Jackie Dickenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jackie Dickenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jackie |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickenson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKENSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0629-4682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Routledge Companion to the History of Advertising
The poor man’s overdraft’
Most histories of Australian cultural life pin the start of consumer credit's popularity to the 1950s and the heady days of the early long boom. This article reveals the longer history of consumer credit in Australia. Middle-class Australians have long made use of forms of credit provided by retailers such as monthly accounts to supplement their incomes, take advantage of special offers, deal with unexpected expenses, or indulge impulsive desires…
Living Advertisements’
In August 1900, a new type of charity event – the advertising poster ball – was introduced to Australia. The event brought together a range of pre-existing cultural forms to promote mass market brands, facilitated by a new, visual advertising culture. Over the next forty years, the poster ball was adopted by community groups, becoming a regular feature on the social and fundraising calendar. By harnessing people’s innate longing for creative expr…
Managing the Marketplace
Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 53(1), pp. 168–169
The Circle of Life Is Endless”
When “King Kong Rhino”—the monumental–sculpture by the Taiwanese artist Shih Li-Jen (1955–) left Venice for Bassano del Grappa in December 2018, it joined a distinguished line of rhinoceroses to have embarked on a European tour. This article examines the place of Shih’s rhinoceros sculptures in this “Endless Circle of Life,” beginning with the European journeys of two historical rhinoceroses, Ganda who arrived in Portugal in 1515, and Clara who w…
‘Splendid opportunities’
In late March 1946, University of Melbourne graduate and long-time Hong Kong\nresident Elma Mary Kelly (1895–1974) gave an interview to Melbourne’s Argus\nnewspaper. Released from Stanley prison camp in August 1945, Kelly had recently\nlanded in her hometown after a brief sojourn in London. It was her great desire,\nKelly told the reporter, to ‘go back to the East’, where she thought there would\nbe ‘splendid opportunities, especially for Austral…
Paranoia and the Far Right in 1970s Rural New South Wales
When Gough Whitlam’s Labor government won re-election in 1974, Nora Opferkuch, a Coonabarabran farmer, wrote to the Attorney-General Lionel Murphy. After congratulating him on the party’s success, she warned him of the parlous state of political life in the Central New South Wales town. “No one dares speak Politics in Coonabarabran now,” she wrote. The town was in the grip of a fascist conspiracy that had resulted in a terrible crime. Opferkuch’s…
University Education and the Quest for the Professionalisation of Journalism in Australia between the World Wars
The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reliability and status of journalism. In response, unprecedented changes to the education of journalists were introduced around the world, including in Australia. By the 1920s, the majority of Australian universities offered a Diploma in Journalism, developed in collaboration with the Australian Journalists’ Association (A…
The Precarious Working Life of Muriel Heagney, Labour Activist
Muriel Heagney's activism for equal pay for the sexes has been well documented. Heagney (1885–1974) is an important actor in the key works on the history of the struggle for equal pay and improved opportunities and conditions for women workers in Australia. But what about her own pay and conditions, during her more than 50 years as a labour activist? As an unmarried, working-class woman, how did she support herself and her activism? This article …
Signor Perugini’ and advertising education in Australia
The Australian advertising industry took steps to improve its efficiency and reputation in the interwar period. These steps included restricting entry to the industry by means of a national accreditation system based on standardised courses and examinations. This article examines the development and application of this system by tracing the background and career of Edward Perugini, Australia’s leading advertising educator and the architect of the…
Nowhere Else to Work
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, a noticeable cluster of left activists (both women and men, and all, at some point, members of the Communist Party) could be found working in the Australian advertising industry, using their artistic and writing skills to support themselves and pursue their political goals. The article explores the complex relationship between left politics and consumer culture in this period by examining the careers of a h…
“The Politics of Political Advertising” in Australia and Britain, 1970–1989
The role of advertising in the production of political campaigns deserves more consideration than it has previously received. My study examines advertising agencies associated with election campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s, investigating their decisions to accept or reject political accounts. Focusing on Britain and Australia, and using a range of primary sources including the industry press, interviews and memoirs, I demonstrate that an agency's…
Global Advertising Histories
This article surveys the historiography of the global advertising industry, identifying the key challenges and debates raised by American and British scholars, and then discusses two important questions for historians of Australian advertising. First, if advertising is a globalised and ‘Americanised’ industry, exactly how Australian is the Australian advertising industry? Second, can we understand how advertising works by analysing advertisements…
Advertising Lives
