The workplace is no place for horseplay

One of the most interesting things about researching the Port Arthur workshops is that it is all about how and where convicts worked. The deployment and management of coerced labour lay at the heart of the Australian convict’s ‘experience’. Convict...

Look Mum, I’m famous

We’ve hit the big time: 6 November 2021 – Radio 2GB Sydney, The Two Murrays (2:23:30 mark) 4 November 2021 – Radio MMM, Brian Carlton (28:35 mark) 30 October 2021 – ABC online, Georgie Burgess. All about coins, coins, coins 21 January 2021...

Hot off the press – Special Edition journal, 2020

I get to make a news announcement! How exciting. We’ve just put out a special edition journal for our Landscapes project. Below is the press release. If you cannot be bothered reading it, then the TLDR version is: we’re clever, we assembled a team of...

Hear me roar/meow

Yes, yes, this update is late. I decided that, instead of the usual Thursday update, I would go on holiday. I had a great time. Thanks for asking. In recompense, I present to you a VIDEO update. In low-definition, probably hard-to-ear, not-surround sound! You lucky...