EDGAR WATERS 1925-2008


Historian and folklorist, Edgar Waters, was an academic and special advisor to the National Library of Australia Oral History and Folklore collections for many years. His recorded, manuscript and published work can be accessed by searching under his name at the NLA:

 

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Waters%2C%20Edgar%2C%201925-2008%22&iknowwhatimean=1

 

These holdings include interviews with Australian folklorists, as well as interviews of him regarding his contributions to Wattle Records, his academic and folkloric research, including his influential PhD thesis, as well as a range of related social history and folklore projects.

 

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