Guide to the Papers of Professor Stuart Macintyre
MS 9389
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: | February 2000 |
| Last updated: | August 2003 |
Table of Contents
Collection Summary
Introduction
Scope and Content
Access
Copying and Publishing
Preferred Citation
Biographical Note
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 Correspondence, 1983-98
Series 2 Diaries, 1981-97
Series 3 Militant: the life and times of Paddy Troy, 1886-1994
Series 4 Ormond College centenary essays, 1964-1984
Series 5 Winners and losers: the pursuit of social justice in Australian history, 1980-89
Series 6 The labour experiment,1987-89
Series 7 Foundations of arbitration: the origins and effects of State compulsory arbitration, 1890-1914, 1966-89
Series 8 A colonial liberalism : the lost world of three Victorian visionaries,1986-92
Series 9 A history for a nation: Ernest Scott and the making of Australian history, 1895-1996
Series 10 The discovery of Australian history 1890-1939, 1991-95
Series 11 The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality, 1992-99
Series 12 Articles and lectures, 1977-92
Series 13 Reviews, 1980-90
Series 14 Reports on manuscripts and theses, 1984-95
Series 15 Subject Files, 1979-94
Series 16 Civics Expert Group and Civics Education Group, 1989-98 (CLOSED)
Series 17 Bicentennial ephemera, 1980-88
Series 18 Sports ephemera, 1982-98
Series 19 Miscellaneous, 1911-99
Series 20 The Oxford history of Australia, 1979-94
Series 21 Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee, 1999-2001
Box List
Folio box List
Collection Summary
| Creator: | Macintyre, Stuart, 1947- |
| Title: | Papers of Professor Stuart Macintyre |
| Date Range: | 1886-2001 |
| Collection Number: | MS 9389 |
| Extent: | 9.24 m. (66 boxes) + 1 folio box |
| Repository: | National Library of Australia |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The papers were donated to the Library by Professor Macintyre in 1999. An instalment of papers previously held by the Melbourne University Archives was added in May 2000 (series 19/31-45 and 20). Records of the Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee were added in August 2003.
The papers comprise general correspondence, diaries, reports on manuscripts and theses by others, subject files, sports ephemera, ephemera on the Australian Bicentennary and drafts of articles, lectures and reviews by Macintyre. There are also files relating to Macintyre's membership of the Civics Expert Group, the Civics Education Group and the Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee as well as publishers' correspondence, drafts, book reviews, publishing agreements and research material relating to his books Militant, Ormond College centenary essays, Winners and losers, The labour experiment, Foundations of arbitration, A colonial liberalism, A history for a nation, The discovery of Australian history 1890-1939, and The Reds.
Access
The collection is restricted until access determined. Series 16 closed for 30 years (until 1 Jan. 2029); series 15 folder 54 closed for 30 years (until 1 Jan. 2019).
Copying and Publishing
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissable 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Professor Stuart Macintyre, National Library of Australia, MS 9389, [series and/or folder number]'.
Biographical Note
Stuart Forbes Macintyre was born in Melbourne on 21 April 1947, the son of Forbes Macintyre and Alison May Stevens. He was educated at Scotch College (Melbourne) and the Universities of Melbourne (BA), Monash (MA) and Cambridge (PhD). He married Martha Adele Bruton on 1 August 1976 and has two daughters.
