http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com Delving into History... Tue, 21 May 2013 11:57:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/te-papa-the-national-museum-of-new-zealand/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/te-papa-the-national-museum-of-new-zealand/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 06:39:59 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=4053 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/te-papa-the-national-museum-of-new-zealand/feed/ 2 perkinsy New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa. DSCN9555 Te Papa Sign C http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pause-reflect-and-share-a-busy-april/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pause-reflect-and-share-a-busy-april/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:20 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=4026 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pause-reflect-and-share-a-busy-april/feed/ 8 perkinsy DSCN3147 Front classroom Blackboard wiped C Decorating my work - silver medal from Masters Australian National Swimming Championships. http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/kittys-war-by-janet-butler/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/kittys-war-by-janet-butler/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:30:24 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=4002 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/kittys-war-by-janet-butler/feed/ 14 perkinsy Kitty's War by Janet Butler, (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2013). The tents of the No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital where McNaughton worked on Lemnos. (Photo C02097 Australian War Memorial) Trolly on railway tracks carrying two men on stretches at No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Trois Arbres, c. 1917. Note the use of tents in this cold and wet region. (photo P00156.061 from the Australian War Memorial) Logo for Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/our-schools-and-the-war-the-victorian-education-dept-wwi/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/our-schools-and-the-war-the-victorian-education-dept-wwi/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:00:02 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3990 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/our-schools-and-the-war-the-victorian-education-dept-wwi/feed/ 4 perkinsy Book Cover of 'Our Schools and the War' Logo for Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/the-dream-of-a-century-the-griffins-in-australias-capital/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/the-dream-of-a-century-the-griffins-in-australias-capital/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:02:13 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3973 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/the-dream-of-a-century-the-griffins-in-australias-capital/feed/ 7 perkinsy colour map of the proposed city of Canberra. Drawing of eucalyptus trees on sepia background. Salmon coloured building, several stories high built on the side of a hill. http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/new-year-some-reflections/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/new-year-some-reflections/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:39:57 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3947 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/new-year-some-reflections/feed/ 2 perkinsy Sydney Baha'i Temple Cover of Book, Advancement of Women by Janet & Peter Khan. Cover of the book, Prophet's Daughter by Janet Khan Book cover of Recollections by Merle Heggie http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/glimpses-of-a-young-woman-in-laboratories-1959-1963/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/glimpses-of-a-young-woman-in-laboratories-1959-1963/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:37:56 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3928 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/glimpses-of-a-young-woman-in-laboratories-1959-1963/feed/ 2 perkinsy Log tables: an essential tool for scientists in the era before cheap calculators and computers. Slide rule http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/quietly-pushing-barriers-aside/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/quietly-pushing-barriers-aside/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:07:46 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3913 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/quietly-pushing-barriers-aside/feed/ 7 perkinsy Every student attending Hamilton High School photographed standing outside school building in 1953 http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/book-review-flood-country-by-emily-ogorman/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/book-review-flood-country-by-emily-ogorman/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:15:58 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3866 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/book-review-flood-country-by-emily-ogorman/feed/ 0 perkinsy Author, Emily O'Gorman holding her book, Flood Country My mother remembers flooding along the Murray when she lived there in the late 1950s. This scrap of newspaper from that period demonstrates a local community grappling with the knowledge that they need to plan for floods. Map reproduced with permission of Discover Murray River - Official Murray River Travel Website. The Snowy Mountains Scheme built after WWII is the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia. Water from this project feeds into the Murray and Murrimbidgee Rivers. This 1965 brochure describes the problem of drought but not flooding. Logo for Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012 http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-popularity-of-memoirs/ http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-popularity-of-memoirs/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:48:20 +0000 perkinsy http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/?p=3858 Continue reading →]]> http://stumblingpast.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-popularity-of-memoirs/feed/ 3 perkinsy Logo for Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012