Monday, March 7, 2011

Issue # 3 is now available!

Inside History is for people passionate about Australian and New Zealand history and heritage, whether it's their family's ancestry, or in a broader social context. Our March/April issue celebrates our Irish ancestry, to coincide with the National Museum of Australia’s latest exhibition, Not Just Ned, opening on March 17. Read how to search for early Irish convicts, and learn about an emotional family reunion from the 1850s. Plus, you could win one of two double passes to the exhibition!

Now’s also the time to celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day. We’re featuring our favourite photo finds from Flickr of women who stood out from the crowd.

Anzac Day is not far away, and if you’re still searching the records for that elusive soldier, we have some terrific research advice. Plus, we look at how one family preserved their grandfather’s World War I postcards, there’s new research by Michael Flynn on the early life of Governor Arthur Phillip, records for tracing Indigenous ancestors in Victoria, an expert Q&A military special from the Boer War to WWII, and lots more!

Authors to look out for in Issue # 3:
  • UK genealogist :: Else Churchill
  • NZ genealogist :: Christine Clement
  • Australian genealogist :: Megan Gibson
  • Historian :: Michael Flynn
  • Archivist :: Sebastian Gurciullo - PROV
  • Australian genealogist :: Barbara Hall
  • Journalist :: Alice Johnson
  • Author :: Peter Macinnis
  • Military historian :: Neil Smith
  • Preservation expert :: Kay Soderlund
  • Australian genealogist :: Suzanne Voytas
  • NZ genealogist :: Mark Webster

Back issues of Issue # 3 are available online from Inside History :: www.insidehistory.com.au

Happy reading,
The Inside History team

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Wragge Labs :: Trove Dynamic Graphs

Thanks to Tim Sherratt {@wragge} we can now all get even more from the amazing Trove search engine, brought to us from the National Library.

Irish in Australia

Chinese in Australia

These calculations are based on the number of articles currently available through Trove. The totals were harvested using my TroveTools scraper and the lists of articles are generated using my unoffical Newspapers API. Comments or questions to @wragge