| Date | Event |
| 1977-78 | Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge |
| 1979 | Lecturer, School of Social Inquiry, Murdoch University |
| 1980-81 | Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
| 1982-83 | Research Fellow, Australian National University |
| 1984-87 | Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne |
| 1986 | Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Australian Studies |
| 1988-91 | Reader in History, University of Melbourne |
| 1987-96 | Member of Council, National Library of Australia |
| 1989-98 | Member of Council, State Library of Victoria |
| 1991- | Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne |
| 1994-96 | Chair, Civics Expert Group |
| 1997 | Redmond Barry Award, Australian Library and Information Association |
| 1997- | Member, Civics Education Group |
Publications
A proletarian science: Marxism in Britain, 1917-1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) [originated as a doctoral thesis, St John's College Cambridge]
Little Moscows: Communism and working-class militancy in inter-war Britain (London: Croom Helm, c1980)
Militant: the life and times of Paddy Troy (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Ormond College centenary essays edited by Stuart Macintyre (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1984)
Winners and losers: the pursuit of social justice in Australian history (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985)
The Oxford history of Australia. Volume 4, 1901-1942: the succeeding age (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986, 1993)
The labour experiment (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1989)
Foundations of arbitration: the origins and effects of State compulsory arbitration, 1890-1914 edited by Stuart Macintyre and Richard Mitchell (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Through white eyes edited by Susan Janson and Stuart Macintyre (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990)
A colonial liberalism: the lost world of three Victorian visionaries (Melbourne:, Oxford University Press, 1991)
A history for a nation: Ernest Scott and the making of Australian history (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1994)
The discovery of Australian history 1890-1939 edited by Stuart Macintyre and Julian Thomas (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995)
'And be one people': Alfred Deakin's Federal Story, with an introduction by Stuart Macintyre (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995)
The Oxford companion to Australian history edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)
The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality (St Leonards:, Allen & Unwin, 1999)
A concise history of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Published lectures
History, the university and the nation, Trevor Reese memorial lecture (London, Sir Robert Memzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1992 )
What happened to compassion?: the fourteenth Sambell Memorial Oration (Fitzroy: Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1995)
The necessity of history: inaugural history lecture for the History Council of NSW on 9 December 1996 (Sydney: History Council of NSW, 1997)
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 Correspondence, 1983-98
This series comprises a mix of professional and personal incoming correspondence including letters from fellow academics, postcards, birthday and Christmas cards, newspaper clippings, invitations, sports tickets and some sporting ephemera. The correspondence covers the years 1983 to 1998 and has been arranged chronologically.
Major correspondents include Mary Docherty, Geoffrey Bolton, John Sendy, Manning Clark, Geoffrey Serle, Ken Inglis, Frank Bongiorno, Warren Horton and Verity Burgmann.
Among the personal correspondence are a number of letters from Macintyre's wife Martha Macintyre, an anthropologist, written to Stuart and his daughters while carrying out fieldwork on the island of Tube Tube in Papua New Guinea. There are also letters to Macintyre from his daughters written while he or they have been overseas.
Series 2 Diaries, 1981-97
The diaries contain personal and professional appointments, occasional notes on events and personal spending. The diaries cover the period from 1981 to 1997.
Series 3 Militant: the life and times of Paddy Troy, 1886-1994
Biography of Paddy Troy, Western Australian labour leader, published by George Allen and Unwin in 1984. The files include correspondence with publishers and unions, comments on pre-publication drafts, drafts of speeches on Troy and Macintyre's biography, reviews of the book and research materials including photocopies of early documents. In addition, series 12 folder 19 contains a seminar paper by Macintyre on Paddy Troy.
Series 4 Ormond College centenary essays, 1964-1984
Ormond College was established by the Presbyterian Church within the University of Melbourne in 1881. Ormond College centenary essays was edited by Macintyre and published by Melbourne University Press in 1984. Contributors were Jim Davidson, Don Chambers, Geoffrey Serle, Sarah Steven, Davis McCaughey, Stuart Macintyre, Sam Ricketson and Ian Maddocks. The series includes correspondence with contributors and publishers, page proofs, drafts of chapters with editorial comments by Macintyre, photographs and negatives, articles, cuttings and other research materials.
Series 5 Winners and losers: the pursuit of social justice in Australian history, 1980-89
Winners and losers was published by Allen & Unwin in 1985. The research and most of the writing took place while Macintyre was a Research Fellow with the Social Justice Project at the Australian National University during 1982 and 1983.
The series includes a small quantity of publishers' correspondence and readers' reports, readings and drafts for chapters, reviews, launch speech by Gerry Hand, a publisher's agreement and general research files relating to the Social Justice Project and social justice in general. There are also seminar papers for the Social Justice Project (1982-1984) and drafts of Macintyre's paper and other material relating to the Social Justice in Australia seminar (1988) in which Macintyre revisits some of the themes of his 1985 book.
