🤔 Take "The World Remade" trail at the Australian National Maritime Museum and discover over 23 objects and displays that explore WWII and its lasting impact on Australia. Pick up your free brochure at the front desk #TheWorldRemade #WWIIHistory #AustralianHistory #MuseumTrail #globalmuseum

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

"When echidna mothers nurse their young, known as puggles, the microbiome of their pouch changes to protect their babies" 🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/... They're a weird lot alright - like their Platypus cousins 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/19-platypus-... #Platypus #Echidna

All this anxiety about AI. Things will calm down when we limit its use to tasks it's well suited to. Like opening Pod Bay doors.

Love perusing a good map? www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-... The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no cost – five volumes of The History of Cartography. What a tempting rabbit hole! 😍 #history #cartography #mapmaking #maps #historicalmaps

Here’s a cute animation for the next time you have time to kill. Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Oh, the pretty Cambrian…🤩 🔗 www.openculture.com/2023/12/4-5-...

"From the Big Bogan to Larry the Lobster, why do towns build Big Things?" Well I for one will welcome our crusty red new overlords! 😉 theconversation.com/from-the-big... #BigThings #Australia #AustralianHistory #AustralianIcons

Just an Antarctica-centric map of the world to mess with your head. Source: buff.ly/2RBhyVP

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out www.openculture.com/2025/02/jane... #Literature #History #JaneAusten

New Disaster Response Service for NSW Cultural Collections The Collections Response and Safe Storage Unit is here to protect NSW’s cultural heritage in times of crisis.

Superb fairy-wren personality traits can be heard in their songs, study finds www.abc.net.au/news/science...

This sounds like fun. :-) From the State Library of Victoria: www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/mou... Want a refresher on the story? www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/1-the-kelly-... #AustralianHistory #OzHistory #History #KellyGang #NedKelly

How does #Wikipedia stay reliable? Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight explains how the #WaybackMachine helps preserve verifiable references when sources vanish from the web. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/u8MAJ76sawU #LibraryAdvocacy #InternetArchive #NationalLibraryWeek

Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour! 🎧https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/🎧

Matthew Flinders, recovered from his latest ordeal, sets off back to England…. But the journey will take a lot longer than anticipated. 🫣 The final episode available today. 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/75-bass-flin... 🎧 #Flinders #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist #Australia

Can’t wait to find time for a deep dive into this site 🙂

Popular Podcasts 2024 These were the 100 most popular podcasts on Great Australian Pods in 2024. These podcast entries piqued the most visitor interest and attracted the greatest number of page views. Supported by Lenny.fm www.greataustralianpods.com/popular-podc... #AusPods #Podcasts #Australia

😁 Too good, just have to share…. www.instagram.com/reel/DCxG5NJ...

this the horse btw

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

These should be plastered everywhere.

[sees toddler having complete fucking meltdown on the sidewalk] i mean, she's not wrong.

A rare and delicate survival from Bronze Age Denmark! A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity. From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology #AncientBluesky🏺

Wow! I had no idea. 🤓 Nice work google earth spotter & Matej Lipar & assocs 🔗 theconversation.com/a-man-scouri... #tornado #outback #FreakyNature #Australia #science

Rainy day currawong

Totally excellent (14 min) chat between @michellearrow.bsky.social and @nickbryantoz.bsky.social on studying history in Australia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871 www.openculture.com/2024/03/6000...

Lighthouses of Australia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

The final episode on Bass & Flinders is in production but claiming Flinders coined the term Australia first might be controversial? 🤔 theconversation.com/putting-aust... #history #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders #Australia #Maps

A red kangaroo family in for an early drink on a freezing morning at Mosquito Dam, Mount Willoughby Station, South Australia. In my camo gear, sitting on the opposite side of the dam, they had no idea I was there.

Optimism

Bwahahaha 😆

A common sea monster that is often found on nautical maps are physetera or spouters. They attack ships by vomiting or spouting water into the ship, causing it to sink. You can find these beasties on so many old maps. It’s like “Where’s Waldo” for cartography nerds! 🗃️📜 #maritimehistory

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Going through the stack of old magazines this archaeology article grabbed me. 😎 www.theguardian.com/science/2024... #history #archaeology #science

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Flinders successfully completes the 1st half of his circumnavigation of Aus, though he may have missed the odd feature on the way. Bass was not so lucky on his trading venture. 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/73-bass-flin... 🎧 #AustralianHistory #OzHist #HistoryPodcast #Bass #Flinders

✨Brand New Episode - The Plebeians Push into Power✨ We jump into the year 400 BCE. This is the year we've been waiting for. Drum roll, it's time for a plebeian break-through into power! #AncientRome #History #Podcast partialhistorians.com/2024/08/22/e...

www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #AustralianHistory #OzHist #KellyCountry #UNESCO #Beechworth #NedKelly

Bass & Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemens Land & "petticoat action" followed! 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/72-bass-flin... 🎧 #AustralianHistory #History #Bass #Flinders #Explorers #OzHist #HistoryPodcast

There's a fun eel mention in Henry IV, when Falstaff slags young Hal's aggressively slight stature: “’Sblood, you starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stockfish!” ‘Cause that’s how you speak truth to skinny power, damn it. 1/4 🗃️🧪

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07... #AustralianHistory #OzHist #Flinders

Ep71 - Part 2 - Bass & Flinders arrive in NSW with grand plans to “explore more of the country than any of [their] predecessors”. 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/71-bass-flin... 🎧 #Bass #Flinders #Explorers #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #OzHist

#MosaicMonday The Villa of the Birds mosaic is something to behold. There are 33 individual birds represented, each with their own frame. Just stunning! 📸 Frédéric Lecut 🏺AncientBluesky

More monotreme news! 🤩 
theguardian.com/australia-news... 
#Monotreme #Platypus #Echidna #Paleontology #AustralianHistory

www.abc.net.au/news/science... We talked about our fascinating Platypus in Ep 19 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/19-platypus-... 🎧 But the controversy continues it seems…. 🤓 #platypus #AustralianFauna #AustralianHistory #AustralianAnimals #monotreme

We're beginning a short series on the big guns of charting mainland Aus & Tasmania - yep, Bass & Flinders.
 This Ep we look at their backgrounds to see what drew them to NSW.
 🎧 www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/70-bass-flin... 🎧 
#Bass #Flinders #AustralianHistory #OzHist #History