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Jan Sheldrick is an independent scholar and historian and the author of Nature's line: a biography of George Goyder, to be published in 2008 by Wakefield Press. She lives in Melbourne and discovered Goyder through a fascination with the landscape and ruins north of the line. "Goyder's Line: the unreliable history of the line of reliable rainfall" (in Tim Sherrat, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds) A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2005, pp. 56-65) contains a summary of the understanding of the line which emer...

Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim

CBRLife = 堪 生 活  is now being received through legal deposit. Published by a group of young Chinese Australians, it is a ‘magazine for Chinese Australians living in Canberra, recording their lives and memories with connection of this City'. While many multicultural publishers are pleased to deposit their works with the Library, others can be less responsive to the Library’s standard ‘official’ approach. There was a good example recently with the acquisition of three volumes of Aodaliya hua ren nian jian = Yearbook of Chinese in Australia, which we believe to be the first Chine...

The Guardian at 200: A History of the Environment A fascinating two-part lecture that dissects the evolution of our relationship with climate language, and explores critical questions about where the conversation is heading, with Sverker Sörlin and Fiona Harvey. Online workshop Times: 6pm - 8.30pm (BST) Guardian Masterclasses - Fiona Harvey & Sverker Sörlin Photograph: Fiona Harvey & Sverker Sörlin Tue 20 Apr 2021 06.50 EDT Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 07.46 EDT In times of climate crisis, where we source our information and what we do with it can be critical. In this lecture-style wo...