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The Rogue Compositor at The Times in 1882
This is the true story of a compositor working at The Times in 1882 who deliberately and maliciously inserted a ribald comment when setting the type for the newspaper. Who would have thought such a scandal could happen at such a newspaper? The Times of London, which began in 1785 and the archive of which…
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Wouter Looes and Jans Pelgrom: A Dutch Stake in ‘Australia Day’
Television advertisements in the lead up to Australia Day on 26 January 2017 have been telling the Australian people to celebrate the day “how you want to”. It is an interesting message from the Australian government. A typical Australian reaction to it might be to ask, if now we are to celebrate it how we want…
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Packing a Punch in Colonial Australia
With Australian Heritage Week nearly upon us (16 – 24 April), the following is a post concerning a particular perspective of Australian colonial history, being a perspective that can be researched in detail with Gale’s Primary Source Collections. It concerns Australia’s paradoxical relationship with England since 1788, as reflected within the pages of London’s Punch…
