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Dreaming of Lords

1988 film by Bob Ellis

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ15039761 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dreaming of Lords is a 1988 Australian documentary about the May 1988 cricket tour of an Australian team, fully made up of Aboriginal Australians.

The team, captained by John McGuire, visited England to mark the Australian Bicentenary and it called back to the teams visit in 1868 which this documentary also discussed.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dreaming of Lords” as 1988 film by Bob Ellis. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1868—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. The account is most persuasive where Dreaming, Lords and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1988 film by Bob Ellis. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15039761. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1868.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dreaming of Lords”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dreaming of Lords primary sources, Dreaming of Lords archive and Dreaming research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dreaming of Lords”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Dreaming of Lords” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.