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  1. Australia has an archive for soil! The Australian National Soil Archive has samples of soil taken up to 100 years ago. It has around 100,000 samples taken from over 30,000 sites.

    #archives #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/act

  2. Australia has an archive for soil! The Australian National Soil Archive has samples of soil taken up to 100 years ago. It has around 100,000 samples taken from over 30,000 sites.

    #archives #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/act

  3. Australia has an archive for soil! The Australian National Soil Archive has samples of soil taken up to 100 years ago. It has around 100,000 samples taken from over 30,000 sites.

    #archives #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/act

  4. Australia has an archive for soil! The Australian National Soil Archive has samples of soil taken up to 100 years ago. It has around 100,000 samples taken from over 30,000 sites.

    #archives #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/act

  5. Australia has an archive for soil! The Australian National Soil Archive has samples of soil taken up to 100 years ago. It has around 100,000 samples taken from over 30,000 sites.

    #archives #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/act

  6. For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0 #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

  7. For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0 #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

  8. For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0 #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

  9. For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0 #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

  10. For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. updates.timsherratt.org/2026/0 #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

  11. "‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list"

    This area in south-west Queensland has 55 hectares of quarries and was on a major trading route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northern Flinders Ranges.
    #OzHist #Australia #Queensland

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  12. "‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list"

    This area in south-west Queensland has 55 hectares of quarries and was on a major trading route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northern Flinders Ranges.
    #OzHist #Australia #Queensland

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  13. "‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list"

    This area in south-west Queensland has 55 hectares of quarries and was on a major trading route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northern Flinders Ranges.
    #OzHist #Australia #Queensland

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  14. "‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list"

    This area in south-west Queensland has 55 hectares of quarries and was on a major trading route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northern Flinders Ranges.
    #OzHist #Australia #Queensland

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  15. "‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list"

    This area in south-west Queensland has 55 hectares of quarries and was on a major trading route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northern Flinders Ranges.
    #OzHist #Australia #Queensland

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  16. What a wonderful partnership between The Headstone Project SA and a school in South Australia!

    Around 2,500 WWI veterans were buried in unmarked graves in South Australia. Through this partnership, students research these graves so that the deceased veterans can be properly recognised.
    #SouthAustralia #OzHist #WW1 #FamilyHistoryAU #FamilyHistory

    Descendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/stu

  17. What a wonderful partnership between The Headstone Project SA and a school in South Australia!

    Around 2,500 WWI veterans were buried in unmarked graves in South Australia. Through this partnership, students research these graves so that the deceased veterans can be properly recognised.
    #SouthAustralia #OzHist #WW1 #FamilyHistoryAU #FamilyHistory

    Descendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/stu

  18. What a wonderful partnership between The Headstone Project SA and a school in South Australia!

    Around 2,500 WWI veterans were buried in unmarked graves in South Australia. Through this partnership, students research these graves so that the deceased veterans can be properly recognised.
    #SouthAustralia #OzHist #WW1 #FamilyHistoryAU #FamilyHistory

    Descendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/stu

  19. What a wonderful partnership between The Headstone Project SA and a school in South Australia!

    Around 2,500 WWI veterans were buried in unmarked graves in South Australia. Through this partnership, students research these graves so that the deceased veterans can be properly recognised.
    #SouthAustralia #OzHist #WW1 #FamilyHistoryAU #FamilyHistory

    Descendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/stu

  20. What a wonderful partnership between The Headstone Project SA and a school in South Australia!

    Around 2,500 WWI veterans were buried in unmarked graves in South Australia. Through this partnership, students research these graves so that the deceased veterans can be properly recognised.
    #SouthAustralia #OzHist #WW1 #FamilyHistoryAU #FamilyHistory

    Descendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/stu

  21. Read about about the colourful life of a bloke called George featuring a riot at a cricket match in Sydney between NSW and England in 1879 with random appearances by Banjo Patterson and Edmund Barton.

    This tale is very well written by Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
    #cricket #OzHist

    theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

  22. Read about about the colourful life of a bloke called George featuring a riot at a cricket match in Sydney between NSW and England in 1879 with random appearances by Banjo Patterson and Edmund Barton.

    This tale is very well written by Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
    #cricket #OzHist

    theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

  23. Read about about the colourful life of a bloke called George featuring a riot at a cricket match in Sydney between NSW and England in 1879 with random appearances by Banjo Patterson and Edmund Barton.

    This tale is very well written by Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
    #cricket #OzHist

    theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

  24. Read about about the colourful life of a bloke called George featuring a riot at a cricket match in Sydney between NSW and England in 1879 with random appearances by Banjo Patterson and Edmund Barton.

    This tale is very well written by Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
    #cricket #OzHist

    theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

  25. Read about about the colourful life of a bloke called George featuring a riot at a cricket match in Sydney between NSW and England in 1879 with random appearances by Banjo Patterson and Edmund Barton.

