This #Caturday you'll find me @statelibrarynsw trying to understand Phyllis Mander-Jones' career and fascination with the Pacific. I'm learning she was a cat person.

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Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, MLMSS 4337

History. Not as you know it, huh NSW? What are we doing here, shifting the most livable city debate from coffee, transport and housing to History and GLAM?
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At 13 years old, Phyllis did not want to keep travel journals, but by 1932 created a diary about her trip to Papua.

What was it about the Pacific Islands that caught her attention?

This Monday, I'll visit the State Library of New South Wales to learn why she changed her mind, and what this meant for generations of researchers concerned with Australian-Pacific relations.

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