Series 6 The labour experiment,1987-89
The labour experiment critically examined the labour movement's performance and its program of change over the period 1901 to 1950. It was published by McPhee Gribble in 1989 as part of its Australian Economic and Social History series edited by Boris Schedvin.
The series contains correspondence with the publishers and editor (1987-89), a publishing agreement (1987), reviews, drafts, page proofs and a published copy of the book.
2 folders
Series 7 Foundations of arbitration: the origins and effects of State compulsory arbitration, 1890-1914, 1966-89
This publication was edited by Macintyre and Richard Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press in 1989. Contributors to the volumes were David Brereton, Gill Palmer, Diane Kirkby, Jim Kitay, Michael Quinlan, Mark Bray, Malcolm Rimmer, Ester Stern, David Plowman, Ray Markey, Colin Forster, Alice Coolican and Gail Reekie. The series includes correspondence with Oxford University Press and with contributors, drafts of Macintyre's contribution, edited proofs, research papers and copies of papers (often from conferences) sumitted for inclusion in the book.
Folder 1 Correspondence with Angela McWinney, Oxford University Press and with contributors to the book. Includes draft outlines of the structure of the book.1987-89
Folder 3 Drafts of Macintyre's chapter 'The politics of the establishment of arbitration' and Ray Markey's 'Trade unions, the Labor Party and the introduction of compulsory state arbitration in NSW and the Commonwealth 1890-1910'
Series 8 A colonial liberalism : the lost world of three Victorian visionaries,1986-92
A colonial liberalism: the lost world of three Victorian visionaries, published in 1991 by Oxford University Press, examines the lives and work of David Syme (1827-1908), Charles Pearson (1830-1894), and George Higinbotham (1826-1892). The series includes correspondence with Oxford University Press, draft of chapters, reviews, and material relating to the 1992 George Higinbotham Centenary Conference.
Series 9 A history for a nation: Ernest Scott and the making of Australian history, 1895-1996
Biography of Professor Ernest Scott, the first Professor of History at the University of Melbourne in 1914-36. Published by Melbourne University Press in 1994. This series includes a large quantity of research material including copies of articles by Ernest Scott and on Scott's work.
Folder 3 Draft material including copy of paper by Macintyre: 'Knowing and possessing: Ernest Scott's circumnavigation of Australian history', 1991
Folder 4 Notes made by Macintyre on New Zealand historians and copy of paper by Macintyre: 'History, the university and the nation'
Series 10 The discovery of Australian history 1890-1939, 1991-95
A collection of essays examining history as a professional discipline in Australia edited by Stuart Macintyre and Julian Thomas and published by Melbourne University Press in 1995. The book includes essays on the work of Ernest Scott, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Max Crawford and George Henderson. Contributors include: Brian Fletcher, Elizabeth Kwan, C.B. Schedvin, J.E. Carr, Susan Janson, Geoffrey Bolton, Deryck Schreuder, Susan Davies and Robert Dare.
This series consists of one large folder of material which has been divided into three folders, retaining the original order of material. The series includes correspondence with Melbourne University Press and various contributors between 1991 and 1995, some drafts of chapters, Macintyre's own notes and research material and material relating to 'The Dawn of History, Australian History: Profession and Discipline 1891-1939' conference in April 1993.
3 folders
Series 11 The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality, 1992-99
A comprehensive history of the Australian Communist Party from its origins to the Second World War, published by Allen and Unwin in 1999. This series contains a complete copy of a draft manuscript for the book provided by Allen and Unwin, with numerous corrections and comments by Macintyre and others.
Folder 1 Letter from Oxford University Press, dated June 1992, expressing an interest in publishing Macintyre's history of Australian communism
Series 12 Articles and lectures, 1977-92
This series comprises of drafts and offprints of articles and lectures written by Macintyre between 1977 and 1992. Folder contents include handwritten and typed drafts, research material and correspondence relating to the publication of an article or arrangements for presenting a lecture.
