28 November 2021Could your ancestors' lives make a great historical novel?Writer and historian Dr Naomi Parry introduces us to the writing units in the Diploma of Family History, and the work of Mandy Gwan.
11 June 2021How a biography brought me to family historyHow writing an entry for a supplementary volume in the Australia Dictionary of Biography uncovered an extraordinary family story.
31 May 2021How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous peopleThe role of surveyors and cartographers throughout history has often been far from peaceful.
12 May 2021A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed FranceEstablishing national borders has long been an inexact science, writes Dr Imogen Wegman.
03 May 2021Hidden history of Chinese Australian women‘Your government makes us go’: the hidden history of Chinese Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws.
31 March 2021Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial AustraliaCoordinator of the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania, Kate Bagnall, turns her attention closer to home.
31 March 2021Understanding colonial mapsEarly Tasmanian land charts contain some fascinating details, if you know where to look.