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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 fiction in the newspapers of the time?
Mentioned in the episode
A Bush Race Meeting
A Ghostly Chapter
A Deaf Cook
His Terrifying Experience
The Last Night of the Camp
Find all of Roland Quiz’s stories here
Stories by Ivan Dexter
Author Vance Palmer
The stories in this episode were read by Perform Australia
Find the transcript of this episode here
Main story
The Story of the Three Photos
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Listen to 'The Three Photos', produced by students from Perform Australia
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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 them other than the iconic image of Ned Kelly?
Mentioned in episode
Search Trove for ‘Bushranger’
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Bushranger Martin Cash
Bushranger Alexander Pierce
Female Bushranger Jesse Hickman
Chinese Australian Bushranger Sam Poo
Main stories
How Ubique Robbed TheMorganville Company’s Safe
The Helpful Bushranger
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Listen to two stories of Australian bushrangers in full
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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 Department
Someone else thought the concept of toast water was interesting and attempted to recreate the recipe in this YouTube video
You can find a full transcript of the episode here.
Main stories
The Marvellous Island
Theft of a day
The Convalescence of Taffie Farndon
A Little Bushmaid
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Listen to four pieces of children's fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Listen to a full reading of 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe, republished in the Perth Daily News, February 15th, 1910.
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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 question and explore the ways our society changes?
Mentioned in the episode
The Flying Girl
Eleanor Dark
Featured stories
The Wickham Aeroplane by Francis Marlowe.
Find a full transcript of this episode here
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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 stories published by Orbiter -
Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories
Mythologised, memorialised then forgotten: a history of Australia’s bushfire reporting by Finn Morgan
Black Thursday bushfires
Main Stories
Black Thursday
Ria: A West Australian Story
To Be Continued in Trove
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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 is estimated that almost a quarter of the Victorian colony was burned. Howitt’s literary account is partly a revision of his own reporting that drew together different newspaper accounts to present a sensational report of unprecedented destruction. Howitt’s narrative is ultimately a tale of settler endurance that features protagonist Robert Patterson successfully navigating the difficulties of bush life. Nonetheless, he draws heavily on these journalistic accounts for both the narrative setting and the description of the fire itself.
Ria: A West Australian Story is notable as the only representation of a woman fighting a bushfire at the fire-front, rather than within the boundaried perimeter of the property or directly outside the homestead. This story presents the opportunity for discussion of gender norms and the gendered politics of fire-fighting
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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 and twist endings. What do these fears tell us of the mindset of the time?
Mentioned in the episode
The story that A Bush Story took cues from: The Ghost Upon the Rail by John Lang
Information on Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
Early Australian writers mentioned: Barbara Baynton and Marcus Andrew
A A Phillips, author of ‘The Cultural Cringe’ (1950)
Early American Gothic writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe
Women and the Bush by Kay Schafer
The Ghost of Bamboo Gully or The Headless Woman by Mark Antony
A Tasmainan Girl
To Be Continued in Trove
Main Stories
A Bush Ghost Story
The Storyteller: An Australian Ghost Story
An Australian Ghost Story
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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
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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 fiction in the newspapers of the time?
Mentioned in the episode
A Bush Race Meeting
A Ghostly Chapter
A Deaf Cook
His Terrifying Experience
The Last Night of the Camp
Find all of Roland Quiz’s stories here
Stories by Ivan Dexter
Author Vance Palmer
The stories in this episode were read by Perform Australia
Find the transcript of this episode here
Main story
The Story of the Three Photos
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Listen to 'The Three Photos', produced by students from Perform Australia
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Listen to two stories of Australian bushrangers in full
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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 them other than the iconic image of Ned Kelly?
Mentioned in episode
Search Trove for ‘Bushranger’
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Bushranger Martin Cash
Bushranger Alexander Pierce
Female Bushranger Jesse Hickman
Chinese Australian Bushranger Sam Poo
Main stories
How Ubique Robbed TheMorganville Company’s Safe
The Helpful Bushranger
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
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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 Department
Someone else thought the concept of toast water was interesting and attempted to recreate the recipe in this YouTube video
You can find a full transcript of the episode here.
Main stories
The Marvellous Island
Theft of a day
The Convalescence of Taffie Farndon
A Little Bushmaid
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 question and explore the ways our society changes?
Mentioned in the episode
The Flying Girl
Eleanor Dark
Featured stories
The Wickham Aeroplane by Francis Marlowe.
Find a full transcript of this episode here
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hear 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe performed in full.
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