Ok, I could ask actual people I know, but I'll throw this out here instead.

I know there is a great scene-setting piece out there that I can use for week 1 of my cultural heritage unit, but cannot find it or remember the details.

- Under 20 pages
- Summarises the history of Western collecting institutions
- Opens up good first week (therefore also get to know you) conversations about why those institutions / collections / etc can be problematic.

Whatcha all got for me?

#histodons #history #CulturalHeritage #MuseumStudies #GLAM

New article alert, and it's even published fully open access thanks to a nifty agreement our library has with the publisher.

I do a deep dive into the earliest comprehensive European survey of the land around timtumili minanya – the Derwent River in lutruwita (Tasmania). This map was deeply influential on the shape the southern colony would take, but it was never (as far as I have been able to tell) copied in full or taken beyond the island. It is a curiosity, but more than that, it is a reminder of the importance of the most innocuous-looking documents.

'Meehan’s Mapping of the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803–04' in Australian Historical Studies: https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2023.2212690

#histodons #history #cartography #hgis #tasmania #academic #oa #article

Ok Family Historians and Handwriting Nerds, what do we think someone's name here is?

...case of my female assigned servant Anna ???? ....

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Histodons #History #Handwriting