of anarchist research 1985-1991

BOX 15
Anti-authoritarian diary 1985 annotated
Filmnews 1978-1984
Alternate news service 1975-1979
Film ephemera

BOX 16
Libertarians and pluralists
Arts media
The clarion: the journalists’ weekly 1980
The eye: a quarterly journal of satire comment and reportage (serial) 1988-1991
Dharma: for a universal society 1975-1979
Heraclitus 1980-1981
Libertarian 1976
Broadsheet 1966-1978
The Sydney line: a selection of comments and criticisms / by Sydney Libertarians. held SLNSW
The Pluralist: a dissident quarterly 1963-1965

BOX 17
Libertarian politics

BOX 18
Peace movement
Nuclear disarmament
The First Australian History and Film Conference papers, 1982 / edited by Anne Hutton. held SLNSW
Access: Australia’s radical magazine 1982-1984
Peace news for nonviolent revolution 1975-1978
Embroidered cloth banner
Cloth patch and ribbon

BOX 19
Workers
Alternative technologies
Syndicalist bulletin 1970s
Defiance: newsletter of the Newcastle anarchists
Rebel worker 1982-1996

BOX 20
Feminism
Mabel: Australian feminist newspaper 1970s
Learning exchange: a community newspaper for information, sharing and learning (Melbourne and A.C.T.) 1970s

BOX 21
Feminism
The Eye: a quarterly journal of satire comment and reportage 1987-1990
Rouge: Australian feminist newspaper 1979-1980
Women's news service 1976-1982
Girls' own: Sydney feminist newspaper 1981-1982
Women's Electoral Lobby A.C.T. Newsletter 1975-1976

BOX 22
Feminism
Various feminist serials
Everything: anarchist-feminist magazine 1983

BOX 23
Feminism
Scarlet woman 1976-1978
Spare rib 1978
Anarchist feminist magazine 1983-1985
Rupert public interest journal

BOX 24
Gender roles
Women’s action
Arthur Desmond
John Dwyer
William Charles Andrade
Larrikins
J.A. Andrews
E.J. Brady
Robert Beattie
New Australia

BOX 25
Council of Social Service of the A.C.T.
Human relations A.C.T.
Male relationships
Changing work: a magazine about liberating worklife
Student union publications

BOX 26
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth news 1978-1981
Confest newsletters, correspondence and minutes

BOX 27
Down to Earth Network
Confest 1982

BOX 28
Down to Earth Network
Confest Bredbo 1977-1978 - Correspondence
Confest Berri 1979 – Correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, financial statements
Nambassa Newsletter
Alternative Conference July 1978 – Flyers, registered attendees, correspondence
Earth Haven – List of attendees, correspondence
Universal workshop – Notes

BOX 29
Down to Earth Network
Confest Berri 1979 – Photo album
Community organisation notes
Down to Earth Confest 1979 – Correspondence
Preston Institute social work project
Down to Earth Melbourne Festival 1979
Community Radio Federation 1978-1982

BOX 30
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth Victoria 1980-1981
Open Mind – Courses, enrolment forms, tutors, ideas, publicity, finance
Glenlyon Confest papers

BOX 31
Down to Earth Network
Open Mind 1980-1981
Confest 1984

BOX 32
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth 1978-1981
Alternative education – booklets & correspondence

BOX 33
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth news -1979-1984
Down to Earth South Australia newsletter 1979-1981
Down to Earth newsletter 1978-1982

BOX 34
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth Victoria
Down to Earth Canberra
Down to Earth Queensland newsletter 1978-1981
Register of tools
Confest 1980
Community factory project 1980
French Island Festival – correspondence, minutes, newsletters

BOX 35
Down to Earth Network
Down to Earth news 1978-1983
Artwork for various print jobs

BOX 36
Down to Earth Network
First Exhibition of Alternatives
Confest 1982
Film catalogues
Community education newsletter 1980
Confest 1981 publicity material
Paid invoices 1981-1982
Timetable

BOX 37
Communal living
Community groups
Bush telegraph October 1976-August 1977

BOX 38
Alternative communities
Co-ordination cooperative 1980-1981

BOX 39
Alternative communities
Powder magazine 1974-1975
New leaves 1987

BOX 40
Alternative living
Alternative communities
Communities : a journal of cooperative living

BOX 41
Patriarchy
Alternative living
Alternative communities
Festivals in Australia: an intimate history by Adrian Rawlins

BOX 42
Co-operatives
Glenfield Co-operative Society
Libertarian workers bulletin 1979-1987

BOX 43
Nimbin news 1978-1985

BOX 44
Sunshine news 1979-1980

BOX 45
Sunshine news 1981-1982
Maggie's farm: alternative network magazine 1979-1985

BOX 46
Alternative farming techniques
Permaculture: the journal of the national permaculture association

BOX 47
Chain reaction: the national magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia 1975-1987

BOX 48
Rural living
Australian society 1983-1984
Broadside 1969
Rural living position paper
Policy discussion paper on sustainable rural resettlement
Alternative handbook 1983
Rural retreats: urban investment in rural land for residential purposes
National Co-operative Housing Conference papers

BOX 49
New journalist 1974-1984
Directories for alternative services

BOX 50
Undercurrents: the magazine of radical science and peoples' technology 1974-1984

BOX 51
Aboriginals
Alternative education
Old mole 1970-1971
Cold comfort 1971-1974
Aboriginal news 1974-1979

BOX 52
Alternative housing
Alternative power
Canberra planning and development

BOX 53
Canberra housing
Canberra community groups
Built environment

BOX 54
Planning and development of Canberra
Alternative communities
Pedal power 1975-1980

BOX 55
Reports and submissions on planning, housing and welfare in the Australian Capital Territory

BOX 56
XX communique 1970s-1980s
Double extra news 1970s-1980s

BOX 57
Planning and welfare
Architectural design 1974-1976
Hunter regional plans
Planning and development Australian Capital Territory

BOX 58
The Coevolution quarterly 1974-1980

BOX 59
Organic food
Alternative farming practices
Gay news
Males against sexism
ANZAC Day rallies
New Australia
Henry Lawson

BOX 60
Billie and the anarchists: a play by John S Baker
Bob James overseas field study diary 1975
Bob James correspondence with newspapers and journals
Review of libertarian politics - accounts and correspondence
Alternative lifestyles - accounts and correspondence
A reader of Australian anarchism - correspondence

BOX 61
Bob James masters research covering the years 1886-1897

BOX 62X
Rolling stone magazine 1972-1975
Anti-authoritarian calendar 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986
Evidently - public press clipping service

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