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Book Review: Flood Country by Emily O’Gorman

26/02/2013 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

I would never have read this book if it wasn’t for twitter. Last year I came across the twitter stream of the University of Wollongong’s, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (@AUSCCER) and those of researchers who work at the Centre.  I have enjoyed these tweets about geography and the environment . One day I noticed their tweets about the Sydney launch of a … [Read more...] about Book Review: Flood Country by Emily O’Gorman

Disasters at the 2012 Australian Historical Association Conference

13/07/2012 by Yvonne Perkins 9 Comments

Day three of sessions at the Australian Historical Association conference started with disasters.  No, nothing awful befell the historians ensconced at the University of Adelaide. Rather, the subject of the plenary panel in the morning was ‘Disasters in Social and Cultural Perspective:  Impact, Response, Memory’. Archives, museums and libraries around Australia have done … [Read more...] about Disasters at the 2012 Australian Historical Association Conference

Know Your Database

17/04/2011 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

If you are interested in reading more about digital humanities, check out my other blog at http://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com Over the last week I finally got a chance to try out the tools that Wragge (aka Tim Sherratt) has devised to mine digitised historic Australian newspapers accessed through Trove. This post is about the results of applying his tools.  If you want to do … [Read more...] about Know Your Database

Mapping Australia’s Natural Disasters: Space and Time

04/02/2011 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

Yet another natural disaster is unfolding in Queensland with tropical cyclone Yasi crossing the coast of Far North Queensland.  There was not much sleep in our household on Wednesday night as we have family members who live right at the heart of the destructive forces of the cyclone.  I resumed this post at around 1 am Thursday morning.  Blogging while keeping an eye on Twitter … [Read more...] about Mapping Australia’s Natural Disasters: Space and Time

Saving Damaged Archives

28/01/2011 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

Five states have now been affected by floods in Australia in the last month. In my earlier posts both on this blog and On Line Opinion, I have followed the difficulties faced by archives and libraries in face of natural disasters and specifically focussed on the travails of the State Library of Queensland. Now, nearly two weeks later, we can get a better picture of what has … [Read more...] about Saving Damaged Archives

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Yvonne Perkins is a professional historian and launched Stumbling Through the Past in August 2010. Focusing on history, and Australian history in particular, posts include interviews, book reviews, news reports on conferences and reflective pieces.

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