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Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts: A History

by Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
Garry Wotherspoon
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The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts: A History tells the intriguing history of one of Sydney's oldest institutions and its vital impact on colonial Sydney’s cultural, intellectual and economic life. Discover the fascinating people and events that form the SMSA’s real history including Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, George Reid and Billy Hughes, poets Henry Lawson and Henry Kendall, women’s rights activist Louisa Lawson and the Father of Federation, Sir Henry Parkes. Some of the more amusing stories however are about our less respectable members including A noted eccentric and sex reformer William Chidley who was removed from the library in a state of undress, and Thomas ‘Lemonade’ Ley, a NSW politician who murdered his romantic and political rivals. Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, 2014. The judges called the book “a surprisingly engaging microcosm of Sydney’s history from 1833 through the lens of the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts”.
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Publisher: Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

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  • ISBN: 9780980824247
  • File size: 16694 KB
  • Release date: September 28, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780980824247
  • File size: 16694 KB
  • Release date: September 28, 2015

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Education History Reference Nonfiction

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English

The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts: A History tells the intriguing history of one of Sydney's oldest institutions and its vital impact on colonial Sydney’s cultural, intellectual and economic life. Discover the fascinating people and events that form the SMSA’s real history including Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, George Reid and Billy Hughes, poets Henry Lawson and Henry Kendall, women’s rights activist Louisa Lawson and the Father of Federation, Sir Henry Parkes. Some of the more amusing stories however are about our less respectable members including A noted eccentric and sex reformer William Chidley who was removed from the library in a state of undress, and Thomas ‘Lemonade’ Ley, a NSW politician who murdered his romantic and political rivals. Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, 2014. The judges called the book “a surprisingly engaging microcosm of Sydney’s history from 1833 through the lens of the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts”.
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Education History Reference Nonfiction