Sally Bloomfield

Retired librarian now private researcher. Interests in early Tasmanian history, printing publishing & newspapers in colonial Australia. Andrew Bent

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@MST_Writes Kerfuffles in the 1840s too when a family connection of mine (Samuel Prout Hill) was secretary/librarian. When he resigned (just before they could dismiss him) in 1848 the library was found to be in complete disarray. His successor had to recatalogue all the books!

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@hunting_relos The first word in each case is definitely not child. Looks like Ch:yd (=churchyard?)

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@C19thNewshound Thanks for posting this really interesting article. And yes an impressive masthead. Have you crossed paths with the British Guardian? A radical paper Circa 1809-1811 I believe

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@MichWatsonOz Are there very many left on here? If so they have nearly all disappeared from my feed

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

200 years ago today in Hobart Andrew Bent shook off government censorship of his newspaper - the first publisher in the Australian colonies to do so. https://t.co/RbJk9DiLvo
#newspapers #pressfreedom

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@recentlysarah @LibrariesTas @statelibrarynsw @PortArthur Here’s hoping. I’d like to see it in Tas where it obviously belongs. So many early convict & other important documents from Tas have gone AWOL over the years. Would love to know the provenance of this one

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@MST_Writes @statelibrarynsw @text_publishing And in good company too

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@eleaud Wonderful news!

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@danielmloftus @Ancestry GRRRR! In addition I and others I know have had constant problems with some thrulines failing to update. Customer support has become extremely difficult to get other than by their useless chatbot. Not good enough!

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@jonls_1 @jollybeggars As a family historian down under it took me a while to work out where the “Kammers” mentioned in my ancestor’s military records actually was. Thanks for sharing the pics

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@NathanHobby Provenance does not get much better than that!

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@ncushing12 @fbongiornoanu I doubt it was ever on public display. I’ve looked fairly closely at the crescendo of opposition to Arthur in 1830s & jubilation at his recall (my 3xggf printer Andrew Bent like Kermode was in the thick of it) I don’t recollect seeing anything about it. Might be worth rechecking

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@fbongiornoanu Thanks so much for sharing and yes what a wonderful find. The museum appear to have been thorough in their research and from what I know of William Kermode and his loathing for Governor Arthur his involvement makes perfect sense

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@statelibrarynsw @MaggiePatts Just gorgeous!

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@colourful_hist @AustPolicyHist Such a stupidly shortsighted and misguided proposal, especially in light of BL’s recent digital woes, I could hardly believe it. Seems to have provoked an intense response from Library & genealogy community (petition etc) so let’s hope they listen

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@MST_Writes @Writers_Vic What a great project. Good luck

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@colourful_hist @statelibrarynsw Always something interesting to be found there

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@Caledonia_Aus Excellent article. I’ve just been reading some newspaper reports of the dinners in Hobart in mid 1820s - sumptuous feasts, copious quantities of alcohol and quite a few non Scots participating

[Lifelines Research @Dave_Lifelines]

Dickens uses a lovely phrase in Little Dorrit to describe what genealogists do. Mr Pancks explains how he had had discovered that the Dorrits were the rightful heirs of a fortune:

"Moled it out, sir"

The whole scene is an excellent description of evidence-based research!

[Sally Bloomfield @SallyBloomfiel7]

@Dave_Lifelines Wonderful description! I think of Little Dorrit every time I see another convoluted Chancery bill of revivor (somebody having dropped off the perch) & the money going into lawyers pockets from the payment of all those “costs and charges”