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Could 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.

How a biography brought me to family history

How writing an entry for a supplementary volume in the Australia Dictionary of Biography uncovered an extraordinary family story.

How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

The role of surveyors and cartographers throughout history has often been far from peaceful.

A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

Establishing national borders has long been an inexact science, writes Dr Imogen Wegman.

Hidden 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.

Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

Coordinator of the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania, Kate Bagnall, turns her attention closer to home.

Understanding colonial maps

Early Tasmanian land charts contain some fascinating details, if you know where to look.

Honouring the extinct, one thylacine at a time