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The Campbell Howard Collection The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript held in the Dixson Library at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales is a unique set of research materials relating primarily to the period 1920-1955. The Collection contains some 300 plays in manuscript or typescript as well as published plays, theatre programmes, correspondence and research files. The original Collection was put together by Campbell Howard in the early 1950’s and 1960’s, and also contains manuscripts of plays placed in the Collection since that time, many of these acquired by Winifred Leask. It includes playscripts by the following significant authors: Ron Blair, Mona Brand, Dymphna Cusack, Dulcie Deamer, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Louis Esson, Sumner Locke Elliott, Oriel Gray, Ray Mathew, Gwen Meredith, Vance Palmer, Ruth Park, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Betty Roland, Steele Rudd, Alan Seymour, Steven J. Spears, Ric Throssell, Patrick White, Eleanor Witcomb and many others. Digitised plays will include out-of copyright works and plays where copyright clearance has been obtained. Plays will be released under a Creative Commons Licence where possible. Aim of the data Collection To analyse and make available a preliminary set of unpublished Australian plays and materials that relate to the plays such as correspondence, theatre programmes and playbills. What partnerships are enabled by the Collection? Partnerships with AustLit, the University of Queensland, the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archives and the National Archives are enabled by the University of New England Campbell Howard Collection. Discovering and Preserving Australian Plays The Campbell Howard Collection, University of New England Digital Futures in the Arts How is research enhanced at your institution by the Collection? Research in Australian Theatre and Literary Studies is enhanced at UNE by the online availability of the Collection for online study of the first set of plays and associated data. Scholars, curators and librarians are transforming the Collection through the digital preservation, design of copyright protocols and digital archive tools that enhance and expose the Collection. How do you hope to use the Collection to drive the institutional agenda? This Collection will drive our digital humanities and creative arts agenda at UNE in relation to our prized Special Collections of plays and other performing arts materials. This project enabled UNE to establish procedures and build expertise to progress the digitisation of unique collections in the Dixson Library and the UNE and Regional Archives, and make these openly accessible where possible. Who benefits from this Collection being created and made available? ▪ Scholars in Australian Literature, Theatre, Drama and History benefit from this Collection begin made available. ▪ Practitioners in the Performing Arts benefit. ▪ Playwrights benefit as their work is exposed and available to readers. What is the intended impact of the Collection both nationally and globally? The impact of the Collection nationally and globally is that it exposes the plays online for the first time so that a broad group of users all over the world can access the first set of plays and associated data. This project allows the first set of digitised plays from The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript to be discovered in an open data Collection. Scholars and practitioners can download the first set of plays. What broad research questions will be answered by the data being open and available? ▪ How do these plays illuminate this rich period of Australian literary history? ▪ Who was writing and producing Australian plays? ▪ What do the plays tell us about: ▪ Indigenous affairs between 1920 and 1955 ▪ War and the Depression ▪ National Politics ▪ Class ▪ The emerging medium of radio ▪ British theatre and its influences ▪ Why were some of the plays in the Collection never published? ▪ How does the published version of a play vary from its original manuscript? ▪ Which theatres produced the plays? ▪ Did the plays win competitions? ▪ Who performed in the plays? ©University of New England 2015. Released under CC BY 4.0 Kerry Kilner, AustLit [email protected] Anne Pender, University of New England [email protected] Johan Boshoff, Intersect and University of New England jboshoff@une.edu.au Barbara Paton, University of New England [email protected] UNE Theatre Studies students rehearse a play by Katharine Susannah Prichard.
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The Campbell Howard CollectionThe Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript held in the Dixson Library at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales is a unique set of research materials relating primarily to the period 1920-1955.
The Collection contains some 300 plays in manuscript or typescript as well as published plays, theatre programmes, correspondence and research files. The original Collection was put together by Campbell Howard in the early 1950’s and 1960’s, and also contains manuscripts of plays placed in the Collection since that time, many of these acquired by Winifred Leask.
It includes playscripts by the following significant authors:
Ron Blair, Mona Brand, Dymphna Cusack, Dulcie Deamer, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Louis Esson, Sumner Locke Elliott, Oriel Gray, Ray Mathew, Gwen Meredith, Vance Palmer, Ruth Park, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Betty Roland, Steele Rudd, Alan Seymour, Steven J. Spears, Ric Throssell, Patrick White, Eleanor Witcomb and many others.
Digitised plays will include out-of copyright works and plays where copyright clearance has been obtained. Plays will be released under a Creative Commons Licence where possible.
Aim of the data CollectionTo analyse and make available a preliminary set of unpublished Australian plays and materials that relate to the plays such as correspondence, theatre programmes and playbills.
What partnerships are enabled by the Collection?Partnerships with AustLit, the University of Queensland, the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archives and the National Archives are enabled by the University of New England Campbell Howard Collection.
Discovering and Preserving Australian PlaysThe Campbell Howard Collection, University of New England
Digital Futures in the Arts
How is research enhanced at your institution by the Collection?Research in Australian Theatre and Literary Studies is enhanced at UNE by the online availability of the Collection for online study of the first set of plays and associated data.
Scholars, curators and librarians are transforming the Collection through the digital preservation, design of copyright protocols and digital archive tools that enhance and expose the Collection.
How do you hope to use the Collection to drive the institutional agenda?This Collection will drive our digital humanities and creative arts agenda at UNE in relation to our prized Special Collections of plays and other performing arts materials.
This project enabled UNE to establish procedures and build expertise to progress the digitisation of unique collections in the Dixson Library and the UNE and Regional Archives, and make these openly accessible where possible.
Who benefits from this Collection being created and made available?▪ Scholars in Australian Literature, Theatre,
Drama and History benefit from this Collection begin made available.
▪ Practitioners in the Performing Arts benefit.
▪ Playwrights benefit as their work is exposed and available to readers.
What is the intended impact of the Collection both nationally and globally?The impact of the Collection nationally and globally is that it exposes the plays online for the first time so that a broad group of users all over the world can access the first set of plays and associated data.
This project allows the first set of digitised plays from The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript to be discovered in an open data Collection.
Scholars and practitioners can download the first set of plays.
What broad research questions will be answered by the data being open and available?▪ How do these plays illuminate this rich
period of Australian literary history?
▪ Who was writing and producing Australian plays?
▪ What do the plays tell us about:
▪ Indigenous affairs between 1920 and 1955
▪ War and the Depression
▪ National Politics
▪ Class
▪ The emerging medium of radio
▪ British theatre and its influences
▪ Why were some of the plays in the Collection never published?
▪ How does the published version of a play vary from its original manuscript?
▪ Which theatres produced the plays?
▪ Did the plays win competitions?
▪ Who performed in the plays?
©University of New England 2015. Released under CC BY 4.0
Kerry Kilner, [email protected]
Anne Pender, University of New England [email protected]
Johan Boshoff, Intersect and University of New [email protected]
Barbara Paton, University of New [email protected]
UNE Theatre Studies students rehearse a play by Katharine Susannah Prichard.
