… Charlotte Waring Atkinson. And not only a name, but an extensive creative family history, connecting her to two of the nation’s celebrated contemporary … of a thread of creative women that runs through the history of their family. Hers is one of the great lost stories of Australian history: a tale …
… Wonderful Weather – Teachers’ Notes (478.92 KB) The Big Book of Australian History Image Author: Peter Macinnis ISBN: 9780642279026 Grades: 3 to 6 / … The Great Book-swapping Machine – Teachers’ Notes (68.65 KB) The Gum Family Finds Home Image Author: Tania McCartney Illustrator: Christina Booth ISBN: 9780642279255 Grades: F to 3 / Early Readers Document The Gum Family Finds Home – Teachers’ Notes (311.97 KB) Hello Image Author: National …
… We are all captivated by a great love story. Researching your family history can uncover unique tales of romance, secret marriages and forbidden … Genealogists microfilm collection, available in the Newspapers and Family History Zone. Banns of marriage were public announcements issued by …
… for storytelling, self-expression and honouring one’s heritage. Our Oral History collection includes recordings of original and traditional … in 1989, returning to Bolivia in 1995 before migrating again with his family in 2004. Fernando and his sons, Alejandro, Alfredo, Dio and Jay, play Bolivian folk music as a family band. The song Huari is an original composition. Hanap Ko (What Am I …
… Peter Rice interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Bringing them home oral history project Rice was employed as a social worker with the Department of … request articles, please speak to staff at the desk in the Newspapers and Family History Zone. To request information about the contents of a specific … request articles, please speak to staff at the desk in the Newspapers and Family History Zone. To request information about the contents of a specific …
… The Valente family were an old Portuguese landed family who lived in a seventeenth-century house at Oliveira de Aziméis, near … general collection. The main strengths of the collection are literature, history and religion, and there are also works on politics, topography, …
… continent far away. ‘Most, if not all of us, have a migration story in the family,’ said Dr Guy Hansen, Director of Exhibitions at the National Library. … parent born overseas or were, themselves, born overseas.’ ‘To understand history, we need to interrogate the evidence that has survived from the past. … of these powerful histories. These stories are an integral part of our family histories and by extension, our identities.’ Director-General of the …
… to 1976 edited their newsletter Australian Tradition . In 1969 she and her family spent a year travelling around Australia by caravan collecting … in many organisations, including the Colonial Bush Dance Society, the Oral History Association of Australia, the Friends of the Earth, Arts Action for … and personal papers in 2001 and received some further papers from her family in 2006. Description Oral History TRC 246 The collection comprises 172 …
… Gwenda Beed Davey (b. 1932) was born in Sydney, but her family moved to Melbourne when she was very young. She is a graduate of the … in 1987 when it agreed to supply her with equipment and tapes for her oral history of childhood project. The first tapes were received in 1988. In 1992 … end of the nineteenth century. The recordings deal with earliest memories, family relationships, houses, schools, games, hobbies, picnics, chores, the …
… says. ‘Prior to the Summer Scholarship I had had little experience with family history. Following a presentation from one of the family history librarians I have drawn on the significant number of family …
