Exhibition on Cold War Games

Between 7 March and 4 June 2019, Royal Historical Society of Victoria is holding an exhibition on Cold War Games. ON display will be

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More Games within the Games

With a large number of espionage agents operating in Melbourne, organisers of subsequent Olympic Games were keen to discourage spy agencies interfering by encouraging

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Red Faces at the Opera

Before coming to Australia, the 87-member Chinese Classical Opera Company toured New Zealand and they were supposed to arrive in Melbourne on 19 November.

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Unsporting Behaviour

Governments behind the Iron Curtain were justifiably fearful of public protests, which could threaten their legitimacy. And if such protests go out of hand,

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Art as a tool in the Cold War

In the early stage of the Cold War, the State Department decided to exhibit American abstract art overseas. They argued that modernist paintings were

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