Folder 2 Correspondence and draft material relating to Macintyre's contribution to Essays on Communist Party history, 1979
Folder 4-5 'Class in volume four of Clark's History of Australia', published in Australia 1888 Bulletin, No. 3, 1979
Folder 6 'The 1930s depression in fiction', lecture given at Murdoch University, Western Australia, 1979
Folder 8-9 'The Marxist debate on culturalism', Culture History Seminar, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1980
Folder 11 'The creation of the Communist Party of Great Britain', article for a Soviet historical journal, 1980
Folder 12 'The professionalisation of Australian History', staff seminar given at Monash University, 1981
Folder 13 Talk on the British Labour Party, given at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 1981
Folder 15-16 'Equity in Australian History' chapter in Patrick Troy (ed) A just society?: essays on equity in Australia, (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1981)
Folder 18 'Labour, capital and arbitration 1890-1920', chapter for Brian Head's State and economy in Australia, 1982
Folder 19 'Paddy Troy: a working class biography', seminar paper for Economic History Research Seminars, Monash University, 1982
Folder 22 'The Vale of Leven and Geraldton' paper given at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, 1982
Folder 31 Notes and correspondence relating to talk given at the History of Sporting Traditions Conference, August 1983
Folder 32 'Australian responses to unemployment in the last depression', lecture given at Macquarie University, 1983
Folder 33 Draft material and correspondence relating to an entry on William Somerville for the Australian dictionary of biography, 1983-89
Folder 34 'Range of thesis types and different skills', talk given at the Varieties of History Conference, University of Melbourne, 1984
Folder 35 'The emergence of community based history', talk given to the Brunswick Community History Group, April 1984
Folder 38 'The historical societies', talk given to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, September 1984
Folder 39 Draft material for and copy of 'Reopening the land', published in the '5 ages of Victoria' series for The Age, November 1984
Folder 40 'Social justice' entry for Australians: an historical dictionary, a volume of Australia 1788-1988: a bicentennial history, 1984
Folder 43 'Old hat, trendy or..? The relevance of Marxism today', talk given to the Communist Party of Australia, April 1985
Folder 44 'Australians in their Edwardian World', Department of English staff and postgraduate seminar, Melbourne University, September 1986
Folder 45-46 Draft material and correspondence relating to an entry on John G. Latham for the Australian dictionary of biography, 1986
Folder 48 'Work in society: the weight of history', lecture given as part of University of Melbourne, Work in Society, Work in History lecture series, July 1986
Folder 49 'Can a general history embrace and inclusive curriculum?', paper given at the annual History Teachers Association of Victoria conference, and later published in AGORA, vol.21 (4) 1986
Folder 50 'Rusden, Turner and the lessons of the past', in Jeff Leeuwenburg (ed.), The writing of Victoria's history 1835-1985, Baillieu Library, Melbourne , 1986
Folder 51 'The short history of social democracy in Australia', in Don Rawson, ed., Blast, budge or bypass: towards a social democratic Australia, 1986
Folder 53 Talk given at launch of The fight goes on, by Ralph Gibson, Democratus League, Fitzroy, 1987
Folder 54 Correspondence relating to an entry on John Lawrence Rentoul for the Australian dictionary of biography, 1987
Folder 55 Talk on privatisation given to the Coburg Branch of the Australian Labor Party, October 1997
Folder 56 'The Labor movement' by S. Macintyre and V. Burgmann, published in A people's history of Australia since 1788, 1988
Folder 58 Address given at the History Teachers' Association of Victoria, HSC Australian history course development day, March 1987
Folder 59 'Prosperity for whom in the 1920s', lecture given at the History Teachers' Association of Victoria's mid year lecture series, June 1987
Folder 60 Correspondence with the New Zealand journal of industrial relations and material relating to the Labour History Symposium: The Arbitration System in New Zealand, June 1987
Folder 65 'Raymond Williams and history', talk given at the Raymond Williams Seminar, 1988 and later published in Southern review, July 1988
Folder 73 'A renewed citizenship', paper written for Australian Institute of Management 50th Anniversary publication Furious agreement, 1989-1991
Folder 74 Correspondence and draft material relating to an entry on John Lawrence Rentoul for the Australian dictionary of biography, 1989
Folder 75 Correspondence relating to writing piece for the AHA Bulletin on Australian historiography, November 1989
Folder 76 Copies of papers given at the Australian Fabian Society's conference, 'A Future for the Humanities', October 1990
Folder 80 'The history of trade unions in Australia,' paper given at Japan External Trade Organisation seminar, 1990
Folder 81-82 'Libraries, information management and cultural heritage', opening address given at the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) conference: The Heart of the Matter, September 1992
Series 13 Reviews, 1980-90
This series contains 106 folders of reviews written by Macintyre. The folders contain typed copies of the finished reviews, draft material and related correspondence. The reviews, mainly of history books were written for a wide range of publications including Labour history, The Age, Historical studies, Overland, and Australian book review.
