I’m looking forward to it!

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading this!

My housemate is short sighted, but not drastically so, and will often go about without her glasses to have a soft focus world!

He says we need to make these changes for ‘national security’ - because degrees that teach critical thinking and understanding how the world works are not at all important for jobs or national security! (Heavy sarcasm). Let alone learning for the sake of learning!

Ha!

I wrote it in 2005 (and currently having a moment about Honours being twenty years ago!) but knew it was my topic in December 2004, so went to Ballarat for the 150th anniversary commemoration, where there was nearly a punch up between some miners and some communists about whose story it was!

My honours thesis was on how Eureka had been remembered/commemorated, and my overall argument was that there were a range of reasons why people took part in the event, which made it easy for different groups to take what they wanted from the story and claim it as theirs.

3. Historians make for very versatile researchers in non-academic employment but can annoy people by always asking to look at the original sources

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