This piece on NSW Labor Premier Jack Lang was inspired by a draft article written by Miss M.E. (Joyce) Cocks, in 1932. I was researching Joyce’s life at Sydney’s Mitchell Library when I came across a diatribe she had written against Lang; ‘The present Government deliberately refuse
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On Christmas Eve 1925, Evelyn Hobson told her parents and siblings that she was going on holiday for a few days to Manly, a favourite destination for Sydneysiders. Christmas Eve seems an odd time to choose, but Evelyn was 27 years old and gainfully employed as a
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As a young woman, Joyce Cocks became an attendant (and later a buyer) at Sydney’s historic Mitchell Library. AN ARMED ROBBER INTRUDES In 1923 an armed man entered the building on Macquarie Street and removed three valuable paintings from a wall on the library’s third
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