We are witnessing a critical time in history. You should keep a diary | Paul Daley
The Covid-19 crisis has impelled me to record my impressions of this altered world. The joy of the archive is that one person’s dross is another’s gold
A decade ago when researching a book about Canberra the first thing I did was trawl the archives for narrative voices.
As I scoured the stacks of the National Library of Australia and the National Archives I was pleasantly surprised at how many people had penned their contemporaneous impressions of the city at various stages of its development, from the time of its inception as a concept in a vast sheep paddock.
What didn’t dawn on me then as it does today is that, no matter how
