If the walls could speak
Subtitle: a social history of the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria
By: Pam Baragwanath.
Publisher: Mechanics Institute Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Windsor, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Mechanics' institutes -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 346-349.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: About the project; title: Acknowledgements; title: What IS a Mechanics' Institute?; title: Foreword; title: The Hon. Bob Cameron MP,; title: Minister for Local Government, Department of Infrastructure, Victoria; title: Introduction; title: John Murphy, Historian; title: Essays; title: Ex unitate vires: Mechanics' Institutes and the federal ideal; title: Prof. Philip C. Candy, University of Ballarat; title: The Mechanics' Institute movement in Victoria; title: Pam Baragwanath, Historian; title: Mechanics' Institutes on Crown land reserves; title: Janette Hodgson, Historic Places Section,; title: Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria; title: Schools of Design at the Mechanics' Institutes; title: Richard Myers, Historian; title: Temples of learning; title: Peter Lovell, Conservation Architect, Allom, Lovell and Associates; title: Managed for their future; title: Ivar Nelsen, Manager, Historic Places Section,; title: Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria; title: Entries: Alphabetical record of Mechanics' Institutes in Victoria; title: First Mechanics' Institutes; title: Lists; title: Libraries established in Mechanics' Institutes; title: Adult education classes in Mechanics' Institutes; title: Mechanics' Institutes used as picture theatres; title: Mechanics' Institute heritage significance: Registrations and listings; title: Criteria for the Register fo the National Estate; title: Criteria for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register; title: Mechanics' Institutes architects; title: Mechanics' Institutes established in conjunction with town halls; title: Mechanics' Institutes used as polling places in Gippsland Division; title: Well-known people associated with Mechanics' Institutes; title: Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria in existence; title: Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria no longer in existence; title: Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria - undetermined status of existence; title: Mechanics' Institutes Reserves of Victoria no longer in existence; title: Pictorial alphabetical record only of other Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria.