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Sally Bloomfield

@presshistorian.bsky.social

Retired librarian now independent scholar. Early Tasmanian history, genealogy, convicts, printing publishing & newspapers in colonial Australia. Andrew Bent project

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Great news!

07.11.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Adding to my list of tools threatened by the NLA's decision to revoke my Trove API keys... The Trove Newspaper Harvester is a Python package I've been developing and maintaining since 2009. It's been cited multiple times in the research literature. Without an API key I can't undertake any […]

22.02.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is truly awful news. Hope you can somehow find a resolution so years of your valuable work don’t just go down the drain

23.02.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m actually old enough to remember this

12.12.2024 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Am late sharing this link to my blog post on an important anniversary in the history of #newspapers and the #freedomofthepress in Australia. On 4 June 1824 #Hobart printer Andrew Bent defiantly shook off govt censorship from his paper
andrew-bent.life/2024/06/04/the-press-unshackled/

06.06.2024 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonderful keynote from Pip Williams to kick off BSANZ conference - I loved this book and was fascinated by Pip’s account of how she researched and wrote it - and learnt so much about #bookbinding along the way

27.11.2023 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nothing beats a good chancery document. Knew from notice in Ladies’ Magazine that my 4x ggparents were married abt Feb 1763 but could not find marriage. Turns out it happened β€œin Grateney” in Scotland - yes Gretna Green! #genealogy #chancery

13.11.2023 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did wonder what you were on about - that makes more sense

10.11.2023 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent article highlighting the significance of one of Tasmania’s earliest maps.

08.11.2023 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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