MORE EPHEMERA OF SCHOOL DAYS - A University of Melbourne guide to sources on Victorian education advises that: From the 1872 Education Act until 1970 - the Victorian Education primary curriculum … [Read more...]
Back to school
EVEN IN 2020 ADVERTISING ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BUY STATIONERY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. We look back at exercise books. From 1953, from ESA member JY, this had the indispensable back cover with a … [Read more...]
The Queensland exercise book
ONCE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND YOU ARE A COLLECTOR, THE NEXT QUESTION IS ALWAYS - 'What do you collect?' Followed by the more difficult 'why do you collect that?' As we all know one of the best parts … [Read more...]
‘Port Melbourne postcards’ wins an award
ESA MEMBER PAT GRAINGER IS SECRETARY FOR THE PORT MELBOURNE HISTORICAL AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY, which recently won a Victorian Community History Award. Their Postcards from Port: An Audiovisual … [Read more...]
End of school year
END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR - SPEECH NIGHT, NO MORE UNIFORM, THROW AWAY THE TEXTBOOKS. We thought that recordings of the achievements of the little darlings in a play, dancing, singing or at speech … [Read more...]