Newman College: A History, 1918-2018
Authors: BrendaNiall, Josephine Dunin, Frances O'Neill
Publisher: Newman College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2018
ISBN: 9780646983004
Format: Hardback, 270 pages
Price: $70
Contesting Catholic Identity: The Foundation of Newman College, Melbourne, 1914-18
Author: Michael Francis
Publisher: Newman College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2018
ISBN: 9780646982014
Format: Paperback, 153 pages
Price $30
Brenda Niall is the doyenne of Australian biography. Her life of Archbishop Mannix won the National Biography Award in 2016. Many of her books are quarried from a cache of letters or capacious diaries, a lengthy process. But when Newman College at the University of Melbourne asked her to write their history in time for their centenary in 2018, she knew she couldn't dawdle. So she recruited her sister, Frances O'Neill, a social historian, and oral historian Josephine Dunin, to find the material from which to craft her story. Rightly, these three women appear on the book's title page as its authors.
Mannix has a big part in this story, chairing the college council throughout his long episcopate. He hoped that the college would open doors to the professions for Catholic lads (lasses came later); and he was successful in this. He didn't baulk at giving the college an Englishman's name and he withstood those...
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