- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: IMP0185
de Berg, Hazel Estelle
(1913 – 1984)- Born 1 January, 1913, Deniliquin New South Wales Australia
- Died 3 February, 1984
- Occupation Historian
Summary
Hazel de Berg interviewed thousands of people in her work as an oral historian. A significant number of her interviews are held in the oral history collection of the National Library of Australia. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1968 for services in collection of archival material.
Details
The third of six children to the Revered George Holland and his wife Ann, Hazel de Berg was raised in Deniliquin and trained as a radiographer. In 1957, author Frank Clune asked her to record a book for a blind friend. She completed a recording of Old Day, Old Ways by Dame Mary Gilmour. To provide some background biographical information, Hazel de Berg asked Dame Mary Gilmour if she would agree to a recorded interview. The information provided produced some previously unrecorded detail.
This recording became the first of the de Berg oral history collection, held at the National Library in Canberra and comprising approximately 1300 hour-long taped interviews. Originally the project was self-funded but in 1960, Sir Harold White, the Federal Parliamentary Librarian and National Librarian, offered her a Commonwealth Grant.
For more than 25 years Hazel de Berg documented Australia’s social history by recording poets, novelists, historians, painters, musicians and scientists, – people who were contributing to the ongoing intellectual life of Australia. Predeceased by her husband William, Hazel de Berg died on 3 February 1984 from a heart attack. She was survived by her twin daughters Diana and Deborah, and son Michael.
Published resources
- Book
- Newspaper Article
- Sound recording
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg
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Resource
- Trove: De Berg, Hazel (-1984), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-542626
Archival resources
- State Library of Victoria
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National Library of Australia
- [Biographical cuttings on Hazel Estelle de Berg, oral historian, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
- [Tape recorder used by Hazel de Berg for interviews for Oral History] [realia]
- Australian poetry live [sound recording] : classics from the Hazel de Berg collection / selected by Geoff Page
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
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National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Talking history program on the National Library's Oral History section and the Hazel de Berg Collection compiled by Tim Bowden [sound recording]
- Irene Greenwood interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Stroma Buttrose interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Jessie Street interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Judy Cassab interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Kath Walker interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Lorna Hayter interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Margaret Curtis-Otter interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Ruby Rich interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Ruby Rich interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Ruby Rich interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Thelma Bate interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Vida Lahey interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Esther Paterson interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Jessie Scotford interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Patsy Adam-Smith interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- [Poetry reading by Rosemary Dobson] [sound recording] / [recorded by : Hazel de Berg]
- Kathleen O'Connor interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Elizabeth Durack interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Elizabeth Guy interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Elizabeth Riddell interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Enid Conley interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Essie Coffey interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Heather George interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Helen Garner interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nancy Cato interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nerida Goodman interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Clair Isbister interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Thelma Clune interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Kylie Tennant interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Kylie Tennant interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Miriam Hyde interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Marjorie Pizer interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Hilda Abbott interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Bronwyn Yeates interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Dulcie Holland interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Ninette Dutton interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Maie Casey interviewed by Hazel deBerg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Gwen Harwood recites poetry in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Joan Phipson interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Jill Hellyer reading poetry in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nancy Robinson interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nancy Robinson Whittle interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Barbara Blackman interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection (1974) [sound recording]
- Cheryl Adamson interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Elizabeth Harrower interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nancy Keesing interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Nancy Keesing interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- H. F. Brinsmead interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Jean Skuse interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Vicki Viidikas interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Dulcie Deamer interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Anne Summers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]