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Sunday, January 8, 2012
The years 1977 to 1983 saw an explosion of musical creativity in inner city Sydney and Melbourne. Following the do-it-yourself r..
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Historians are starting to listen, tuning their ears to the sounds of the past to gain a new understanding of times gone by...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Hark! is an acoustic investigation into the sound world of Elizabethan England...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
In 1794, a young Scottish lawyer became the first political prisoner transported to Australia. His trial became one of the mos..
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Born in 1906, Ruth Blatt was 'a woman of the twentieth century'. She made her own choices on all its big issues: religion, sex a..
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In 1932, at the behest of the Murdoch and Packer newspapers, a journalist, a photographer, and a geologist travelled into centra..
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
What drove a 20-year-old woman to shoot dead an innocent stranger on a remote coastal road in Sydney's south in April 1959?
At ..
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Monday, November 14, 2011
A story about music, movement, and a method for combining them which became a cause celebre in Australia in the 1920s. The metho..
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
In late 1939, as the Germans occupied Warsaw, the city zoo became a sanctuary for hundreds of Polish Jews, who were hidden in t..
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Monday, October 31, 2011
People love to hate him, but when historian Alison Bashford stumbled across the 1803 edition of Malthus's `Essay on the Principl..
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The story of Canada's 'home children' is a piece of Canadian history that many would prefer to forget. From the mid 19th century..
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Monday, October 17, 2011
In 1952 artist Ian Fairweather built a raft from post-war rubble he found on Darwin's Dinah beach. Three aircraft drop tanks gav..
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Fasten your seatbelt, plug in your headset and settle in for the in-flight entertainment as we soar through the history of Austr..
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Captain Robert Falcon Scott -- the name conjures up the image of an English hero, walking to his death in the Antarctic after ha..
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Monday, September 26, 2011
In the wake of the Victorian goldrushes in the mid 19th century, the city of Melbourne boomed,and was transformed from a small t..
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