Where are the women?
Yesterday on Twitter Jenny Symington asked the question, ‘Where are the women?’ in relation to The real face of White Australia: this is interesting. Where are the women?? @invisibleaus RT Invisible Australians project invisibleaustralians.org/faces/from @wragge @jonnybrownbill — Jenny Symington (@jcsymington)…
A lost newspaper?
On Saturday, 17 July 1869, the Sydney Morning Herald ran an advertisement (p. 9) for a newly released issue of the Illustrated Police News: I’m intrigued by the prospect of an illustration showing ‘Australian Ladies and their Mongolian Husbands enjoying…
Paper Trails: Travels with Anglo-Chinese Australians, 1900–1939
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been awarded the National Archives of Australia’s Ian Maclean Award for 2012. My project is called Paper Trails: Travels with Anglo-Chinese Australians, 1900–1939. I’m looking to start the project towards the end of…