War on disease a history of the Lister Institute
Book review of War on Disease by Harriette Chick, Margaret Hume and Marjorie Macfarlane. Traces the Lister Institute's 75 year history from 1889 tea party origins to modern immunology work and Nobel linked studies. Notes dangers of early research, animal testing licensing, and key figures like Charles Martin and Lord Iveagh amid global plague and vaccine advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Lister Institute
Harriette Chick
Margaret Hume
Marjorie Macfarlane
Andre Deutsch
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
London
Lister
Charles Martin
Melbourne University
India
Plague Commission
India Office
Betwen
J. S. Haldane
Haldane
Lister Science
Harden
Morgan
Pasteur Institute
Paris
France
Waltzing Matilda as Australia’s rough national anthem
The piece argues Australia already has a national anthem in Waltzing Matilda, not for its origins but for its deep resonance with national character. It critiques H Pearce’s origin-focused study and highlights the song’s bushland mythic value and popularity across decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Pearce
Hawthorn Press
Australia
Mr Pearce
A bushman of action and the hollow core of belief
The passage paints a rugged Australian figure defined by deeds over thoughts. It links his pragmatism to a legacy of colonial authority, noting his world remains run by squatters, industrialists, and an entrenched elite. It ends by comparing past governance to a modern Geelong Grammar influenced establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Home Secretary
Geelong Grammar
Banjo Paterson
Australia
Gallipoli
Vietnam
America
Waltzing Matilda and Australian Fate in Verse and Legend
A reflective piece argues that Australian identity hinges on resignation to defeat and honour, tracing echoes from Burke and Ned Kelly to the Anzacs and the swagman. It links The Origins of Waltzing Matilda to contested origins, flagging hearsay, and critiques other reconstruction theories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Cook
Phillip
Ned Kelly
Robert O'Hara Burke
The
Anzacs
Billabong
Burke
Lalor
Australian Labor Party
NRMA
John Gorton
Kelly
Oscar Mendelsohn
John Manifold
Roger Cowell
Sydney May
Hope Against Hope A Mandelstam Memoir Review
Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of Osip Mandelstam, translated by Max Hayward, is hailed as a masterful Russian prose piece. The review covers Mandelstam’s exile, persecution under Stalin, and the couple’s enduring resilience, noting Brown’s intro and the book’s humane defense of literary opposition to tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Max Hayward
Collins
Clarence Brown
Osip Mandelstam
Russia
Anna Akhmatova
Nikolai Gumilev
Boris Pasternak
Nadezhda
Stalin
Siberian
Max Howard
St Anthony's
Oxford
Pasternak
Paustovsky
Mandelstam
Brown
Moscow
New York
A Study in Edwardian Transition by Emile Delavenay
A concise critique of Emile Delavenay s Edwardian transition study linking Carpenter and Lawrence. It notes the open air naturalism creed and intermediate sex concept, questions Delavenay s method, and suggests the work highlights second order thinkers and shifts in socialist thought around World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Lawrence
Edward Carpenter
Emile Delavenay
Heinemann
Encounter
Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey
Goronwy Rees
Rees
Roy Harrod
Lord Keynes
Keynes
Strachey
Oxbridge
Carpenter
Derbyshire
Havelock Ellis
Berkin
Hermione
Wilde
Reading
Lawrence
Birkin
Gerald
Delavenay
Rousseau
Tom = Paine
Vladimir Nabokov
Andrew Field
Pain
Also Mentioned on This Page
Robert Koch
Koch
Joseph Lister
Institute For Preventive Medicine
Netum
Tom
Sherrington
Institute
Earl of Iveagh
Guinness Brewing Family
U.S.A
Reenece Allen Weinstein
Th College
Massachusetts
H. C. Coombs
Australian National University
USA — Crisis and Continuity
5 Greening
Br Hector
Uni
Maurice Dunlevy
Harrington Street
Playfair Street
the Rocks
Sydney
Cedric Emanuel
Angus & Robertson
Mr Emanuel
Paddington
Khrushchev
By Humphrey McQueen
Lady Chatterley
Colin Welch
Welch Lawrence
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