John Lack

'Worst smelbourne': Melbourne's noxious trades

J Lack

Book Chapter  |  2020

1919 The Year Things Fell Apart?

Book  |  2019

Was 1919 the year when, to adapt Yeats’ words, ‘things fell apart and the centre could not hold’? The people of Europe had not wan..

Heartbreak House: ‘Eumana’, Hastings Road, Upper Hawthorn

John Lack

Book Chapter  |  2019

Introduction: 1919 The Year When things Fell Apart?

John Lack

Book Chapter  |  2019

After the worst war in history – ‘the war to end all wars’ – there were hopes for a lasting peace and a better world. 1919 was to ..

Turning the Screw: The 1916 Victorian Campaign for Conscription

John Lack

Journal article  |  2018  |  VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

Historians of the home front in the Great War agree that by mid-1916 Australia was bitterly divided over the issue of conscription..

'I feel it dreadful to be out of work': Tom Purcell and William Farrell and the Melbourne Labour Market 1875-1908

John Lack, Charles Fahey

Journal article  |  2016  |  VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

Footscray

J LACK, C Reichert

Book Chapter  |  2016

A conspectus of Footscray's industrial and social history 1848-1991, reflected in the cycle of construction, destruction, and repu..

Descent into Hell: The Fall of Singapore-Pudu and Changi-the Thai-Burma Railway

John Lack

Journal article  |  2016  |  AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

A universal collection of literature on the European war? State Library Victoria's Great War pamphlets

J LACK, S Kafkarisos, W Struve

Journal article  |  2016  |  The LaTrobe Journal

Despite the disruption of postal services consequent on the outbreak of war in 1914, the Trustees of the State Library of Victoria..

I feel it dreadful to be out of work: Tom Purcell and William Farrell and the Melbourne Labour Market 1875-1908

J Lack, C Fahey

Journal article  |  2016  |  Victorian Historical Journal

Thomas Purcell and William Farrell, two Irish-Catholic unskilled labourers, left diaries of their working ives in late nineteenth ..