David Harris has found something new to explore: Whenever tinned or canned goods were marketed, the easiest or best way of opening them has led to a wide range of innovative designs. Whether contents … [Read more...]
GET ORGANISED – CATALOGUING WITH “THE COLLECTING BUG”
This article provides an overview of The Collecting Bug, a cloud-based software package specifically designed to help collectors cataloguing, sharing and managing their collections online. Using a … [Read more...]
Vale John Chapman
Many ESA members will have known Dr. John Chapman who died on 30 June 2020. Edwin Jewell wrote a lovely tribute to John, we quote Ed: I was a late starter to more serious collecting, in about my … [Read more...]
Theatre ephemera
This wonderful new book ‘HANKY PANKY: THE THEATRICAL ESCAPADES of ERNEST C ROLLS’ by Frank Van Straten (Readings & others, hard back $49.95), is full of Australian theatre posters and pictures of … [Read more...]
Coming out in the 70s
UNTIL 30 MAY 2021, IF YOU ARE IN SYDNEY YOU CAN VISIT A MANY DIMENSIONAL EXHIBITION ABOUT when gay and lesbian life went public in the 1970s. Speaking up and standing out, gay men and women took to … [Read more...]