Neath Southern Skies

Neath Southern Stars was a 1938 Australian historical pageant written by Edmund Barclay. Commissioned by the Department of Education for the Sesquicentenary of European settlement of Australia, it was performed by a thousand secondary school students at Sydney Town Hall in March 1938.[1]

The pagent was divided into two parts - Australia before European settlement, and a parade of famous Australians "Makers of a Nation".[2][3] There were nine episodes.[4]

References
  1. Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 25 August 2023.
  2. "" NEATH SOUTHERN SKIES"". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 270. New South Wales, Australia. 23 March 1938. p. 24. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. New South Wales. Department of Education., "MAKERS OF A NATION.", The school magazine of literature for our boys and girls, Sydney: The Dept (Vol. 23 No. 3 Part 4 Class 6 (April 4, 1938)), nla.obj-827031796, retrieved 25 August 2023 – via Trove
  4. "SECONDARY SCHOOLS' PAGEANT". The Labor Daily. No. 4461. New South Wales, Australia. 23 March 1938. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
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