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Paperclips

Posted on August 20, 2018 by dgm

It was only a throwaway comment, but one thing that tickled my fancy about the presentation on the MAMA archaeological dig was the comment that paperclips were not used before the 1890’s. Actually they were. While the machinery was for … Continue reading →

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MAMA – what lies beneath

Posted on August 18, 2018 by dgm

Despite it being a pretty horrible sleety hail spattered day I had to go into Albury, so I decided to take in the presentation on the results of the archaeological dig that preceded the building of MAMA, the Albury art … Continue reading →

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Patent medicines and nineteenth century globalisation

Posted on August 11, 2018 by dgm

I spent a good part of yesterday documenting some nineteenth century patent medicine and cosmetic bottles. Many of the brands are totally unknown today, such as Beetham’s glycerine and cucumber, yet were well known in their time. A fairly simple … Continue reading →

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Digitised newspapers and happenstance

Posted on July 31, 2018 by dgm

A few days ago J showed me a photograph of beechworth from the early 1990’s that one of her Art Society friends had come across. Nothing unusual, but the photograph was from the New York Times, which did seem a … Continue reading →

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Robert Burns Clow again

Posted on July 22, 2018 by dgm

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the fun I had unravelling the garbled story I had heard in Kuching about the death of Robin Burns Clow. Firstly, I’ll own up to making one mistake, the Anti Piracy expedition … Continue reading →

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Warts and panic …

Posted on July 21, 2018 by dgm

This is a more personal blog post than usual. Being an introvert by inclination I’m not one for sharing details of my life online. My interests and enthusiasms? yes! Personal stuff? Definitely not. However I’ve thought about this, and I … Continue reading →

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Princess Alexandra in Alexandra no less

Posted on July 15, 2018 by dgm

The little town of Alexandra in Victoria was not always called Alexandra. Originally it was called Red Gate, but some time after gold was found in the 1860’s it was renamed after Alexandra of Denmark, the wife of Bertie (later … Continue reading →

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The Mohyu lockup

Posted on July 15, 2018 by dgm

Yesterday was J’s birthday, and still in celebratory mode we decided that as today was a nice bright cold day, we’d drive over to Mansfield, stopping off at Harry Power’s lookout for a bit of a walk. Well, when we … Continue reading →

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Unravelling the death of Robert Burns Clow

Posted on July 7, 2018 by dgm

If you’ve been following this blog avidly, or indeed languidly, you’ll be aware that we spent most of May in Malaysia, and in fact we spent almost all of our time there in Kuching in Sarawak and in Sabah Sarawak … Continue reading →

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British reaction to the Russo Japanese war of 1905

Posted on July 5, 2018 by dgm

Quite some time ago now I became mildly fascinated by the Russo Japanese war of 1905 and how it all fitted into the various debacles in Korea resulting in the Korean war, not to mention the ongoing Russo Japanese fencing match … Continue reading →

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