Personal recordkeeping in the digital age is an interesting prospect. Take the text message. If you’re a mobile phone user and send text messages, do you intentionally save any you create or receive?
No? Perhaps your messages are all banal, along the lines of arranging meetings, pick ups from the station or fish and chip dinners. [...]
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Motherhood, archiving and the text message
Which history? Restoration or vandalism?
The oldest boat still extant in Australia recently returned to its original home, Tasmania. It had been languishing in a boatyard in New South Wales. A Tasmanian maritime expert confirmed the boat as the Admiral, built of huon pine in 1865 and originally used to ferry dignitaries across the Derwent River in Hobart. The boat [...]