#1850s — Public Fediverse posts

Welcome to my project on arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist, Samuel Thomas Gill. It's a blend of #catalogueRaisonné, biography, historical narrative and map atlas. The scope is from Gill's arrival in #SouthAustralia in 1839 up to his early time at the Victorian gold diggings in 1852-53.

Project update: Six articles on the diggings are now complete except for pending visits to Sydney and Adelaide to check on some undigitised sources. Good progress on at least two articles for 1839-1844 gap.

Later this year I'll write some more reflective material and some of particular interest post 1853.

You can follow the hashtag #S_T_Gill for updates - you don't need to follow me.

#historyAU #1840s #1850s #VictoriaAU #colonialArtAU #historicalMapping #catalogueRaisonne #biography
https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill

A reaction from me to today's article on Ferdinand von Sommer by Professor Alexandra Ludewig (UWA) in The Conversation:

Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia.

https://theconversation.com/genius-or-charlatan-the-strange-tale-of-a-19th-century-polymath-who-left-a-trail-of-controversy-across-colonial-australia-242292

#1840s #historyAU #DutchEastIndies #miningHistory #vonSommer #SouthAustralia #WesternAustralia #1850s

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I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
Use GLAMWorkBench - https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/visualise-total-newspaper-articles-by-state-year/