In 2005 Michele Matthews interviewed current and former residents of Bendigo for her thesis on the 1930s Depression as part of her PhD Research, with the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts, History Department. Michele interviewed fifteen members of prominent Bendigonian families. The thesis was titled: "How Depressing?: The impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District 1925-1935". The Michele Matthews Collection contains fourteen audio cassette tape recordings and one written transcript. The tapes are each approximately one hour and 45 minutes duration. The questions presented to the interviewees explore everyday experiences they would have lived through at the time of the Depression. The questions covered sixteen relevant subjects: • Introduction and housing • Social activities, swimming, cinemas, school and games played with friends • Organizations such as the RSL, Relief Committees etc. and any effect they had on family life • The life of the single woman • Unemployment and Employment • Government Assistance • Charities Aid • Self-help • People Power, e.g. boycotts or protests • Politics • Trouble or crime • Family Health, Medical and Diet • Education • General memories of, and hardships encountered, during the DepressionAudio tape interview with Frank Crawford. Crawford's Shoe Shop business was on the corner of Bull and Hargreaves Streets, opposite the Bendigo Town Hall. Two audio tapes with length of one hour and 45 minutes, with eleven pages of handwritten notes of the interview. Frank was born in 1915, his parents were a bricklayer and a dressmaker. He attended St Liborius Catholic Primary School in Eaglehawk from 1920 to 1928. The tape has been converted to a sound file. The 90 minute interview can be listened to; and the notes viewed at the Bendigo Historical Society. By appointment only.history, bendigo, michele matthews collection, frank crawford bendigo, crawford's shoe shop bendigo, 1930s depression tapes

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The documents relate to changes within teacher training institution. At Ballarat, this involved the move of the Ballarat Teachers' College to the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (Mount Helen Campus) and the rename of the campus to Ballarat College of Advanced Education. Later this became a campus of Federation University Australia.Correspondence between the Hon. L.H.S. Thompson, M.L.A. (Minister of Education) and Phil G. Law, Vice-President of the Victoria Institute of Colleges. Jack Barker, Principal of the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, was CCed into the correspondence.victoria institute of colleges, mount helen campus, e.j. barker, jack barker, phillip law, lindsay thompson, ballarat institite of advanced education, ballarat college of advanced education, r.w. birrell, e. szomanski, a. buchanan, fourth university

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