Anne Whitehead Paraguay Patagonia Barcaldine collection

fonds

1982-2009

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Cartographic Materials

9611621

81 audiocassettes (approximately 81 hr.)
4.64 metres of textual material (29 boxes)
774 photographs - chiefly colour
707 negatives - 35 mm, 120 mm - colour
125 slides - 35 mm - colour
14 computer discs - 12 cm - compact disc
2 videodisc - 12 cm - compact disc, DVD
1 computer chip cartridge - 1 cm - USB flash drive

Anne Whitehead is an author and historian who was born in Sydney but spent much of her childhood in England and Papua-New Guinea. She graduated from the University of Sydney (1972) with an MA in Australian Literature and later (2001) a PhD in Government and International Relations for a thesis on the women of William Lane's 1890s experiment in Paraguay: 'Women of The Working Man's Paradise'.

Whitehead spent many years working as a TV producer and director with the ABC and the Tasmanian Film Corporation as well as being a freelance film and TV screenwriter and script-editor. She also travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and the US and spent four months in India in 1998-99 on an Asialink Literary Fellowship.

In her extensive work on the New Australia and Cosme utopian colonies, Whitehead has journeyed three times to Paraguay, visiting the two sites - Nueva Australia and Colonia Cosme – where she recorded interviews with numerous descendants, who ranged from farmers to merchant bankers and cattle ranchers.

From this research Whitehead developed a radio documentary series, Paradise Lost, produced by the ABC Social History Unit, broadcast in 1990 and re-broadcast to acclaim in 2010. The research also resulted in her award-winning first book Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay (UQP 1997-98, 631pp) which was short listed for a number of literary awards and won the 1998 NSW Premier's Award for Australian History.

Whitehead’s second book, Bluestocking in Patagonia: Mary Gilmore's quest for love and utopia at the world's end, was written after she travelled to Argentina and Patagonia in 2002. This work was shortlisted for the 2005 Australian Magarey Biography Medal.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

This collection contains Anne Whitehead's research and writing on the Australian settlers and settlement in Paraguay and Patagonia during the 1890s and the early 20th Century and on the 1890s Barcaldine Shearers' Strikes.

SERIES 1
Anne Whitehead literary papers, sound recordings and transcripts relating to the book Paradise Mislaid

SERIES 2
Anne Whitehead literary and research papers relating to the book Bluestocking in Patagonia

SERIES 3
Anne Whitehead literary papers and correspondence relating to screenplay The Promised Land

SERIES 4
Anne Whitehead papers, correspondence and sound recordings relating to the production and broadcast of ABC radio series Paradise Lost

SERIES 5
Anne Whitehead literary and research papers relating to her doctoral thesis Women of the Workingman's Paradise

SERIES 6
Anne Whitehead further literary papers relating to Paraguay and Patagonia

SERIES 7
Anne Whitehead personal travel diaries relating to Paraguay, Buenos Aires and Patagonia

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