Anna Gebels

PhD candidate, curator, historian, singer, mum and lover of all things historic.

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@history2wheeler @AvCulturesConf We’ll have to add those to the list!

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@TBrady1963 @Qantas I know hey!! Perfect place to finish a thesis!!

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The last @Qantas 747 fying past my study window on route to its forever desert home! Farewell friend, sorry aviation is in hibernation for your last hurrah!

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@air_heritage

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This legend @history2wheeler 👏

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While this podcast chat with @StephenSmiley went live at 4am, thankfully our conversation on The Signal took place during daylight hours 😳 @anzshm @RAHS_News @AustHistAssoc @pha_nsw @Artefact_H #AnIntimatePandemic
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@KarlJames_1945 @AWMemorial @MrSamMac @sunriseon7 Ooh- 7 On Demand here I come!

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Moreover it would have greatly assisted the search if media outlets had used Margo’s most recent legal name with reference to her nickname- of which they were informed. Alas it is a happy ending! 👏

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Always important to take not of how even the most ‘trustworthy’ media outlets can spin a story and report half truths. Whilst yes the daughter to whom the diary was returned in NSW may not have know of the diary, Margo’s other daughter was very familiar. https://t.co/wfXwmXOyIK

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Just got off the phone with Margo’s daughter! The family has been found and the diary will be returned! It is still a mystery how it ended up in @woolworths Gordon but that’s a mystery that’s not quite as important to solve.

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That rush you feel when browsing social media and discover that a very significant piece EATS heritage (I’ve only seen as a facsimile) and have been researching for my thesis- has been lost in a North Shore shopping centre and handed into police! It was a drop everything and call

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Audrey Mildred Paton (née Cooper) WAAAF Sern 106565 married William Ian Paton AIF (I think NX42528) 7 June 1943.

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@Mikalasedgwick Marvellous! So pleased that it’s on its way home. The find certainly set the police and a few historians on a bit of a chase! I’d be keen to chat about the reunion of the remarkable piece of Australian history created by your Nan. She really had a way with words!

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We’re trying to track down the family of Audrey “Margo” Paton nee Cooper. Married 1943 to William Ian Paton. Her family originally from East Maitland and his from Roseville Sydney.

[9News Sydney @9NewsSyd]

Mystery surrounds the discovery of a diary dating back to 1943, found in a Woolworths on Sydney's upper north shore. @LizzyBryan1 #9News

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Looking forward to this!!

[AustralianStory @AustralianStory]

What lessons can we learn today from the “forgotten pandemic” of 1919? 🦠
Looking back to the past to shape our future in the age of #COVID-19 #AustralianStory TONIGHT

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@KarlJames_1945 Thanks for flicking it through!

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@history2wheeler @lalla_maus @SydneyClio @AustralianStory @AustHistAssoc @pha_nsw @RAHS_News @anzshm @UsydSOPHI @Sydney_Uni Looking forward to this!! Did they manage to track down the Harry Hansell images?

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Margo’s actual name was Audrey Cooper. She was from East Maitland and married an Ian Paton from Roseville in 1943.

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@tracyireland4 Hopefully we can get it back to the family. The police now have a name and an address from 2008 when the facsimile was donated so fingers crossed. Two curators and a cop on the case now 😉