Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social
Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
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Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social
· Nov 11
These skies are looking mighty busy, greetings to you all.
I'm a historian based in nipaluna lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania) where I flit between colonial, spatial, environmental & other histories to try to understand how colonisers interacted with place.
And I adore old manuscript maps, like this.
I'm a historian based in nipaluna lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania) where I flit between colonial, spatial, environmental & other histories to try to understand how colonisers interacted with place.
And I adore old manuscript maps, like this.
Now its the time for the aurora to visit these nocturnal parts.
Its 10:30pm and the beach has the gentle hum of a few small groups watching the lights, while the waves sway back and forth in time with the sky's dance.
Its 10:30pm and the beach has the gentle hum of a few small groups watching the lights, while the waves sway back and forth in time with the sky's dance.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Now its the time for the aurora to visit these nocturnal parts.
Its 10:30pm and the beach has the gentle hum of a few small groups watching the lights, while the waves sway back and forth in time with the sky's dance.
Its 10:30pm and the beach has the gentle hum of a few small groups watching the lights, while the waves sway back and forth in time with the sky's dance.
Where are my old-ish French handwriting readers?
How did Freycinet's people describe the landscape around today's New Norfolk in Tasmania? I have bits and pieces, but some words are defeating me.
Full map available from: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2323...
#history #archives
How did Freycinet's people describe the landscape around today's New Norfolk in Tasmania? I have bits and pieces, but some words are defeating me.
Full map available from: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2323...
#history #archives
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Where are my old-ish French handwriting readers?
How did Freycinet's people describe the landscape around today's New Norfolk in Tasmania? I have bits and pieces, but some words are defeating me.
Full map available from: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2323...
#history #archives
How did Freycinet's people describe the landscape around today's New Norfolk in Tasmania? I have bits and pieces, but some words are defeating me.
Full map available from: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2323...
#history #archives
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful.
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
tacinc.com.au/map/map
(Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)
I think we can agree this conference catering is putting all others to shame.
This is what happens when a conference is at Tasmania's favourite eccentric museum, MONA.
This is what happens when a conference is at Tasmania's favourite eccentric museum, MONA.
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I think we can agree this conference catering is putting all others to shame.
This is what happens when a conference is at Tasmania's favourite eccentric museum, MONA.
This is what happens when a conference is at Tasmania's favourite eccentric museum, MONA.
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
We are reaching the end of semester and the due date for final assignments.
I have one phrase running permanently through my head, threatening to come out.
I have one phrase running permanently through my head, threatening to come out.
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
We are reaching the end of semester and the due date for final assignments.
I have one phrase running permanently through my head, threatening to come out.
I have one phrase running permanently through my head, threatening to come out.
Today I filmed my last lectures in our wonderful media studio.
I don't know what we will have in our new building, but it seemed only right to mark this occasion with all due solemnity.
I don't know what we will have in our new building, but it seemed only right to mark this occasion with all due solemnity.
October 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Today I filmed my last lectures in our wonderful media studio.
I don't know what we will have in our new building, but it seemed only right to mark this occasion with all due solemnity.
I don't know what we will have in our new building, but it seemed only right to mark this occasion with all due solemnity.
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
Me reading what was on a block of land in 1826: "A small idiot only on this allotment."
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Me reading what was on a block of land in 1826: "A small idiot only on this allotment."
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
Me reading what was on a block of land in 1826: "A small idiot only on this allotment."
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Me reading what was on a block of land in 1826: "A small idiot only on this allotment."
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
Sure, that tracks.
Oh, it's hut, not idiot. Well, it was the colonies, there was a high chance of an idiot on the allotment too.
#history 🗃️
My cranky bus driver may have been driving like the road was out to get him, but at least he was blasting ABC Classic so I could get motion sick to the soothing tones of Gabriel's Oboe and then be roused back to jollity by a brass marching band.
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
My cranky bus driver may have been driving like the road was out to get him, but at least he was blasting ABC Classic so I could get motion sick to the soothing tones of Gabriel's Oboe and then be roused back to jollity by a brass marching band.
Two weeks ago I was writing an intro lecture about tech being hungry for data & desperately scraping the internet.
This week: 19th century science was hungry for data & desperately searching for bodies.
I guess, spot the difference between an AI corpus and an old ethnology museum?
This week: 19th century science was hungry for data & desperately searching for bodies.
I guess, spot the difference between an AI corpus and an old ethnology museum?
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Two weeks ago I was writing an intro lecture about tech being hungry for data & desperately scraping the internet.
This week: 19th century science was hungry for data & desperately searching for bodies.
I guess, spot the difference between an AI corpus and an old ethnology museum?
This week: 19th century science was hungry for data & desperately searching for bodies.
I guess, spot the difference between an AI corpus and an old ethnology museum?
You're all going to the wrong archives. My local is always amusing. Just last week I was treated to:
Gossip about why X has been so grumpy lately.
