My thanks to Kate Lilley, Bruce Gardiner, Vicki Laing, Gloria Carlos at the Yass and District Historical Society Museum, Jen Reed, Matt Hare, Jeremy M. Davies, Paul Filev, Aaron Kerner, Jeff Higgins, Mikhail Iliatov, John O’Brien, and Nathaniel Davis, as well as the team at Text. I would also like to thank Stephen Groenewegen and Graham Shirley at the National Film and Sound Archive, Phil Ward at the City of Sydney Library, Janice van de Velde at the State Library of Victoria, Aviva Wolff at the Sydney Jewish Museum, and staff members at the Caroline Simpson Library and the Kings Cross branch of the City of Sydney Library.
I am grateful for the award of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in 2010.
I have never met or heard a description of Perry Quinton. The names of the residents of Kingsclere in 1928 are like-wise all that is reflected of them in this book. An earlier version was submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 2011, for which it received government funding; I would like to express my gratitude to the other members of the English department who saw it through.