ON THE WEB:
www.abc.net.au/calypso/history
A web version of the ABC–TV show Calypso Summer, about the 1960–62 West Indies tour.
www.caribbeancricket.com
‘The independent voice of West Indies cricket’
www.334notout.com/bodyline
The most comprehensive site dedicated to the Bodyline tour and Ashes history.
www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/homes
A list of Australian ‘Girls’ Homes’.
READ:
The novels of Henry James, who said, on what he thought was his deathbed, ‘So this is it at last, the distinguished thing!’
Imagining the Fifties: Hope and Its Discontents in Menzies’ Australia by John Murphy, UNSW Press, 2000
The annual Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack, and other Wisden cricketing publications
Endless Summer:140 Years of Australian Cricket in Wisden by Gideon Haigh, Hardie Grant, 2002
WATCH:
Bodyline: It’s Just Not Cricket The 1984 mini-series starring Gary Sweet as Don Bradman and Hugo Weaving as Douglas Jardine.
VISIT:
The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)
Yarra Park, Melbourne
Tours: phone (03) 9657 8864
The website www.mcg.org.au includes a seating map, tour details and history.