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 Discussion of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe (2020) with author Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, filmed 2 May 2020. Topics include: The importance of Childe; writing Fatal Lure; the neo-liberal university; Peter Gathercole.  (9:02 mins)

  Discussion of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe (2020) with author Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, filmed 2 May 2020. Topics include: The style of Fatal Lure; the first generation of British Labour historians; Radical History; Childe’s use of non-academic publications. (08:44 mins)

  Discussion of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe (2020) with author Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, filmed 2 May 2020. Topics include: Childe and the spooks; George Orwell and Childe; Benedetto Croce and Childe’s Marxism. (22:00 mins)

 Discussion of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe (2020) with author Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, filmed 2 May 2020. Topics include: Jack Lindsay; Western Marxism; premature New-Leftism; psychoanalysis; sexuality; posh cars. (13:58 mins)

  Discussion of The Fatal Lure of Politics: The life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe (2020) with author Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, filmed 2 May 2020. Topics include: Childe’s last years; suicide; the scientific basis for Historical Materialism; radical intellectual life; David Martin’s Childe poem. (13:20 mins)

  Filmed interview with Rowan Cahill about the Vietnam anti-war movement and his role and experiences in this. Professionally filmed in 2014 for the Larry Zetlin documentary “Hell No! We Won’t Go”.  Australian War Memorial Archives. (44:17 mins)

  Presentation by Rowan Cahill to the conference “1968: Counterculture, Protest, Revolution” held by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong on 30 November 2018.(18:38 mins). 

  The Sydney Vietnam Moratorium Marches: An online exhibition from Addi Road’s Living Museum program, History Week 2021. Extracts from interview with Rowan Cahill featured. 

Interview by oral historian Wendy Lowenstein (1927-2006) with Australian left trade union organiser and political activist Dave Mazengarb (1950-2010) about his time in prison during the 1970s and the significant impact History teacher Rowan Cahill had on him whilst he was interned and undertaking matriculation studies. See Session 1 at c. the 20 minute mark. Part of the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project, National Library of Australia. 

Sympathetic television current affairs documentary examining Australian protest movements in the 1960s, with focus on the anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War movement. Significant Sydney-based footage and interviews, particularly Sydney University activists including Rowan Cahill. Producer and Director: Lance Peters. Screened : ATN7 Television, 1967. Copy in the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Title No. 44550.

Documentary film (2014) on the radical political and social history of the regional NSW industrial town of Wollongong, with the emphasis on 'history from below'. Interview with historian Rowan Cahill variously used in the film. Written by John Rainford; Directed by Paul Benedek and John Reynolds; Produced by Mel Barnes, John Rainford, and Green Left TV. Approximate running tome: 60 minutes.

"Craig Reucassel was born in South Africa, before his parents’ disgust for apartheid saw them relocate to Adelaide then the Southern Highlands of NSW. He meets Julia atop Mt Gibraltar in Bowral and together they hop into a Renault 12 and drive to the Reucassels’ first house in the area. Next stop is Bowral High School, where Craig was introduced to debating, a discovery that would change the course of his life. They meet Rowan Cahill, Craig’s former history teacher, whose unorthodox teaching methods inspired young Craig to find his voice. Driving to Sydney, they visit Sydney University, where he met the other Chaser boys, before walking to the nearby house in which the Chaser newspaper was born." 

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