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Bibliographer Carol Hetherington tells us her own tale of sleuthing through the To Be Continued database and Trove as she attempted to track down a mysterious author who wrote story after story…after story.

How did she track down the enigmatically named Roland Quiz? And what do the stories behind the many pseudonyms found in Trove tell us about the people who wrote Australia’s fiction in the newspapers of the time?

Mentioned in the episode

A Bush Race Meeting

A Ghostly Chapter

A Deaf Cook

His Terrifying Experience

The Last Night of the Camp

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Stories by Ivan Dexter

Author Vance Palmer

The stories in this episode were read by Perform Australia

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Main story

The Story of the Three Photos

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The scientific bushranger? Have you ever heard of such a thing?

In this episode we look at the unexpected Bushranger stories Associate Professor Maggie Nolan from the University of Queensland and Professor Ronan McDonald from Melbourne University found in the To Be Continued database.

Bushrangers are an iconic part of Australian post colonial history but what do we really know about them other than the iconic image of Ned Kelly?

Mentioned in episode

Search Trove for ‘Bushranger’

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Bushranger Martin Cash

Bushranger Alexander Pierce

Female Bushranger Jesse Hickman

Chinese Australian Bushranger Sam Poo

Main stories

How Ubique Robbed TheMorganville Company’s Safe

The Helpful Bushranger

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This episode we dive into the extraordinary world of fiction for children with Associate Professor Kristine Moruzi from Deakin University.

When did we first start publishing material for children? And what do the wild adventures involving shipwrecks, kidnapping and toast water tell us about what it meant to be a child in this time?

Mentioned in the episode

Mary Grant Bruce

Princess Spinaway’s Department

Someone else thought the concept of toast water was interesting and attempted to recreate the recipe in this YouTube video

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Main stories

The Marvellous Island

Theft of a day

The Convalescence of Taffie Farndon

A Little Bushmaid

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How much is our way of thinking shaped by technology?

Associate Professor Roger Osborne from James Cook University joins us to delve into a story about high flying spying antics that raises a lot of questions about how new technological possibilities become integrated into stories.

As history unfolds how do we imagine new futures? And when some of these come to pass, how are stories used to question and explore the ways our society changes?

Mentioned in the episode

The Flying Girl

Eleanor Dark

Featured stories

The Wickham Aeroplane by Francis Marlowe.

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