Series 14 Reports on manuscripts and theses, 1984-95
This series comprises reports written by Macintyre on graduate and postgraduate theses and manuscripts. The folders are arranged alphabetically by the author or candidate. Generally folders contain correspondence, reports and occasionally a draft of the manuscript or thesis. Some folders also include rough notes made by Macintyre as part of the process of compiling the report. Also included in this series are a number of Australian Research Grant Scheme applications which Macintyre reviewed.
Series 15 Subject Files, 1979-94
This series consists of a collection of files arranged alphabetically by subject and reflects Macintyre's involvement in a wide variety of academic, national and local organisations, including the Australian Historical Association, the Brunswick Branch of the Australian Labor Party, and the Scottish History Society.
The files commonly contain correspondence, newsletters, and minutes of meetings or details of conferences. Much of the material is similar to that arranged chronologically in Macintyre's correspondence files (see series 1).
As Macintyre commonly uses the acronym version of an organisation's name or a similar abbreviation as a file title, most file titles have been expanded to assist readers.
Folder 1 Academy (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia). Material relating to the Australian-Asian perceptions project, 1993
Folder 11 ARGS (Australian Research Grants Scheme). , 1981-87
Includes correspondence, and grant applications by Macintyre
Folder 12 ARGS (Australian Research Grants Scheme)., 1987
Includes correspondence and assessments by Macintyre
Folder 13 ARC (Australian Research Council) Includes correspondence and material for assessors, 1988-89
Folder 22 Australian Studies VCE (Australian studies curriculum for Victorian Certificate of Education)
Folder 32 Dawkins ('Higher Education, a policy discussion paper', circulated by J.S. Dawkins, December 1987)
Folder 34-35 Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities) correspondence, 1989-91
Folder 36-38 Faculty Research Application, (University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, Faculty Research Development Scheme), , 1986-88
Folder 42 Friends of the State Library (Friends of the State Library of Victoria) correspondence, 1991
Folder 43 Higher education (material relating to the future of higher education in Australia),1988-91
Folder 44 FIT (Footscray Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities Cultural Studies Unit), 1988
Folder 54 National Library (National Library of Australia Council) correspondence, 1987-1988 (CLOSED)
Folder 56 Oxford University Press Australia, Editorial Board (minutes of meetings and correspondence), , 1989
Folder 69 Public History (material relating to the proposed establishment of a programme in Public History at University of Melbourne),, 1986
Folder 71 Republican Movement (newsletters and correspondence, Australian Republican Movement), 1992
Folder 72 Review of Institute (Review of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University), 1990
Series 16 Civics Expert Group and Civics Education Group, 1989-98 (CLOSED)
The Civics Expert Group (CEG) was established on 23 June 1994 by the Keating Government. Under its terms of reference, its function was to 'provide the Government with a strategic plan for a non-partisan programme of public education and information on the Australian system of government, the Australian Constitution, Australian citizenship and other civic issues'. Macintyre was Chair of the Civics Experts Group in 1994-96. Other members were Dr Ken Boston and Susan Pascoe. Over a five month period in 1994, the CEG consulted in every state and territory and received 180 submissions. In its final report, 'Whereas the people'..civics and citizenship education (1994), it made proposals for civics education in the various education sectors and the community generally. As a result of the report, the Government funded several initiatives including a program of civics and citizenship education in schools and a Community Civics Campaign.
The Civics Education Group was established in May 1997 by the Howard Government to provide continuing advice to the Government on the civics and citizenship program Discovering Democracy. Membership of the Group is Dr J. Hirst (Chair), Dr K. Boston, Professor G. Craven, Professor S. Macintyre and Ms S. Pascoe.
