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Newspaper brands and logos are much of a muchness, although you can pick out some memes – like the use of an Olde English style font for a bit of gravitas as seen in ‘proper papers’  like the SMH, Canberra … Continue reading →

Inspired by my various experiments with Trove and QueryPic and following on from Jim Mussell and Bob Nicholson’s posts about the new Welsh newspapers online site, I thought I’d give it a go with my favourite topics of the moment, … Continue reading →

Happenstance is a wonderful thing. I was helping J out yesterday by googling for some nineteenth century sources about early steamship travel to Australia when I came across this study (DOI 10.2104.ha070006) which confirms what I had suspected from my earlier … Continue reading →

The telegraph network was the first internet, enabling a step change in the speed of communication and the spread of news. The telegraph was seen by the British as something to hold the empire together, especially as after the 1857 … Continue reading →

Playing with querypic can be addictive, as I did when trying to work out how quickly the news of Abraham Lincoln’s assasination spread to Australia, or more accurately the happenstance element of the other things that you find along the … Continue reading →

Inspired by having gone to see Lincoln last weekend I thought I’d do some digging to see how the news of Lincoln’s assasination was reported in Australia – more to see the impact of the telegraph link to the rest … Continue reading →

Yesterday it rained. In fact it rained a lot. It was also a Sunday. The previous day, we’d gone and bought some additional plants for the front yard to plant round the new car parking spot we’d had put in … Continue reading →

I’ll be 57 next month. That’s three years short of the earliest date I can sensibly retire. (Australia’s tax laws are such that while you can retire at 55, you don’t get any tax concessions until you are 60. The … Continue reading →

Newspapers, as in the form they’ve existed for the last two hundred years are dying. Killed by the internet, after all why pay for content when you can get it for free, and also by killed by  choice – it’s … Continue reading →