Since the 1950s, a small but growing number of Australian advertising practitioners have produced memoirs documenting their time in advertising. Generally descriptive in their content, they cover the authors’ career trajectory, their successes and shortcomings, and various personal and professional lessons that they have learnt along the way. By comparing and contrasting these memoirs, this article not only charts the experiences and insights of …
Labour Women's Leadership
This issue of Labour History is dedicated to the study of labour women's leadership. The topic is relatively unfamiliar to the pages of the journal, and even to academic scholarship
The past in Australian advertising, 1906–2010
The past is just one device used in advertisements to attract the attention of the consumer. This article examines Australian advertising's use of the past, asking when and how it has been used and what histories have been invoked. Based on a study of the magazine Australia To-day from 1905–63 and supplemented by interviews with contemporary advertising creatives who have also used the past, the article finds that Australian advertising has alway…
God Give us Men’ Attitudes Towards Parliamentary Representation in Australia, 1929–1933
It has become commonplace to assert that levels of political trust are at an all-time low in mass western democracies. This article tests that assertion by examining more than 400 letters written to leading politicians between 1929 and 1933. The predominantly middle-class letter-writers complained that politicians as a class were dishonest, self-interested and greedy, and failed to keep their promises. Many writers were uncertain about their own …
Journalists Writing Australian Political History
There has been a considerable increase in the number of political histories written by journalists since the 1960s. Three types of journalistic political histories have emerged in this period: the quickie, the longer history and the investigative work, and the works of Warren Denning, Alan Reid and Paul Kelly have been particularly influential in the development of the genre's present characteristics and concerns. This article finds that the genr…
Global Advertising Histories
This article surveys the historiography of the global advertising industry, identifying the key challenges and debates raised by American and British scholars, and then discusses two important questions for historians of Australian advertising. First, if advertising is a globalised and ‘Americanised’ industry, exactly how Australian is the Australian advertising industry? Second, can we understand how advertising works by analysing advertisements…
University Education and the Quest for the Professionalisation of Journalism in Australia between the World Wars
The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reliability and status of journalism. In response, unprecedented changes to the education of journalists were introduced around the world, including in Australia. By the 1920s, the majority of Australian universities offered a Diploma in Journalism, developed in collaboration with the Australian Journalists’ Association (A…
Nowhere Else to Work
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, a noticeable cluster of left activists (both women and men, and all, at some point, members of the Communist Party) could be found working in the Australian advertising industry, using their artistic and writing skills to support themselves and pursue their political goals. The article explores the complex relationship between left politics and consumer culture in this period by examining the careers of a h…
The past in Australian advertising, 1906–2010
The past is just one device used in advertisements to attract the attention of the consumer. This article examines Australian advertising's use of the past, asking when and how it has been used and what histories have been invoked. Based on a study of the magazine Australia To-day from 1905–63 and supplemented by interviews with contemporary advertising creatives who have also used the past, the article finds that Australian advertising has alway…
Journalists Writing Australian Political History
There has been a considerable increase in the number of political histories written by journalists since the 1960s. Three types of journalistic political histories have emerged in this period: the quickie, the longer history and the investigative work, and the works of Warren Denning, Alan Reid and Paul Kelly have been particularly influential in the development of the genre's present characteristics and concerns. This article finds that the genr…
God Give us Men’ Attitudes Towards Parliamentary Representation in Australia, 1929–1933
It has become commonplace to assert that levels of political trust are at an all-time low in mass western democracies. This article tests that assertion by examining more than 400 letters written to leading politicians between 1929 and 1933. The predominantly middle-class letter-writers complained that politicians as a class were dishonest, self-interested and greedy, and failed to keep their promises. Many writers were uncertain about their own …
The past in Australian advertising, 1906–2010
The past is just one device used in advertisements to attract the attention of the consumer. This article examines Australian advertising's use of the past, asking when and how it has been used and what histories have been invoked. Based on a study of the magazine Australia To-day from 1905–63 and supplemented by interviews with contemporary advertising creatives who have also used the past, the article finds that Australian advertising has alway…
Labour Women's Leadership
This issue of Labour History is dedicated to the study of labour women's leadership. The topic is relatively unfamiliar to the pages of the journal, and even to academic scholarship
“The Politics of Political Advertising” in Australia and Britain, 1970–1989
