Australian Colonial Dance
Serendipity used to mean flicking through a dictionary and finding interesting and unusual words. But now it means stumbling across fascinating websites. Like this one: Australian Colonial Dance. It’s a lovely little blog about dance and music in colonial Australia, with interesting information and (crucially) bibliographic lists of sources. Of course my favourite post is the…
What were they thinking? The crazy cargo carried on Australia’s First Fleet
If you and about 1420 of your closest convict, marines and sailor friends were about to set off an expedition to Mars, what do you think you would take? That was the question faced by the British bureaucracy when provisioning the eleven vessels of the First Fleet in the late 1700s, before they set sail…