The series comprises correspondence, meeting papers, submissions, reports, papers relating to the Community Civics Campaign and the Civics and Citizenship Education Program, newspaper cuttings and articles on citizenship and civics, and curriculum materials.
Material in this series from the original instalment was received in a state of great disorder with most papers unfiled and material from both bodies intermingled. The current order has been imposed by Library staff. Some publications already held by the Library were discarded from this series.
Papers from the May 2000 addition date primarily from 1994 and include papers on the establishment of the Civics Expert Group, meeting papers, drafts, submissions, correspondence, publications and other papers.
Folder 16 Civics and Citizenship Education Forum, June 1995
Also includes papers relating to the CEG meeting (March 1995), the Government response to the report of the CEG and the Civics and Citizenship Community Education Steering Group, 1995
Folder 17 Overheads and other materials for talks on the Civics and Citizenship Education Report, 1995
Folder 18 Australian Research Council grant applications for projects relating to citizenship and other papers, 1995-96
Folder 31-35 Curriculum materials including teacher reference book drafts, drafts of units and Curriculum Corporation articles on citizenship and civics, 1996-98
Folder 59 Prime Minister's statement and letter of thanks from P.J. Keating following receipt of report, 1994
Series 17 Bicentennial ephemera, 1980-88
Ephemera material relating to the 1988 celebrations of Australia's Bicentennary. The series includes draft and research material for a number of bicentennial articles written by Macintyre, copies of academic journals relating to the bicentennial, newspaper clippings and official bicentennial publications and memorabilia, including stamps, merchandise catalogues and bulletins.
Some publications already held by the Library and not specifically related to the bicentennial were discarded from this series.
Folder 4 Australia 1938: a Bicentennial history bulletin, Nos. 2-4, and Oral History Handbook,1980-81
Folder 6 Terra Australis to Australia, The Australian Academy of the Humanities, conference bulletins, 1986
Series 18 Sports ephemera, 1982-98
Sports ephemera collected by Macintyre including newspaper cuttings, posters, tickets, programs, stickers, annual reports and other ephemera relating to the Australian Football League (particularly Hawthorn Football Club), the Melbourne Cricket Ground and marathon events in Melbourne. Issues of the Football record and Hawk talk from this series were integrated with the Library's serials collection or discarded.
Series 19 Miscellaneous, 1911-99
Papers relating to other writing projects, and general interests. Includes issues of the newspaper of the Old Scotch Collegians' Association; meeting papers of the Australian Labor Party Economics Policy Committee; files on projects relating to post war reconstruction history; a file on Macintyre's contribution to the American Historical Association's bibliography Guide to historical literature, and files relating to the Constitutional Centenary Conference (1991) and the Constitutional Centenary Foundation.
Folders 31-45 were added in 2000 and folder 46 in 2003.
Folder 3-8 Files on history and historiography, 1982-88
Includes a draft of 'The writing of history',and drafts, proofs, reviews anmd other papers relating to Making history (McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1985), for which Macintyre wrote the introduction
Folder 12-17 Files on post war reconstruction , 1986-90
including files on a proposed interview project 'Australia since the war' with Don Watson (1989-90), files on Macintyre's involvement in Geoffrey Bolton's The Oxford history of Australia Volume 5, 1942-1988: the middle way (1986-89) [see also series 20]; and articles and papers on post-war reconstruction, some for the Post War Seminar in Canberra, 1981
Folder 20 Cuttings and publicity schedule relating to Manning Clark's History of Australia, 1993 (Folio)
Folder 34-39 Constitutional Centenary Foundation papers, 1992-95
including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, annual reports, discussion papers
Folder 41 Miscellaneous papers relating to the Constitution, citizenship and Aboriginal people, 1990-93
Series 20 The Oxford history of Australia, 1979-94
Macintyre was involved in the five volume Oxford history of Australia as the author of The Oxford history of Australia. Volume 4, 1901-1942: the succeeding age (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986, 1993) and as an editor of manuscripts for other volumes, particularly volume 5. The proposed volume 1 on Aboriginal Australia was never published.
