"Aside from those that involve the tooth fairy, cash transactions are at an all-time low."

I can't comment on #Australia #ozHist - not my bailiwick - but claims of "all-time lows" re: use of cash are ignorant and profoundly ahistorical (otherwise, the article is worth a read).

How do #histodons get #journalists / #media to reflect before making misleading claims like these?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/cashless-society-financial-exclusion-safety-privacy-concerns/102706718

New #openAccess book out! 'Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand', edited by @baibi & Peter Prince, published by ANU Press. Chapters by @sophie & others. http://doi.org/10.22459/SA.2023 #histodons #ozHist @histodons

Commander of Australian troops at Long Tan dies days after 50th anniversary https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/commander-of-australian-troops-at-long-tan-dies-days-after-50th-anniversary-20230821-p5dy3o.html #OzHist #VietnamWar

The #OzHist of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions - significant documents in the development of Aboriginal land rights in modern Australia

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-60-years-old-the-yirrkala-bark-petitions-are-one-of-our-founding-documents-so-why-dont-we-know-more-about-them-210801

📣 139,558 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. Mostly NSW, with a few from SA and WA. Major changes include:

- Daily Mirror (NSW) +118,610
- Port Lincoln Times (SA) +15,480
- Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (WA) +5,489

See the Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard for weekly updates: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #ozHist

A wing and a prayer: flying doctors and the struggle to access healthcare in remote Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/20/a-wing-and-a-prayer-flying-doctors-and-the-struggle-to-access-healthcare-in-remote-australia

We recently did a story on the history of the fabulous Flying Doctor Service 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/65-royal-flying-doctor-service/

#FlyingDoctor #RFDS #Australia #Outback #AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast

Some convicts found exile from their home country unbearable, and would try every escape route to make their way back.

Episode 48 begins retelling the story of one such convict - a man who stole away & reinvented himself time & again.

🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/48-convict-mutineers-part-1/ 🎧

#History #AustralianHistory #AustralianStories #ozhist #AustralianPodcast #HistoryPodcast #histodons

A couple found a heap of "filthy metal" in the shed of the house they had just bought and sold it for $48,000.

There are a few lessons from this:
1. Always clean up filthy messes in your garden shed
2. Do your research
3. #OzHist pays

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-21/melbourne-birthday-cake-clock-found-garden-shed-sells-48k/102621120

📣 187,475 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. Interestingly, 62,288 of them were in one newspaper from one year – Sydney's Daily Mirror in 1941 (seems like digitisation has just kicked off). There were also additions to Victorian and SA papers.

Other changes include:

* Queanbeyan Age (NSW) +38,050 articles
* Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic) +26,946 articles
* Port Lincoln Times (SA) 25,768 articles

New newspapers:

* The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter (NSW, 1863)

See Trove newspaper data dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #digitalHumanites #histodons #ozHist

Some slow Friday afternoon resources for #familyHistory, #genealogy, & #histodons, courtesy of the #GLAMWorkbench...

GLAM Name Index Search – search for names in 263 indexes from 10 Australian GLAM orgs, over 10 million rows of data: https://glam-workbench.net/name-search/

NSW Post Office Directories – search across 54 vols from 1886 to 1950: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/nsw-post-office-directories/

Sydney Telephone directories – search across 44 vols from 1926 to 1954: https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/sydney-telephone-directories/

Tasmanian Post Office Directories – search across 48 vols from 1890 to 1948: https://glam-workbench.net/tasmanian-post-office-directories/

All free! Check out the GLAM Workbench for more: https://glam-workbench.net/ @histodons #ozHist

📣 122,501 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. All are from Victoria and NSW, 1861 to 1969.

Major changes include:

* Upper Murray and Mitta Herald (Vic) +32,218
* Williamstown Advertiser (Vic) +29,400
* Queanbeyan Age (NSW) +20,948

One new newspaper:

* The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier (NSW, 1861-62)

See the Trove newspaper data dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #ozHist #histodons

Visitors to Australia always 😱😱😱 about the things that’ll kill you here, but have you seen this sweet girl?
Listen all about it 🎧 australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/19-platypus-controversy/

(Plus the male might still try to kill you 🤷‍♀️) 😂

#platypus #australian #AustralianHistory #OzHist #OzHistory #AustralianStories #History #HistoryPodcast #AustralianPodcast #AustralianFauna #australianfaunawantstokillyou

📣 196,628 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. 132,505 of those were from the Williamstown Advertiser (Vic).

New newspapers include:

* Hills Gazette (SA)
* Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph (NSW)
* Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle (NSW)

See Trove Newspapers Data Dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #ozHist

Aboriginal artefacts at least 9000 years old found 14 metres under water off the coast of north-west Australia
#OzHist

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-28/underwater-ancient-aboriginal-discovery-pilbara-wa/102529502

Almost 1/2 Oz households have at least one dog. But lets take a look at the history & development of our uniquely Australian dogs. 🐶Ep 66
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/66-australian-dogs/

#AustralianHistory #Dogs #OzDogs #OzHist #OzPods #History #AustralianStories
📸Kelpie Pups (Audience submitted Wandabar Stockdogs ABCNews)

📣 Another big batch of 273,238 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week! And they're from a mix of Victorian, NSW, SA, and WA papers, across more than 100 years from 1861 to 1983.

Major changes include:

* Kyabram Guardian (Vic) +49,682
* Kyabram Free Press and Rodney and Deakin Shire Advocate (Vic) +37,798
* Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (WA) +35,343
* Port Lincoln Times (SA) +23,074

Also one new newspaper was added:

* Dubbo Dispatch (NSW, 1942)

See the Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #ozHist #histodons

If you've got a #Trove API key, try logging into your user account and run a search in the web interface -- there's now an option to 'Download results' as a CSV file. Your requests get queued & can be downloaded when ready through your user profile.

The data is not as rich as you get through the API (no full text for newspapers, no versions for works), and some multiple value fields are munged together in ways that will require some work to unpack, but useful for quick exploration/analysis. Works across all categories except websites. #GLAM #histodons #ozHist

📣 159,319 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. Mostly Victorian, but with some WA. Dates range from 1895 to 1955.

Major changes include:

* Kyabram Free Press and Rodney and Deakin Shire Advocate (Vic), +69,368
* The Woodend Star (Vic), +43,638
* Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (WA), +35,472

See the Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/ #GLAM #histodons #OzHist

It's been a long journey, but Peter Prince and my edited collection, 'Subjects and Aliens', is now listed as 'coming soon' with ANU Press! Looking forward to it being out in the world in the coming months. https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/subjects-aliens #histodons #OzHist

📣 209,995 digitised newspaper articles added to #Trove last week. While most were from Victoria, there were also significant additions to SA & WA newspapers.

Major changes include:

* Tungamah and Lake Rowan Express and St. James Gazette (Vic), +54,294
* Port Lincoln Times (SA), +44,005
* Kyabram Free Press and Rodney and Deakin Shire Advocate (Vic), +40,801

New WA newspapers!

* The Sportsman (1903-4)
* Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (1927-1934)

See the Trove Data Dashboard for more: https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/

#GLAM #histodons #ozHist