Whispers about a fab historian (umm, me, tucked out of sight).
And Mr Ye Olde Sailor: "It's a yellow notebook, don't you know it, can't you find it?"
Gossip about why X has been so grumpy lately.
Whispers about a fab historian (umm, me, tucked out of sight).
And Mr Ye Olde Sailor: "It's a yellow notebook, don't you know it, can't you find it?"
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
August 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
You're all going to the wrong archives. My local is always amusing. Just last week I was treated to:
Gossip about why X has been so grumpy lately.
Whispers about a fab historian (umm, me, tucked out of sight).
And Mr Ye Olde Sailor: "It's a yellow notebook, don't you know it, can't you find it?"
Gossip about why X has been so grumpy lately.
Whispers about a fab historian (umm, me, tucked out of sight).
And Mr Ye Olde Sailor: "It's a yellow notebook, don't you know it, can't you find it?"
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
Everyday Heritage team member Dr Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...
August 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Everyday Heritage team member Dr Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...
The worst thing students can usually think to say about me in surveys is that I'm "too enthusiastic" and "have the vibe of a kindergarten teacher".
Well, I challenge them to find any such vibes in my outfit today.
Well, I challenge them to find any such vibes in my outfit today.
August 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The worst thing students can usually think to say about me in surveys is that I'm "too enthusiastic" and "have the vibe of a kindergarten teacher".
Well, I challenge them to find any such vibes in my outfit today.
Well, I challenge them to find any such vibes in my outfit today.
And they will ask, 'Were there any signs?'
August 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
And they will ask, 'Were there any signs?'
This morning, while internally thinking about how colonists celebrated someone I said aloud "she was apparently the first woman to walk to X", immediately erasing all First Peoples who'd been there before.
The whole class called me out & I was so proud of them, but also mortified.
Ahh, teaching.
The whole class called me out & I was so proud of them, but also mortified.
Ahh, teaching.
August 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This morning, while internally thinking about how colonists celebrated someone I said aloud "she was apparently the first woman to walk to X", immediately erasing all First Peoples who'd been there before.
The whole class called me out & I was so proud of them, but also mortified.
Ahh, teaching.
The whole class called me out & I was so proud of them, but also mortified.
Ahh, teaching.
Reposted by Imogen Wegman
It is 2025, and someone *now* is preparing to publish an 1850s pastoralist’s diary *editing out* all the coded bits where he describes murdering Yamatji people.
In 2025.
But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.
In 2025.
But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It is 2025, and someone *now* is preparing to publish an 1850s pastoralist’s diary *editing out* all the coded bits where he describes murdering Yamatji people.
In 2025.
But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.
In 2025.
But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.
Me, absolutely hopeless in the music round of a pub quiz, catching up on the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs and surprising myself by knowing every single song.
Then spoiling it by needing to double check the artist of this song and discovering it's Kylie or Midnight Oil.
Then spoiling it by needing to double check the artist of this song and discovering it's Kylie or Midnight Oil.
Countdown #1 to #100 - Hottest 100 Australian Songs - triple j
These are the songs you voted from #1 to #100 in triple j's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
www.abc.net.au
July 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Me, absolutely hopeless in the music round of a pub quiz, catching up on the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs and surprising myself by knowing every single song.
Then spoiling it by needing to double check the artist of this song and discovering it's Kylie or Midnight Oil.
Then spoiling it by needing to double check the artist of this song and discovering it's Kylie or Midnight Oil.
While I wait for my university's overzealous spam filters to let my verification email through so my signature is approved, I will encourage you all to sign this petition.
openpetition.org/!repealjrg
openpetition.org/!repealjrg
July 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
While I wait for my university's overzealous spam filters to let my verification email through so my signature is approved, I will encourage you all to sign this petition.
openpetition.org/!repealjrg
openpetition.org/!repealjrg
When considering what toys to put into the household of a three year old who lives in an apartment block, why would "karaoke machine" ever even enter the equation?
July 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
When considering what toys to put into the household of a three year old who lives in an apartment block, why would "karaoke machine" ever even enter the equation?
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Can any #skystorians 🗃️ play with me: are these different people's handwritings? I think 1 & 4 are the same person but want to double check. And I'm wondering if #3 is the same person as 1 & 4.
#2 seems to be a different person from #1, right?
#2 seems to be a different person from #1, right?
July 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can any #skystorians 🗃️ play with me: are these different people's handwritings? I think 1 & 4 are the same person but want to double check. And I'm wondering if #3 is the same person as 1 & 4.
#2 seems to be a different person from #1, right?
#2 seems to be a different person from #1, right?
Also I catch the ferry so I can start my day like this.
Winters in Tasmania are truly the worst.
Winters in Tasmania are truly the worst.
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Also I catch the ferry so I can start my day like this.
Winters in Tasmania are truly the worst.
Winters in Tasmania are truly the worst.