Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere Roy Hay ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK, 2019. Hardback, A5, 315 pages, illustrated. RRP £64.99. Australia $99.00....
SESA is still in business Sports & Editorial Services Australia is saddened that Dennis Jones had to put his distribution company Dennis Jones & Associates into administration recently. SESA benefitted considerably from Dennis and his loyal and proactive...
On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international trophy celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victory over lunch at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the invitation of the SCG Trust. (Click on...
50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam By Roy Hay In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by Harold Holt, agreed it would be a good idea if the national football team took part in a tournament in Vietnam to boost morale in some of...
Puskas statue unveiled in Melbourne Roy Hay A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was unveiled in Melbourne today as close as could be to Olympic Park where the last game of his Australian coaching...
Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin, 1846?–1889: A Man between Two Worlds Roy Hay In 2017, as we struggle as a society to find ways of understanding and accepting people who do not apparently conform to a particularly narrow view of citizenship in Australia, the story of one man...
Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967–1972, A Missing Part of the National Narrative Roy Hay Much has been written about sport in Australia. Much more has been written about war. There is also a small literature about sport and war and hectares of newsprint...
Football on Corio Oval in 1913, the Geelong Football Club's home ground from 1878 until the Second World War. Source: John Reid, Geelong: A Photographic Album of Historic Photographs in Sepia, 1838–1988, Joval Commercial Productions, Bacchus Marsh, 1988, p. 95....
Phil Mosely Soccer in New South Wales, 1880–1980 has just been published by Sports and Editorial Services Australia and Vulgar Press, Bannockburn and Carlton, Victoria. It is available from all good booksellers via Dennis Jones and Associates at a recommended retail...
Looking for the ideal Christmas present? If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then Roy Hay & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2014 is the best buy. With 310 pages and illustrations...
Melbourne Heart 0 Adelaide United 2 Roy Hay After an exciting start in which the home team could have scored several goals, Melbourne Heart eventually succumbed to a workmanlike Adelaide United, losing by two goals to nil at AAMI Park on Labour Day. With the defeat...
Annie Wakeford (extreme left) and Norma May Mawson (second left) welcome the Victorian Minister for Housing, Wendy Lovell (cemtre) to the new Miller homes in Highton, 13 July 2011. Alexander Miller: The unknown philanthropist and his legacy Dr Jennifer Kloester, Dr Al...
The Edinburgh Conspiracy is a political thriller set in the near future. Scotland is independent and Edinburgh has been chosen as the site of a major international congress of heads of state. It will finalize a settlement of the Israel–Palestine dispute. A group of...
The Global Game: A History of football in Australia. Exhibition Catalogue. Roy Hay, with an introduction by Ruth Rentschler, Paul Turner and Pamm Kellett. This is the catalogue to accompany the exhibition of photographs of the history of football (soccer) in...
Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and Frances Hay, Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman The biography of Catherine Wells, born in 1914, who left school in Easter Ross at 14, worked in domestic service and brought up a family in wartime when her...
Andrew Fisher was Prime Minister of Australia three times—1908–09, 1910–13 and 1914–15. His second government controlled both Houses of Parliament and it was, until the 1940s, Australia’s most reformist administration. In these three years, 113 Acts were placed on the...
Déjà vu, all over again By Roy Hay The Australian Society for Sports History has made significant contributions to sports history over the years, but it probably caused its greatest stir in the wider world in 1991 when the Bulletin carried an article by Professor Ling...
Talk to U3A tutors 23 November 2005 by Roy Hay, Sports and Editorial Services Australia and Deakin University. I am extremely privileged to be here to talk to you tonight. That is not just a conventional sentiment, I assure you. For it is very humbling to be in the...