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Coral Thomas Fellowship

Cereal Rust Laboratory

Karskens, Grace

Legge, John Williamson (Jack)

Steele, Jeremy

Taylor, Rebe

Young, Sally

Darug women Rhiannon Wright, Leanne Watson and Erin Wilkins with Rene Breuls visiting a rockshelter in the Maroota area September 2019

Madsen Building at the University of Sydney when it was occupied by CSIRO 1940

Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project team members (l to r) Leanne Watson, Grace Karskens, Erin Wilkins and Jasmine Seymour above Dyarubbin at Sackville June 2018

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Academic research

Coral Thomas Fellowship

Biennial research fellowship offered by the State Library of New South Wales. It was established in 2015 by Rob Thomas and his family at the end of his tenure as President of the Library Council in honour of his mother, Coral Kirkwood Thomas née Patrick (1920-1996). It is the Library's most significant fellowship.

Coral Thomas was born in Scotland 1920. She was an intellectual woman, awarded the Thow Scholarship in Civil, Constitutional and Public Law, and the Muirhead Prize for Law whilst attending Edinburgh University. Her academic career was curtailed during the War and in 1942 she joined the Foreign Office where she was employed in code and cipher work. During a posting to the British Embassy in Washington she met Fred Thomas, Group Captain of the RAAF Mission. They were married in May 1944 and moved to Melbourne where they raised their family and took an active part in the city's cultural life.

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Cereal Rust Laboratory

Research laboratory involved in cereal rust research through disease control by resistance breeding.

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Karskens, Grace

Author and historian whose books include the 'The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney' and 'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney' and 'People of the River'.

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Legge, John Williamson (Jack)

Biochemist who carried out physiological research in the field of chemical warfare, including mustard gas. He and his wife were active members of the Communist Party.

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Steele, Jeremy

Non-Indigenous researcher who completed his Master’s thesis ‘The Aboriginal Language of Sydney’ at Macquarie University in 2005.

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Taylor, Rebe

Historian and writer whose books include 'Unearthed: The Tasmanian Aborigines of Kangaroo Island ' and 'Into the Heart of Tasmania'. She was the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales for her project 'The Wedge Collection: moments of encounter on the Tasmanian and Victorian frontiers'.

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Young, Sally

Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and author of 'Paper Emperors: the rise of Australia’s newspaper empires'. The 2020 Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of NSW.

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