GLAM is an evocative acronym referring to Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. I had booked an extra couple of days in Canberra after attending a digital humanities 'unconference' (called THAT Camp Canberra), so I GLAMmed it up and visited some of our national cultural resources. I had a ball, but there was a more serious motive behind it all. Aside from generally … [Read more...] about GLAMming it up – Canberra in Two Days!
Democracy
Musings on Democracy – Part 1
Write about democracy my supervisor said. I immediately felt overwhelmed. Democracy is such a big concept, developed over centuries since the Ancient Greeks. It is a also a loaded term - wars have been fought over it and it has been incorporated into political ideologies. The way to cut this task to size is to recognise that democracy is but a word. It only develops … [Read more...] about Musings on Democracy – Part 1
The Federal Election – 1910/2010
It was the 2010 Australian federal election that finally motivated me to create this blog, something I have wanted to do for several months. During the day of the election I was reading newspaper accounts of the federal election held 100 years ago in 1910. I have been in the habit of writing e-mails to my supervisor with odd snippets from my research and wrote one about the … [Read more...] about The Federal Election – 1910/2010