2012

1 January 2012 Reading the Rum Rebellion
8 January 2012 Charles Dickens and Australia
10 January 2012 The Great Unwashed
13 January 2012 Australian Whalers in Japan
19 January 2012 Young Turks and Braveheart
24 January 2012 Oscar Ameringer and the Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam
26 January 2012 One year On
28 January 2012 Images of Cinderella
3 February 2012 Vanity Publishing
6 February 2012 Law and History
12 February 2012 The Value of Manuscripts
17 February 2012 Teeth
21 February 2012 Sunlit Plains Extended
25 February 2012 On Shifting Sands
29 February 2012 Fast Foods
6 March 2012 Australian history: kicking butt or the bottom line?
8 March 2012 Talking about the weather
13 March 2012 Discarding Women’s Words
15 March 2012 Respect and Respectability
20 March 2012 An axe, a rifle and a box of matches
24 March 2012 Poor Toulouse
30 March 2012 Dining with Wombats
7 April 2012 The Titanic’s Menus and what they can tell us
12 April 2012 The British Library, and why I love librarians
18 April 2012 Is Google a Monster?
23 April 2012 Teredo – worms shall devour them
29 April 2012 William Paterson and the Battered Wife
1 May 2012 A humble suggestion to Clive Palmer
5 May 2012 5 Sex Scandals in Australian politics that didn’t make a blind bit of difference
9 May 2012 Breaking Voices
13 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon – and the long and short of it
18 May 2012 A Black Swan Event in Moreton Bay
25 May 2012 Lachlan Macquarie takes the Overland Route
5 June 2012 The New Cythera and the Transit of Venus
12 June 2012 Queen Victoria’s Journals
19 June 2012 Alan Mathieson Turing: where does the Mathieson come from?
22 June 2012 Dingo Dreaming
29 June 2012 Thomas Dowse: Unaccompanied Minor
3 July 2012 Does knitting have a future?
9 July 2012 Town meets Gown in Toowoomba at the British World Conference
14 July 2012 Why don’t we publish biographies any more?
22 July 2012 Blood in the Water: shark attacks in Australian history
27 July 2012 Batman and A Clockwork Orange: films and violence
29 July 2012 Portrait of Spain at the Queensland Art Gallery
3 August 2012 Gracious words in a hung parliament
14 August 2012 Potatoes and the foods of the poor
19 August 2012 Our Men in Oxford
28 August 2012 Thank God for Anaesthesia
2 September 2012 National Bilby Day and the future of the Easter Bilby
12 September 2012 Dutch Courage and the FV Abel Tasman
20 September 2012 The Last Plantagent: another cold case
26 September 2012 Older Fathers and Royal Blood
2 October 2012 How will we write history when the data disappears?
10 October 2012 Political Partners
12 October 2012 Gender Wars
16 October 2012 Should the European Union have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
31 October 2012 Talking to Asia in the 19^th and 21^st Centuries
6 November 2012 Eventide: the end of benevolence
11 November 2012 …neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned…
2 December 2012 The Feathered Internet
4 December 2012 After the Eureka Stockade