Dr Mimi Colligan This is Me

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1. 1. Impact Corporate Communications - Press Release for: Deal Corporation - Residential news

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   Published on: 7/13/2006   Last Visited: 11/23/2007

   The exhibition has been curated by well-known Melbourne historian Dr Mimi Colligan who will be launching the exhibition on Tuesday evening (11 07 06) at 6pm.
   
   Dr Colligan, who has written about Australian history and has published a book, Canvas Documentaries, which dealt partly with Cremorne Gardens. She describes the former "pleasure gardens" as the forerunner of today"s amusement parks.
   
   "In 1853 Cremorne Gardens was built on the edge of the Yarra and eventually had its own railway line, gas works, theatre, dancing, menagerie and live recreations of historic battles and natural events.
   
   "Cremorne Gardens was an important part of Melbourne entertainment and its major driving force, George Coppin, was a leading entrepreneur and politician of the time," she said.
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   Exhibition curator Mimi Colligan is a freelance research historian with interests in theatre history and biography. Her Ph.D Thesis was on panorama and waxwork shows in Australia. She has worked as a Research Assistant in the Departments of English and History at Monash University (1974-1982) and as Victorian researcher for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, (1974-1987) to which she is also a contributor.
   
   She was Senior Research Officer with the Australia Post Philatelic Research and Design Unit. In 2002 Mimi published Canvas Documentaries a history of panoramic entertainments in 19th century Australia and New Zealand. She is an Honorary Research Associate with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University and a member of the Victorian Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Recently the she was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria

2. 2. Research Associates, NCAS, Arts, Monash University

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   Published on: 1/30/2005   Last Visited: 9/9/2006

   Dr Mimi Colligan
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   Dr Mimi Colligan
   
   Mimi Colligan is currently working on a biography of two nineteenth century theatre personalities, Mr & Mrs GBW Lewis. Her research encompasses documentation at the Theatre Museum Archive and British Library in London. She is a Board member of the International Panorama Council. Mimi has curated an exhibition on the History of Cremorne Gardens 1853-1863 for a property developer. Recently, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

3. 3. Canvas Documentaries

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   Published on: 10/1/2002   Last Visited: 8/6/2007

   Mimi Colligan
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   Mimi Colligan 'describes, aided by wonderful and numerous illustrations in a handsome A4 landscape format, the various kinds of giant visual displays with appeared in Melbourne and elsewhere between the 1840s and the early twentieth century'. (Theatre Research International, vol 28/2, 2003)
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   Dr Mimi Colligan is an honorary research associate in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, National Centre for Australian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University. She writes on nineteenth-century popular culture, and is the only historian to have made a detailed study of Australasian panoramas.