Sally Bloomfield
@presshistorian.bsky.social
Retired librarian now independent scholar. Early Tasmanian history, genealogy, convicts, printing publishing & newspapers in colonial Australia. Andrew Bent project
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Adding to my list of tools threatened by the NLA's decision to revoke my Trove API keys... The Trove Newspaper Harvester is a Python package I've been developing and maintaining since 2009. It's been cited multiple times in the research literature. Without an API key I can't undertake any […]
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February 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Adding to my list of tools threatened by the NLA's decision to revoke my Trove API keys... The Trove Newspaper Harvester is a Python package I've been developing and maintaining since 2009. It's been cited multiple times in the research literature. Without an API key I can't undertake any […]
I’m actually old enough to remember this
Consulting the card catalogue at the National Library of Australia in Canberra in its first months of operation in 1968 (photo by Photo by Max Dupain, National Library of Australia)
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 AM
I’m actually old enough to remember this
Am late sharing this link to my blog post on an important anniversary in the history of #newspapers and the #freedomofthepress in Australia. On 4 June 1824 #Hobart printer Andrew Bent defiantly shook off govt censorship from his paper
andrew-bent.life/2024/06/04/the-press-unshackled/
andrew-bent.life/2024/06/04/the-press-unshackled/
June 6, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Am late sharing this link to my blog post on an important anniversary in the history of #newspapers and the #freedomofthepress in Australia. On 4 June 1824 #Hobart printer Andrew Bent defiantly shook off govt censorship from his paper
andrew-bent.life/2024/06/04/the-press-unshackled/
andrew-bent.life/2024/06/04/the-press-unshackled/
Wonderful keynote from Pip Williams to kick off BSANZ conference - I loved this book and was fascinated by Pip’s account of how she researched and wrote it - and learnt so much about #bookbinding along the way
November 27, 2023 at 2:15 AM
Wonderful keynote from Pip Williams to kick off BSANZ conference - I loved this book and was fascinated by Pip’s account of how she researched and wrote it - and learnt so much about #bookbinding along the way
Nothing beats a good chancery document. Knew from notice in Ladies’ Magazine that my 4x ggparents were married abt Feb 1763 but could not find marriage. Turns out it happened “in Grateney” in Scotland - yes Gretna Green! #genealogy #chancery
November 13, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Nothing beats a good chancery document. Knew from notice in Ladies’ Magazine that my 4x ggparents were married abt Feb 1763 but could not find marriage. Turns out it happened “in Grateney” in Scotland - yes Gretna Green! #genealogy #chancery
Excellent article highlighting the significance of one of Tasmania’s earliest maps.
My latest article has a volume & issue number, so deserves another shout out. It's even open access!
I dug deep into how one map that was never duplicated managed to have such an impact on the dispossession & colonisation of Tasmania. 🗃️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I dug deep into how one map that was never duplicated managed to have such an impact on the dispossession & colonisation of Tasmania. 🗃️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Meehan’s Mapping of the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803–04
In 1804, the Irish convict-turned-surveyor James Meehan drafted a map (Monmouth 0) of the area around Britain’s new settlement in the colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania, Australia). This map de...
www.tandfonline.com
November 8, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Excellent article highlighting the significance of one of Tasmania’s earliest maps.