Richmond history in the library: babies, bands and dodgy librarians
Original doors from the Richmond Town Hall Library, Bridge Road – now installed at Richmond Library, Church Street. I co-host In Those Days with Christina Adams. In the podcast we read digitised newspapers from Trove, the National Library of Australia’s digital repository. The premise of In Those Days is that I’m a library nerd who… Read Post »
The Language of Stamps
While researching a podcast episode with the team from Stamps Aren’t Cool I became aware of something called the language of stamps. This language was mentioned in an article about a divorce court hearing in 1931. The husband submitted as evidence a stamp his wife had placed on a piece of paper at a rakish… Read Post »
Neighbox
Brace yourselves. There’s a lot of information in this next sentence. My friend Vaya, who hosts the comedy recap podcast Neighbuzz, told me I should enter a competition to win tickets to a preview screening of Fox FM presenter Fifi Box’s first episode on Neighbours at the Jam Factory on Chapel Street. I thought it was a… Read Post »