The role of advertising in the production of political campaigns deserves more consideration than it has previously received. My study examines advertising agencies associated with election campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s, investigating their decisions to accept or reject political accounts. Focusing on Britain and Australia, and using a range of primary sources including the industry press, interviews and memoirs, I demonstrate that an agency's…
Global Advertising Histories
This article surveys the historiography of the global advertising industry, identifying the key challenges and debates raised by American and British scholars, and then discusses two important questions for historians of Australian advertising. First, if advertising is a globalised and ‘Americanised’ industry, exactly how Australian is the Australian advertising industry? Second, can we understand how advertising works by analysing advertisements…
Advertising Lives
Since the 1950s, a small but growing number of Australian advertising practitioners have produced memoirs documenting their time in advertising. Generally descriptive in their content, they cover the authors’ career trajectory, their successes and shortcomings, and various personal and professional lessons that they have learnt along the way. By comparing and contrasting these memoirs, this article not only charts the experiences and insights of …
Nowhere Else to Work
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, a noticeable cluster of left activists (both women and men, and all, at some point, members of the Communist Party) could be found working in the Australian advertising industry, using their artistic and writing skills to support themselves and pursue their political goals. The article explores the complex relationship between left politics and consumer culture in this period by examining the careers of a h…
Signor Perugini’ and advertising education in Australia
The Australian advertising industry took steps to improve its efficiency and reputation in the interwar period. These steps included restricting entry to the industry by means of a national accreditation system based on standardised courses and examinations. This article examines the development and application of this system by tracing the background and career of Edward Perugini, Australia’s leading advertising educator and the architect of the…
‘Splendid opportunities’
In late March 1946, University of Melbourne graduate and long-time Hong Kong\nresident Elma Mary Kelly (1895–1974) gave an interview to Melbourne’s Argus\nnewspaper. Released from Stanley prison camp in August 1945, Kelly had recently\nlanded in her hometown after a brief sojourn in London. It was her great desire,\nKelly told the reporter, to ‘go back to the East’, where she thought there would\nbe ‘splendid opportunities, especially for Austral…
Paranoia and the Far Right in 1970s Rural New South Wales
When Gough Whitlam’s Labor government won re-election in 1974, Nora Opferkuch, a Coonabarabran farmer, wrote to the Attorney-General Lionel Murphy. After congratulating him on the party’s success, she warned him of the parlous state of political life in the Central New South Wales town. “No one dares speak Politics in Coonabarabran now,” she wrote. The town was in the grip of a fascist conspiracy that had resulted in a terrible crime. Opferkuch’s…
University Education and the Quest for the Professionalisation of Journalism in Australia between the World Wars
The crisis of World War I, including the challenges of reporting from the fighting front, sparked public discussion about the reliability and status of journalism. In response, unprecedented changes to the education of journalists were introduced around the world, including in Australia. By the 1920s, the majority of Australian universities offered a Diploma in Journalism, developed in collaboration with the Australian Journalists’ Association (A…
The Precarious Working Life of Muriel Heagney, Labour Activist
Muriel Heagney's activism for equal pay for the sexes has been well documented. Heagney (1885–1974) is an important actor in the key works on the history of the struggle for equal pay and improved opportunities and conditions for women workers in Australia. But what about her own pay and conditions, during her more than 50 years as a labour activist? As an unmarried, working-class woman, how did she support herself and her activism? This article …
The Circle of Life Is Endless”
When “King Kong Rhino”—the monumental–sculpture by the Taiwanese artist Shih Li-Jen (1955–) left Venice for Bassano del Grappa in December 2018, it joined a distinguished line of rhinoceroses to have embarked on a European tour. This article examines the place of Shih’s rhinoceros sculptures in this “Endless Circle of Life,” beginning with the European journeys of two historical rhinoceroses, Ganda who arrived in Portugal in 1515, and Clara who w…
Living Advertisements’
In August 1900, a new type of charity event – the advertising poster ball – was introduced to Australia. The event brought together a range of pre-existing cultural forms to promote mass market brands, facilitated by a new, visual advertising culture. Over the next forty years, the poster ball was adopted by community groups, becoming a regular feature on the social and fundraising calendar. By harnessing people’s innate longing for creative expr…
Managing the Marketplace
Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 53(1), pp. 168–169
The poor man’s overdraft’
Most histories of Australian cultural life pin the start of consumer credit's popularity to the 1950s and the heady days of the early long boom. This article reveals the longer history of consumer credit in Australia. Middle-class Australians have long made use of forms of credit provided by retailers such as monthly accounts to supplement their incomes, take advantage of special offers, deal with unexpected expenses, or indulge impulsive desires…
The Routledge Companion to the History of Advertising
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