The series contains correspondence and other papers relating to the production of volumes 1-5 and material relating to Macintyre's work on volume 4 including drafts of chapters 4-14, reviews, publicity material and research files.
See also series 19/12-17.
Series 21 Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee, 1999-2001
The series comprises papers collected by Macintyre as a member of the Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee. The papers include agenda papers for Committee meetings held between April 2000 and August 2002, records of the outcomes of meetings, reports of the Committee, an information kit 'Celebrating 100 years of nationhood', correspondence and other papers.
Folder 15 Australia Day 2002. Assumption of responsibility by Centenary of Federation Victoria. Operation plan, June 2001
Folder 16 'Celebrating 100 years of nationhood'. Centenary of Federation Victoria member's briefing, March 2000
Includes a video.
Folder 17 'Celebrating 100 years of nationhood'. Information kit, 2000
Includes a video and badge of Centenary of Federation logo.
Box List
| Box | Series | Folder/Piece |
| 1 | 1 | 1-9 |
| 2 | 1 | 10-16 |
| 3 | 1 | 17-23 |
| 4 | 1 | 24-30 |
| 5 | 1 | 31-37 |
| 6 | 1 | 38-44 |
| 7 | 1 | 45-52 |
| 8 | 1 | 53-59 |
| 9 | 1 | 60-65 |
| 10 | 1 | 66-68 |
| 11 | 1 | 69-71 |
| 12 | 2 | 1-3 |
| 13 | 2 | 4-5 |
| 14 | 3 | 1-15 |
| 15 | 3 | 16-22 |
| 15 | 4 | 1-5 |
| 16 | 4 | 6-16 |
| 16 | 5 | 1-7 |
| 17 | 5 | 8-16 |
| 18 | 5 | 17-27 |
| 19 | 5 | 28-36 |
| 20 | 5 | 37-39 |
| 20 | 6 | 1-2 |
| 20 | 7 | 1-3 |
| 21 | 7 | 4-10 |
| 22 | 7 | 11-12 |
| 22 | 8 | 1-6 |
| 23 | 8 | 7-15 |
| 24 | 8 | 16-18 |
| 24 | 9 | 1-6 |
| 25 | 9 | 7-10 |
| 25 | 10 | 1-3 |
| 25 | 11 | 1-2 |
| 26 | 11 | 3-11 |
| 27 | 12 | 1-26 |
| 28 | 12 | 27-48 |
| 29 | 12 | 49-76 |
| 30 | 12 | 77-94 |
| 31 | 13 | 1-61 |
| 32 | 13 | 62-106 |
| 33 | 14 | 1-44 |
| 34 | 14 | 45-72 |
| 35 | 14 | 73-90 |
| 35 | 15 | 1-12 |
| 36 | 15 | 13-33 |
| 37 | 15 | 34-57 |
| 38 | 15 | 58-67 |
| 39 | 15 | 68-88 |
| 40 | 16 | 1-6 |
| 41 | 16 | 7-13 |
| 42 | 16 | 14-18 |
| 43 | 16 | 19-25 |
| 44 | 16 | 26-32 |
| 45 | 16 | 33-38 |
| 46 | 17 | 1-7 |
| 47 | 17 | 8-10 |
| 48 | 18 | 1-3 |
| 49 | 18 | 4-5 |
| 49 | 19 | 1-5 |
| 50 | 19 | 6-12 |
| 51 | 19 | 13-19 |
| 52 | 19 | 21-28 |
| 53 | 19 | 29-30 |
| 54 | 16 | 39-46 |
| 55 | 16 | 47-54 |
| 56 | 16 | 55-66 |
| 57 | 16 | 67-72 |
| 58 | 16 | 73-77 |
| 59 | 19 | 31-35 |
| 60 | 19 | 36-43 |
| 61 | 19 | 44-46 |
| 61 | 20 | 1-7 |
| 62 | 20 | 8-17 |
| 63 | 20 | 18-30 |
| 64 | 21 | 1-11 |
| 65 | 21 | 12-17 |
| 66 | 21 | 18-19 |
Folio box List
| Box | Series | Folder/Piece |
| 1 | 17 | 11-12 |
| 1 | 19 | 20 |