Edition 19, 2022

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Uncovering the past

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Heritage News
Known for its links to Victoria’s union movement and the Labor Party, Melbourne’s Curtin Hotel is a historically important building for the city. The hotel famously hosted Bob Hawke’s second office while he was the Australian Council of Trade Unions
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What’s That Thingamajig?
This contraption, known as a glove stretcher, was used at Simpson’s Gloves Pty Ltd around 1930. Resembling a clothing peg, this glove stretcher is 35 centimetres long, made of pale, varnished wood, and features a metal spring hinge to help clamp open
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Welcome To The 19th Edition Of Traces!
Hello and welcome to edition 19 of Traces! We are positively hurtling through the year yet again, and by the time you sit down to read this edition, the results of the 2022 Australian federal election will have been announced. Election time is always
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Cascade Brewery
First established in 1832 by Englishman and civil engineer Peter Degraves, Cascade Brewery was a leader among Tasmania’s breweries. Degraves began his career as an expert in drilling for water, and eventually migrated to Tasmania, then known as Van D
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Editor in Chief: Giulia Heppell Consulting Editor: Eden Cox Designer: Abby Schmidt Contributors (in order of first appearance): Harrison Christian, Peter Baker, Roy Maloy, Dr Peter Hobbins, Margaret Anderson, Michael Veitch, Tara Oldfield, Dr Amanda
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Men Without Country
On the morning of 28 April 1789, chaos broke out on the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty as she sailed past the Tongan islands on her return voyage from Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate, and a group of followers
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The Drop Of A Brick
In April 1934, the English Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry, third son of King George V and Queen Mary, was handed the task of an imperial tour of Australia and New Zealand by default. Henry’s younger brother, George, told his parents that he was too
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The forgotten Dja Dja Wurrung queen
As a proud Dja Dja Wurrung man and historian, I am fascinated by the history of my Aboriginal ancestors. The result of colonisation is that so much, if not almost all, of our history before the 1830s was lost forever. Dja Dja Wurrung Country lies in
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Gilding the Lily
The log of HMS brig Lily at first seems straightforward. Spanning January to May 1855, its concise entries outline a voyage from Melbourne to Spithead, a Royal Navy base on the south English coast. Punctuating the navigational and meteorological data
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The Nightman
Early Melbourne lacked an underground sewerage system. Instead, residents disposed of their toilet waste, or ‘nightsoil’, in a cesspit – a simple hole in the ground lined with bricks. Cesspits were not ideal. Few were completely watertight, allowing
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The Homecoming Hero
Since September 1939, William ‘Bill’ Garing had seen plenty of combat flying. If he’d wanted it, he could reasonably have expected to be granted permission to sit the remainder of the war out. But for the ambitious and pugnacious Bill – whose moniker
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Victoria’s Hidden Histories Revealed
In Victoria, every year on 1 January, hundreds of Victorian Government records are made public for the first time as part of Public Record Office Victoria’s annual Section 9 record openings. Under Section 9 of the Public Records Act 1973, files of a
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Threads Of A Life
Pages from my grandfather’s photo album, with photographs carefully placed, have no captions to capture their significance. His dusty old service records, their edges eaten by silverfish, no longer have valuable context. When his house was sold, I co
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A Short Biography Of ELIZABETH MARSDEN
Eliazbeth was born on 12 July 1772 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, the only daughter of Thomas Fristan and Elizabeth Tweed, the niece of the English naval Admiral, Sir Clowdisley Shovell. Samuel Marsden was also a Yorkshire local and, during his youth,
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Slang Of The Talkies
Hal Carleton of the Prince Edward Theatre in Sydney reassured an apprehensive public in January 1929, stating that, ‘Everything is being done to eliminate any trace of American accent in “talkies”.’ Talkies were an overnight sensation. The ability to
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What’s New Online?
• Queensland Funeral Home and Burial Records: 633,015 records. • Land Ownership Records: 338,074 records• Mauthausen Death Book: 38,206 records. • Alberta, Calgary Burial Records: 145,174 records• Manitoba, Winnipeg Burial Records: 118,637 records• M
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Capturing The Past
Shane, what attracts you to abandoned places? A childhood love of ghost stories sparked my initial interest in abandoned places; I was fascinated by haunted houses, and any spaces that were dark and spooky. With age, this passion became much more phi
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