Cathy Pryor, curator and postgraduate student in Museum and Heritage Studies at Deakin University, looks at a name change reflecting a new awareness about the old names for … [Read more...]
Wattle Day
WHAT IS WATTLE DAY? The word from our Australian Parliamentary website is: Although wattle was associated with Australia from very early days, its significance increased around the time of … [Read more...]
It’s a set
SINGLE ITEMS CAN BE GREAT, flyer, trifolded, 14x8cm,soliciting your donation with accounts of the work of the Red Cross in 1958. But when it comes with a covering letter (three times the size … [Read more...]
Bookmarks
THE ESA JOURNAL WAS POSTED OUT IN JUNE 2021, AND IN IT EACH MEMBER WILL FIND A BOOKMARK. The bookmarks are courtesy of the Estate of Amy Turner and via ESA member Elizabeth Willis. if you have't … [Read more...]
Records of women’s work
YOU CAN WATCH ONLINE THE AMERICAN EPHEMERA SOCIETY'S CONFERENCE HELD ONLINE IN MARCH 2021. Go to this link. There is a rather simple guide to find your way between talks. There is some fabulous … [Read more...]
Theatre ephemera
This wonderful new book ‘HANKY PANKY: THE THEATRICAL ESCAPADES of ERNEST C ROLLS’ by Frank Van Straten (Readings & others, hard back $49.95), is full of Australian theatre posters and pictures of … [Read more...]
Coming out in the 70s
UNTIL 30 MAY 2021, IF YOU ARE IN SYDNEY YOU CAN VISIT A MANY DIMENSIONAL EXHIBITION ABOUT when gay and lesbian life went public in the 1970s. Speaking up and standing out, gay men and women took to … [Read more...]
Michael Gudinski
MEDIA REPORTED ON ALL THE THOUGHTFUL DETAIL THAT WENT INTO THE STATE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MICHAEL SOLOMON GUDINSKI A.M., FOUNDER OF MUSHROOM RECORDS AND HUGE CREATOR AND INFLUENCER IN THE AUSTRALIAN … [Read more...]
Healthy eating
'GLUTEN STEAK' & 'WEET GRIST' ANYONE? THIS BRIGHT LITTLE BOOKLET FROM THE 1960s PROMOTES HEALTH EATING. It looks at food groups and also introduces some new products - may be they needed more … [Read more...]