The National Library of Australia's Trove incudes a searchable database of digitised newspapers. It's both very useful and also a great way to waste time.

I often 'just look something up quickly' and an hour later I'm deeply immersed in tracking the career of 1950s jam thieves.

I wrote a blog post about this here:

https://pennytangey.com.au/jam-and-outrage-in-east-melbourne/

#NewspaperArchives #trove #JamThieves #EastMelbourne