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The Greek Herald newspaper in Australia is celebrating its 100th anniversary reporting news in the Greek language:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-one-of-australias-oldest-migrant-newspapers-is-still-making-headlines/oiylf44u3
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The Greek Herald newspaper in Australia is celebrating its 100th anniversary reporting news in the Greek language:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-one-of-australias-oldest-migrant-newspapers-is-still-making-headlines/oiylf44u3
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Good news for Australian historians who need copies of documents from archives in the US: https://sourceryapp.org/2026/04/13/place-sourcery-requests-from-anywhere-in-the-world/ #histodons #ozhist
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Good news for Australian historians who need copies of documents from archives in the US: https://sourceryapp.org/2026/04/13/place-sourcery-requests-from-anywhere-in-the-world/ #histodons #ozhist
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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.
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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.
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The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/forgotten-political-history-of-australia-convicts/103621728
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The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/forgotten-political-history-of-australia-convicts/103621728
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For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist
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For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist
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"‘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.
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"‘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.
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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 #FamilyHistoryDescendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/students-uncover-legacy-of-lost-world-war-i-veterans/106095386 -
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 #FamilyHistoryDescendent emotional to see WWI digger in unmarked grave receive recognition - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/students-uncover-legacy-of-lost-world-war-i-veterans/106095386 -
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 #OzHisthttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/12/ashes-test-cricket-rivalry-1897-sydney-riot
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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 #OzHisthttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/12/ashes-test-cricket-rivalry-1897-sydney-riot
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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.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the-dismissal-50th-anniversary-photo/105958494
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:
https://theconversation.com/politics-with-michelle-grattan-remembering-the-day-gough-whitlam-lost-his-job-269387 -
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.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the-dismissal-50th-anniversary-photo/105958494
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:
https://theconversation.com/politics-with-michelle-grattan-remembering-the-day-gough-whitlam-lost-his-job-269387 -
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: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/biography-ai-algorithm-letters-diaries-digital-world/105923770
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.
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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: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/biography-ai-algorithm-letters-diaries-digital-world/105923770
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.
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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.
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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.
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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: https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic/landscape-change/
#volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist
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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: https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic/landscape-change/
#volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist
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There were a lot of indigenous peoples living in this area when the European settlers arrived. Sadly, many were driven out by the invaders very early on. This map shows some of the language groups in the state of Victoria.
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There were a lot of indigenous peoples living in this area when the European settlers arrived. Sadly, many were driven out by the invaders very early on. This map shows some of the language groups in the state of Victoria.
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A 120 year-old message in a bottle has been found in the walls of a Tasmanian lighthouse
#OzHist #Tasmania #lighthouse -
A 120 year-old message in a bottle has been found in the walls of a Tasmanian lighthouse
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The National Museum of Australia has the puppets from the old Australian children's TV program, Mr Squiggle, on display until mid-October.
Blackboard was my favourite character - "Oh hurry up!" in a deep, growly voice.
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The National Museum of Australia has the puppets from the old Australian children's TV program, Mr Squiggle, on display until mid-October.
Blackboard was my favourite character - "Oh hurry up!" in a deep, growly voice.
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We are in the midst of an archival 'digital desert' where movie, videos and TV shows produced by streaming companies are withdrawn by them leaving the world without the ability to access them for posterity.
This article is a good introduction to the problems of maintaining historical archives of 'moving pictures'. Most material produced since the invention of the form has been lost to the world.
#archives #OzHist #movies #TVshowshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-17/vhs-dvds-streaming-and-the-rise-of-lost-media/104674526
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We are in the midst of an archival 'digital desert' where movie, videos and TV shows produced by streaming companies are withdrawn by them leaving the world without the ability to access them for posterity.
This article is a good introduction to the problems of maintaining historical archives of 'moving pictures'. Most material produced since the invention of the form has been lost to the world.
#archives #OzHist #movies #TVshowshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-17/vhs-dvds-streaming-and-the-rise-of-lost-media/104674526
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Interesting piece about Beatrice Faust and the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). WEL actively lobbied politicians of all backgrounds about Women's issues and arguably influenced the 1972 Australian election.
This week Text is publishing a book about Beatrice Faust written by Judith Brett.
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Interesting piece about Beatrice Faust and the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). WEL actively lobbied politicians of all backgrounds about Women's issues and arguably influenced the 1972 Australian election.
This week Text is publishing a book about Beatrice Faust written by Judith Brett.
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Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour!
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/ 🎧
#AustralianHistory #History #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #AusPods #OzHist #WW2 #japanesemidgetsubs #SydneyHarbour
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Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour!
