BRETT SUTTON'S ANTECEDENTS? PANDEMICS BEFORE 1919? YES, THERE WERE EARLIER HEALTH CONCERNS WORLDWIDE AND HERE IN AUSTRALIA. This small, 13 page, 16.4x10.4cm stapled booklet was printed in Melbourne … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #19 Quarantine stations
CONSEQUENCES OF QUARANTINE, this early record of European quarantine at Port Jackson, including the burial ground. According to the Australian National Maritime Museum: Steel engraving titled … [Read more...]
Collecting the Curve
JOIN A SERIES OF SEMINARS ABOUT COLLECTING run by Museums Victoria As the numbers in Victoria reduce, we turn our thoughts to the next three-part lecture series, 'Collecting the Curve', which … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #7
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #3 reporting infectious diseases
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]