Radical Newcastle
Published on 1. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-74223-259-1 (ISBN)
Description
Newcastle's most notorious riot lives on in the lyrics of Cold Chisel's 1980 song Star Hotel, grainy YouTube videos and Novocastrian mythology. But beneath thecompelling images of surging crowds, hurled beer cans and flaming police cars was a radical intent that has been all but forgotten ...
The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalised young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen alongside other moments of resistance, Newcastle-style, such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, the Rothbury miners' lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. Radical Newcastle brings together short essays from academics, local historians, journalists and present-day radicals to document the region's radical past.
The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalised young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen alongside other moments of resistance, Newcastle-style, such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, the Rothbury miners' lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. Radical Newcastle brings together short essays from academics, local historians, journalists and present-day radicals to document the region's radical past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
40 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74223-259-1 (9781742232591)
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Persons
James Bennett founded Radical Newcastle in 2010 and established the collective that has staged a number of public events to generate interest in the project and its objectives. He is a coeditor of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand. Nancy Cushing leads, with Erik Eklund and Julie McIntyre, the Newcastle Hunter Studies group which seeks to promote scholarly publishing on the history of the region. Erik Eklund is an award-winning historian whose work has appeared in major Australian journals and has covered a number of industrial and mining-focused regions across the country. He currently works at Federation University, a new institution with a specific focus on regional Australia.