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/ 🎧
#AustralianHistory #History #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #AusPods #OzHist #WW2 #japanesemidgetsubs #SydneyHarbour
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For those with access, the Saturday Paper has an excellent article today by Kim Rubenstein on Dutton's weaponisation of citizenship: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/03/29/duttons-weaponisation-citizenship #auspol #ozhist
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For those with access, the Saturday Paper has an excellent article today by Kim Rubenstein on Dutton's weaponisation of citizenship: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/03/29/duttons-weaponisation-citizenship #auspol #ozhist
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The next ARDC Community Data Lab co-design session will be focused on building tools for HASS research using 'Public Interest Documents' – this includes things like Hansard and other government documents. It's run next week on 25 Feb. I think it's important to get more historians involved, so sign up now to help shape the project. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ardc-community-data-lab-co-design-workshop-public-interest-documents-tickets-1245620206569?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1 #researchInfrastructure #histodons #ozHist @histodons
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The next ARDC Community Data Lab co-design session will be focused on building tools for HASS research using 'Public Interest Documents' – this includes things like Hansard and other government documents. It's run next week on 25 Feb. I think it's important to get more historians involved, so sign up now to help shape the project. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ardc-community-data-lab-co-design-workshop-public-interest-documents-tickets-1245620206569?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1 #researchInfrastructure #histodons #ozHist @histodons
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One of my favourite historians, Brenda Niall, has just published a biography of Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
#OzHist #biography -
One of my favourite historians, Brenda Niall, has just published a biography of Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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The @zotero translator for Libraries Tasmania has been updated and is once again attaching digitised images and PDFs to items. The translator works across the library and archives catalogues, as well as the names index. There's some more details here: https://ozglam.chat/t/a-zotero-translator-for-libraries-tasmania/705 #GLAM #histodons #ozhist
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The @zotero translator for Libraries Tasmania has been updated and is once again attaching digitised images and PDFs to items. The translator works across the library and archives catalogues, as well as the names index. There's some more details here: https://ozglam.chat/t/a-zotero-translator-for-libraries-tasmania/705 #GLAM #histodons #ozhist
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Matthew Flinders recovered from the last horrific leg of his circumnavigation of Australia, and sets off back to England…. But the journey will take a lot longer than anticipated. 🫣
The final episode available today. 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/75-bass-flinders-pt6/ 🎧
#Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #Australia
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Matthew Flinders recovered from the last horrific leg of his circumnavigation of Australia, and sets off back to England…. But the journey will take a lot longer than anticipated. 🫣
The final episode available today. 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/75-bass-flinders-pt6/ 🎧
#Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #Australia
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The final episode on Bass & Flinders is in production but claiming Flinders coined the term Australia first might be controversial? 🤔
🔗 https://theconversation.com/putting-australia-on-the-map-29816
#history #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders #Australia #Maps
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The final episode on Bass & Flinders is in production but claiming Flinders coined the term Australia first might be controversial? 🤔
🔗 https://theconversation.com/putting-australia-on-the-map-29816
#history #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders #Australia #Maps
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Gravesites are important for genealogy and social history. This article also mentions the Australian Cemetries Index which is a very helpful collection of cemetery indexes. In Canberra we used it to help a distraught elderly man find the gravesite of his mother.
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Gravesites are important for genealogy and social history. This article also mentions the Australian Cemetries Index which is a very helpful collection of cemetery indexes. In Canberra we used it to help a distraught elderly man find the gravesite of his mother.
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There's been some early #newspapers from western Victoria added to #Trove over recent weeks:
- The Portland Mercury and Normanby Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 - 1843)
- The Portland Mercury and Port Fairy Register (Vic. : 1843 - 1844)
- Portland Gazette and Belfast Advertiser (Vic. : 1844 - 1849)
- The Belfast Gazette and Portland and Warnambool Advertiser (Vic. 1849 - 1876)See the Trove Data Dashboard for updates: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #ozHist
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There's been some early #newspapers from western Victoria added to #Trove over recent weeks:
- The Portland Mercury and Normanby Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 - 1843)
- The Portland Mercury and Port Fairy Register (Vic. : 1843 - 1844)
- Portland Gazette and Belfast Advertiser (Vic. : 1844 - 1849)
- The Belfast Gazette and Portland and Warnambool Advertiser (Vic. 1849 - 1876)See the Trove Data Dashboard for updates: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #ozHist
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Just added the 1933-34 volume to my searchable version of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories. There's now 50 volumes in total from 1890 to 1948. Almost 6 million lines of OCRd text. https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/tasmanian-post-office-directories/ Still a few volumes from the 40s to come... #histodons #familyHistory #ozHist #Tasmania
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Just added the 1933-34 volume to my searchable version of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories. There's now 50 volumes in total from 1890 to 1948. Almost 6 million lines of OCRd text. https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/tasmanian-post-office-directories/ Still a few volumes from the 40s to come... #histodons #familyHistory #ozHist #Tasmania
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Hey Victorians! @baibi's research on Chinese women and the White Australia Policy has inspired a performance and exhibition at Platform Arts in Geelong, 'Ham Hop the Gold Mountain Wife': https://platformarts.org.au/events/ham-hop It's on 19 October and free! #histodons #ozHist
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Hey Victorians! @baibi's research on Chinese women and the White Australia Policy has inspired a performance and exhibition at Platform Arts in Geelong, 'Ham Hop the Gold Mountain Wife': https://platformarts.org.au/events/ham-hop It's on 19 October and free! #histodons #ozHist