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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03... #convicts #australianhistory #ozhist #history

Drawing of Australian convicts in chains?

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Old shipwreck uncovered on Victorian beach. 🤩 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #AustralianHistory #History #Shipwreck #Victoria #Australia

Image of shipwreck timber appearing out of beach sand

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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🤔 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

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary

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Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

"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

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 04/07/2025

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.

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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-...

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"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

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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

A bird with a bright blue head, black eye banding, white belly and black and teal wing perched on a stick just off the ground.

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

Screenshot of advert for SLA Exhibition Online Kellys

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/04/2025

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

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

Japanese midget submarine being recovered from Sydney Harbour 1942.

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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

Part image of statue of Matthew Flinders & his seafaring cat Trim

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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

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Chery (Great Australian Pods) @cheryanne.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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

Screenshot showing the 100 most popular podcasts on Great Australian Pods in 2024

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

this the horse btw

a medieval drawing of an anthropomorphic horse sitting on a throne

a medieval drawing of an anthropomorphic horse surrounded by people

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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NurseBrianRN @nursebrianrn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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🏺

My photo shows a woman’s bonnet laid flat for display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The woollen yarn is brown in colour, possibly as a result of millennia spent in a peat bog. It has an inricate lace-like appearance. It has two long strings for fastening. Made using an ancient technique known as ‘språng’ which produces a textile with natural elasticity.

Discovered in 1942 in Bredmose bog on a so-called ‘bog body’ of a woman aged 20-25 years old. The bonnet was placed over her hair which was braided and coiled on top of her head.

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

Satellite image of path of tornado in Australian outback

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Jayne @oldcowjayne.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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Jayne @oldcowjayne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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Hermit Heidi @hermitheidi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Rainy day currawong

Large black bird sitting in rain on railing

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871

A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

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

A map showing the lighthouses of Australia as illuminated points

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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

Early coloured illustration of world map

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Optimism

Photo of a section of a wooden wharf with a young plant sprouting from the top of one of the pylons

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

A sea monster with spiked gills and sharp teeth, spouts water into a ship full of sailors. From the 16th-century Swiss text "Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum : quae in Historiae animalium Conradi Gesneri libro I. et II."
Attribution: From the Smithsonian Libraries
Identifier: SIL7-45-09
https://library.si.edu/image-gallery/105612

A sea monster vomits water onto a ship, causing it to sink.

Attribution: From the British Library archive
Title of Work: C. Julii Solini Polyhistor ... Huic Pomponii Melæ de situ orbis libros ... adiunximus. Accesserunt nova scholia, quæ loca autoris utrius; obscuriora ... illustrant, tabulæ geographicæ, etc.
Shelfmark: 216.b.1
Place and date of production: Basileæ : Apud M. Isingrinium & H. Petri, 1538
https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/163355

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

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

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

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

📸 The Coorong (Kingston District Council)

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

✨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...

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Episode 153 - The Plebeians Push into Power - The Partial Historians

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!

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

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

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

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 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of Falstaff and a young Prince Hal, who is dragging a sword.Falstaff is enormous; a round mountain of a man in high boots that could hold enough mead to ruin your evening (and morning). He is wearing a fancy belt, and his hat has an ostrich feather plume. His arms are behind his back, and he is looking over his shoulder at Hal. Beneath his walrus mustache he is speaking truths and lies in equal measure, wrapping them around each other like lovers in an airplane bathroom. If you give this man your bacon sandwich, it will be gone when you come back, and he will have a fantastic tale about pirates and a large penguin. All while wiping grease from his doublet.

For his part, Hall is slight and small. Dressed in red and uncertain to his core, he is chewing on a finger. He looks like he'd get beat up at recess. And mocked. But when he grows into that sword, he's gonna mock castles down.

Meme text reads:
"Bring me my book of eel insults
I've got a prince to drag"

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Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

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

Illustration of George Bass & Matthew Flinders

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

#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

A rectangular mosaic showing 33 bird portraits in individual frames. The central motif has had parts removed. The whole section has an additional geometric border.

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