Louisa Lawson: ‘A Splendid Horse Woman’

Louisa’s riding days were curtailed when she married a gold prospector and had five children. But her skills with horses remained undiminished.

Louisa Lawson: Primary Sources

How is it that we know anything at all about Louisa Lawson? Or about her daughter Gertrude (pictured)? Let’s talk about the crucial primary sources…

Cursive Script

Is cursive script so-named because it is cursed? A brief discussion of the joys – and frustrations – of working with archival records written in cursive script.

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