Nancy Cushing
@ncushing12.bsky.social
Environmental historian on Durramuragal and Awabakal Country. 🐨🦘🍁. University of Newcastle. Coral Thomas Fellow, 2024-25, State Library NSW. On execs of OzAHA and AANZ Environmental History Network.
Thanks Libby. I didn’t realise it was out.
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thanks Libby. I didn’t realise it was out.
It ruins — everything.
April 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It ruins — everything.
These are fire insurance maps. They record whatever was on the block including number of storeys, building materials, business type and owner’s name. Lots of fascinating insights from them about dispersed and clustered uses, eg.
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdd0yByqO
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdd0yByqO
April 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
These are fire insurance maps. They record whatever was on the block including number of storeys, building materials, business type and owner’s name. Lots of fascinating insights from them about dispersed and clustered uses, eg.
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdd0yByqO
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdd0yByqO
I agree, Lisa. Both sides of the conversation were engaging, informative and heartfelt.
April 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I agree, Lisa. Both sides of the conversation were engaging, informative and heartfelt.
They could always play hockey (well, ok, they would have had to invent it) but I wanted to share this photo of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment hockey team awaiting transport to England in 1917, and especially, their adorable sweaters. Some skilful women behind them, I think.
January 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
They could always play hockey (well, ok, they would have had to invent it) but I wanted to share this photo of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment hockey team awaiting transport to England in 1917, and especially, their adorable sweaters. Some skilful women behind them, I think.
It contributes to making the case for why the 26th of January, the day on which the colony of New South Wales was officially launched, is not a day of celebration but a day of mourning for the continent's First Peoples.
![Photograph from 1938 of a group of Aboriginal men, women and children with a sign saying Aborigines Conference/ Day of Mourning/ Aborigines Only [final word obscured]. One holds a sign saying Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:chfslrwhe5bmrqujyma6smud/bafkreic7rbbruw4f6l767gs4fxvbbebbiedwfec6pehtjog37ck3y5djsy@jpeg)
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It contributes to making the case for why the 26th of January, the day on which the colony of New South Wales was officially launched, is not a day of celebration but a day of mourning for the continent's First Peoples.
Lyndall's research and especially the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmass... helped to extend the understanding of Australia's violent colonial history.
Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1780 to 1930, v3
c21ch.newcastle.edu.au
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Lyndall's research and especially the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmass... helped to extend the understanding of Australia's violent colonial history.