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  1. Australian Flora – Eucalypts in focus

    On the 26th of January each year, new Australian citizens are given native saplings during Citizenship ceremonies around the country. Many of these saplings will be …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/01/25/australian-flora-eucalypts-in-focus

  2. Mrs Pankhurst, her daughter and the Prime Minister: the suffragettes and the Great War

    Emmeline Pankhurst to Billy Hughes

    The recently released movie Suffragette has introduced a new audience to the extraordinary history of the movement for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular its …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/01/12/mrs-pankhurst-her-daughter-and-the-prime-minister-the-suffragettes-and-the-great-war

  3. “Sugar and spice and all things nice…”

    Poster of two children, a boy knitting and a girl playing with a truck, with the caption "boys or girls, what does it matter all children should have the chance to find out what really interests them and what they really enjoy doing"

    Dr Sebastian Gurciullo, Assistant Archivist What are little boys made of? What are little boys made of? Slugs and snails And puppy-dogs’ tails That’s what little …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2015/10/05/sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice

  4. Fritz Duras: Australian ‘father’ of physical education and sports medicine

    Katrina Dean, University Archivist Fritz Duras’ pipe was recently transferred to the Archives along with his elegant signature block, a 1943 Workers Educational Association talk ‘Quotations …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2015/09/25/fritz-duras-father-of-physical-education-and-sports-medicine

  5. “sheets and a bed – glorious”

    “sheets and a bed – glorious.” So describes Wilberforce Newton’s delight in his hospital accommodations on 12th November 1915. Plagued by suspected bronchitis whilst serving with the …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2015/09/15/sheets-and-a-bed-glorious

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