Australian Stories

July 31, 2003 9:26 AM

Australian Stories from Australian museums about unusual aspects of Australian history : rabbits in Western Australia (where they came from, attempts - mostly failed - to control them); the National Quilt Register and quilt stories; fish; Chinese-Australians in rural Australia; indigenous stories from Napranum and Thursday Island; the trams of Ballarat; William Buckley, an escaped convict who lived in the bush for 33 years; Annie Russell of Brewarrina in northern NSW; the Benedictine Community of New Norcia in WA; an ambush at Broken Hill; Australian fashion; conserving a 17th century musical instrument.
Related :- Koori hidden histories and children's art in Victoria (as well as some oral histories from around the world); 100 years of Queensland Aboriginal life; Antarctica and pictorial collections from the State Library of NSW.
posted by plep (8 comments total)

Holy crap! Thanks, plep; I'll be reading these for hours.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:31 AM on July 31, 2003

Strewth!

*cough*
posted by cheaily at 9:44 AM on July 31, 2003

good on yer, plep!
posted by serafinapekkala at 10:08 AM on July 31, 2003

a great site showcasing a nation's museums. 's good! i don't think the u.s. has anything as all-inclusive. (but for just a second i thought the pictoral collections from the state library were NWS.)
posted by steef at 10:43 AM on July 31, 2003

The quilt link was really cool. If I could ever get my mom to learn how to use the net, she would enjoy that site a lot.
posted by littlegirlblue at 1:24 PM on July 31, 2003

Great collection of links, plep - thanks! I liked these 1865 aboriginal drawings. And I agree with littlegirlblue, the quilt link is quite nice.
posted by madamjujujive at 8:54 PM on July 31, 2003

Crikey! This is good.
posted by spazzm at 8:55 PM on July 31, 2003

Thanks plep.
Good effort.
posted by johnny7 at 9:23 PM on July 31, 2003