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Show notes Bibliographer Carol Hetherington tells us her own tale of sleuthing through the To Be Continued database and Trove as she attempted to track down a mysterious author who wrote story after story…after story. How did she track down the enigmatically named Roland Quiz? And what do the stories behind the many pseudonyms found in Trove tell us about the people who wrote Australia’s fict...

Listen to 'The Three Photos', produced by students from Perform Australia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show notes The scientific bushranger? Have you ever heard of such a thing? In this episode we look at the unexpected Bushranger stories Associate Professor Maggie Nolan from the University of Queensland and Professor Ronan McDonald from Melbourne University found in the To Be Continued database. Bushrangers are an iconic part of Australian post colonial history but what do we really know about the...

Listen to two stories of Australian bushrangers in full  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode we dive into the extraordinary world of fiction for children with Associate Professor Kristine Moruzi from Deakin University. When did we first start publishing material for children? And what do the wild adventures involving shipwrecks, kidnapping and toast water tell us about what it meant to be a child in this time? Mentioned in the episode Mary Grant Bruce Princess Spinaway’s Depa...

Listen to four pieces of children's fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to a full reading of 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe, republished in the Perth Daily News, February 15th, 1910. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How much is our way of thinking shaped by technology?  Associate Professor Roger Osborne from James Cook University joins us to delve into a story about high flying spying antics that raises a lot of questions about how new technological possibilities become integrated into stories. As history unfolds how do we imagine new futures? And when some of these come to pass, how are stories used to...

In this episode we look at the devastation that bushfires have wrought upon the Australian landscape, and their effect on early colonial literature with PhD candidate, Finnuala Morgan. Our featured story - Black Thursday - profiles the first recorded 'major' bushfire in Victoria in 1851. Mentioned in the episode Charles Harpur’s 1851 poem called The Bush Fire A collection of Australian bushfire st...

This appendix episode features two bushfire stories from Australia's early colonial life. One of the earliest bushfire narratives, William Howitt’s short story Black Thursday , is an adaptation of his own reporting on the fire disaster of the same name. Black Thursday (February 7, 1851) was perhaps the first great fire disaster in settler Australian history. Although no official records exist, it...

In this episode we take a spooky turn as host Dr Rod Lamberts discusses ghosts, ghouls and the Australian gothic with PhD candidate Clare Burnett. Burnett tells us that there was a time people claimed Australia didn’t have enough ‘cultural infrastructure’ to write gothic stories- but they were very wrong! Our featured stories feature the biggest tropes of this genre: murders, ghosts, bushrangers a...

Listen along as three tales featuring ghosts, ghouls and Australian gothic are performed for the first time in a hundred years by talented voice actors. Find the newspaper articles with the stories here: A Bush Ghost Story The Storyteller: An Australian Ghost Story An Australian Ghost Story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show notes Bibliographer Carol Hetherington tells us her own tale of sleuthing through the To Be Continued database and Trove as she attempted to track down a mysterious author who wrote story after story…after story. How did she track down the enigmatically named Roland Quiz?  And what do the stories behind the many pseudonyms found in Trove tell us about the people who wrote Australia’s fic...

Listen to 'The Three Photos', produced by students from Perform Australia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to two stories of Australian bushrangers in full Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show notes The scientific bushranger? Have you ever heard of such a thing? In this episode we look at the unexpected Bushranger stories Associate Professor Maggie Nolan from the University of Queensland and Professor Ronan McDonald from Melbourne University found in the To Be Continued database. Bushrangers are an iconic part of Australian post colonial history but what do we really know about the...

Listen to four pieces of children's fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode we dive into the extraordinary world of fiction for children with Associate Professor Kristine Moruzi from Deakin University. When did we first start publishing material for children? And what do the wild adventures involving shipwrecks, kidnapping and toast water tell us about what it meant to be a child in this time? Mentioned in the episode Mary Grant Bruce Princess Spinaway’s Depa...

How much is our way of thinking shaped by technology?  Associate Professor Roger Osborne from James Cook University joins us to delve into a story about high flying spying antics that raises a lot of questions about how new technological possibilities become integrated into stories. As history unfolds how do we imagine new futures? And when some of these come to pass, how are stories used to...

Hear 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe performed in full. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we look at the devastation that bushfires have wrought upon the Australian landscape, and their effect on early colonial literature with PhD candidate, Finnuala Morgan. Our featured story - Black Thursday - profiles the first recorded 'major' bushfire in Victoria in 1851. Mentioned in the episode Charles Harpur’s 1851 poem called The Bush Fire A collection of Australian bushfire st...

This appendix episode features two bushfire stories from Australia's early colonial life. One of the earliest bushfire narratives, William Howitt’s short story Black Thursday , is an adaptation of his own reporting on the fire disaster of the same name. Black Thursday (February 7, 1851) was perhaps the first great fire disaster in settler Australian history. Although no official records exist, it...

Listen along as three tales featuring ghosts, ghouls and Australian gothic are performed for the first time in a hundred years by talented voice actors. Find the newspaper articles with the s tories here: A Bush Ghost Story The Storyteller: An Australian Ghost Story An Australian Ghost Story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we take a spooky turn as host Dr Rod Lamberts discusses ghosts, ghouls and the Australian gothic with PhD candidate Clare Burnett. Burnett tells us that there was a time people claimed Australia didn’t have enough ‘cultural infrastructure’ to write gothic stories- but they were very wrong! Our featured stories feature the biggest tropes of this genre: murders, ghosts, bushrangers a...

In this special introductory episode, we dive into where all the amazing stories in the series come from. Host Dr Rod Lamberts speaks with Australian National University’s Dr Katherine Bode about how the massive database that inspired this podcast came about and how her work as a historian has helped her understand the hopes and dreams for the future people had through the fiction they were readin...