Thursday 25 September 2008

A bit of history research

Saw the PROVic's display "Currach Folk" - photographer Bill Doyle's studies in the mid 1960s of Gaelic-speaking fishing and farming communities on the Aran Islands and the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland’s west coast, with their distinctive currachs (boats). The images capture the hardship, dignity and humanity of people whose lives are shaped by the sea.


"Researching Properties" seminar -an overview of the PROV records that relate to the land and the built environment that may be used for research into houses and land in Victoria, (interestingly it included a Marnoo/Kara Kara Parish map as an example) and involved the case study of the history of a Victorian-Art Deco home (just a couple of streets from an ancestral home below) in the City of Melbourne using PROV records.

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