    This tale is very well written by Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
    #cricket #OzHist

    theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov

  26. Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

    The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

    I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the

    I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
    theconversation.com/politics-w

    #OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia

  27. Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

    The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

    I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the

    I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
    theconversation.com/politics-w

    #OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia

  28. Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

    The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

    I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the

    I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
    theconversation.com/politics-w

    #OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia

  29. Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

    The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

    I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the

    I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
    theconversation.com/politics-w

    #OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia

  30. Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

    The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

    I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the

    I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
    theconversation.com/politics-w

    #OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia

  31. Biographers muse on the future of biography when our everyday personal records are stored in electronic formats instead of paper, often ephemeral and other times locked away in obsolete formats or password-locked files: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/bio

    Do historians need to learn how to code? Yes. This is why I regarded the ability to code an important part of my toolkit when I was working as a professional historian. Knowing how to use an API to efficiently and effectively search and download digitised records was important in my work. I developed a particular methodology to ensure that I maintained sound standards of evidence gathering.

    Government archives have been born digital for quite a few years now. Digital cameras, OCR and databases, blogs and websites have revolutionised the way historians research for quite a few years.

    We stopped writing physical letters quite a few years ago. Historians of the future will develop new research techniques to get a glimpse into the past, just as many historians like me have done today. Missing records have always been something historians have to contend with - letters that were destroyed or never written. We have never had a complete record of the past, and that won't change in the future.

    #OzHist #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #History

  32. Biographers muse on the future of biography when our everyday personal records are stored in electronic formats instead of paper, often ephemeral and other times locked away in obsolete formats or password-locked files: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/bio

    Do historians need to learn how to code? Yes. This is why I regarded the ability to code an important part of my toolkit when I was working as a professional historian. Knowing how to use an API to efficiently and effectively search and download digitised records was important in my work. I developed a particular methodology to ensure that I maintained sound standards of evidence gathering.

    Government archives have been born digital for quite a few years now. Digital cameras, OCR and databases, blogs and websites have revolutionised the way historians research for quite a few years.

    We stopped writing physical letters quite a few years ago. Historians of the future will develop new research techniques to get a glimpse into the past, just as many historians like me have done today. Missing records have always been something historians have to contend with - letters that were destroyed or never written. We have never had a complete record of the past, and that won't change in the future.

    #OzHist #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #History

  33. Biographers muse on the future of biography when our everyday personal records are stored in electronic formats instead of paper, often ephemeral and other times locked away in obsolete formats or password-locked files: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/bio

    Do historians need to learn how to code? Yes. This is why I regarded the ability to code an important part of my toolkit when I was working as a professional historian. Knowing how to use an API to efficiently and effectively search and download digitised records was important in my work. I developed a particular methodology to ensure that I maintained sound standards of evidence gathering.

    Government archives have been born digital for quite a few years now. Digital cameras, OCR and databases, blogs and websites have revolutionised the way historians research for quite a few years.

    We stopped writing physical letters quite a few years ago. Historians of the future will develop new research techniques to get a glimpse into the past, just as many historians like me have done today. Missing records have always been something historians have to contend with - letters that were destroyed or never written. We have never had a complete record of the past, and that won't change in the future.

    #OzHist #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #History

  34. Biographers muse on the future of biography when our everyday personal records are stored in electronic formats instead of paper, often ephemeral and other times locked away in obsolete formats or password-locked files: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/bio

    Do historians need to learn how to code? Yes. This is why I regarded the ability to code an important part of my toolkit when I was working as a professional historian. Knowing how to use an API to efficiently and effectively search and download digitised records was important in my work. I developed a particular methodology to ensure that I maintained sound standards of evidence gathering.

    Government archives have been born digital for quite a few years now. Digital cameras, OCR and databases, blogs and websites have revolutionised the way historians research for quite a few years.

    We stopped writing physical letters quite a few years ago. Historians of the future will develop new research techniques to get a glimpse into the past, just as many historians like me have done today. Missing records have always been something historians have to contend with - letters that were destroyed or never written. We have never had a complete record of the past, and that won't change in the future.

    #OzHist #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #History

  35. Biographers muse on the future of biography when our everyday personal records are stored in electronic formats instead of paper, often ephemeral and other times locked away in obsolete formats or password-locked files: abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/bio

    Do historians need to learn how to code? Yes. This is why I regarded the ability to code an important part of my toolkit when I was working as a professional historian. Knowing how to use an API to efficiently and effectively search and download digitised records was important in my work. I developed a particular methodology to ensure that I maintained sound standards of evidence gathering.

    Government archives have been born digital for quite a few years now. Digital cameras, OCR and databases, blogs and websites have revolutionised the way historians research for quite a few years.

    We stopped writing physical letters quite a few years ago. Historians of the future will develop new research techniques to get a glimpse into the past, just as many historians like me have done today. Missing records have always been something historians have to contend with - letters that were destroyed or never written. We have never had a complete record of the past, and that won't change in the future.

    #OzHist #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #History

  36. When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.

    Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.

    #OzHist #WesternDistrict

  37. When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.

    Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.

    #OzHist #WesternDistrict

  38. When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.

    Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.

    #OzHist #WesternDistrict

  39. When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.

    Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.

    #OzHist #WesternDistrict

  40. When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.

    Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.

    #OzHist #WesternDistrict

  41. Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.

    The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.

    Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic

    #volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist

  42. Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.

    The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.

    Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic

    #volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist

  43. Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.

    The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.

    Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic

    #volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist

  44. Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.

    The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.

    Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic

    #volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist

  45. Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.

    The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.

    Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic

    #volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist