Inspiring women: Louisa Lawson – women’s suffrage activist and publisher
Kate Carruthers The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
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Christmas in Paris
I like Paris in winter – there are not too many tourists and the queues to get into museums and galleries are much shorter. Of course, in 2010 western Europe…
Flanders mud is pretty bad too
Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from…
The Somme really does have sticky mud
I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors. It has been a very…
Traveling around Northern France – following tracks of Australians in World War 1
Since I am traveling around there is not always the time or the internet access to blog as often as I would like. Instead I’m sharing links to resources that…
Getting it Wrong? The Y2K bug revisited via @RNFutureTense
It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on)…
Privacy! Who the hell ever had privacy?
One question that I am often asked when speaking to groups about the digital revolution is “what about privacy?” This is usually in relation to social media and social networking.…
ANZAC – a New Zealand view
A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at…
ANZAC 2010 – Mapping our ANZACS
It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource. Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS. It provides a way…
Ada Lovelace Day 2010: call for women’s history #ald10
Today is Ada Lovelace day, the day that women around the world celebrate the achievements of women working in technology. While I could write about a woman in technology –…