FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30 Jun 2023

 GENERAL

GSQ Blog...  The elusive background of Mary Sheehy. Christine Leonard

Homeowners in historic Rockhampton uncover fascinating histories with new research service - ABC News

National Archives UK

Video and blog: The Empire Windrush passenger list

Blog: Women on board the Empire Windrush

Podcast: On the Record, Windrush at 75

Online event: The story of Empire Windrush in ten documents

Blog: The story of Edward Lees: Refugee, internee, soldier

Outback Family History

The Pioneer Photographer – Roy Millar 

Mick of the Murchison – Doing Time

George Jessop – grave tales  The Game – by Ray ‘Jacko’ Jackson

Smithsonian

Bronze Age Cemetery Discovered Near Stonehenge 

An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Los Alamos Lab Where J. Robert Oppenheimer Created the Atomic Bomb 

This Ancient Maya City Was Hidden in the Jungle for More Than 1,000 Years 

Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Sword So Well Preserved It 'Almost Still Shines' 

The Real History Behind the Archimedes Dial in 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' 

How the Santa Fe Railroad Changed America Forever 

Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old 'Dutch Stonehenge' 

JStor Daily

The Milk Banks of New York   Plant of the Month: Indigo

Martha Graham's Night Journey  Tape Heads 

The Enduring Appeal of Architect Geoffrey Bawa

Atlas Obscura

Remembering ‘Brownie Mary’  The Summer Solstice Triangle     

Miniature Hollywood   Crafting a Miniature Abandoned Room

Podcasts   PODCAST Step Inside the Hand Collection   

PODCAST Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken Restaurant      City Hall Station N.Y. 

The Store Keeping Books in Boats     Orca Behaviour

End of the World Cinema     World’s Largest Miniature Collection   

Come Explore Fairyland After Dark     Doberge Cake

The Britpop Legends Who Almost Launched a Space Program     

Spaceship House      A Collection of Toys for the Afterlife   

Son Kee Chung’s Greek Helmet  World’s Most Beloved Asparagus

Vulcan Point Philippines The Disgusting Food Museum

World’s Only Art Nouveau McDonald’s Serbia Tomb of the Wet Kimono    Humanity’s Most Distant Spacecraft    Unusual Sodas

Garum Biblioteca e Museo Della Cucina Italy Robert the Doll cursed

Debunking National Dishes  AO Tries Tarpon Fishing

Earth’s Coolest Library  Human Scents and Perfumes

Tower Hill Execution Site England  Grapes on Fire   

The Eerie Remnants of an Ancient Forest  Oregon

Step Inside a Garden of Fragrance  San Francisco

Curious Culinary Finds in Colorado  

Irish Genealogy

Kevin Clifton 'proud' to have new role models after discovering family history - Irish News 

Irish pub restores family history in Elroy - WiscNews 

US Governor with local ancestry to address Seanad - Westmeath Independent 

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group to discuss probate gems and Irish ancestry 

Illiana Ancestors: New Irish magazine online | Lifestyles - commercial-news.com 

10 of the biggest MISTAKES tourists make when visiting Ireland - Ireland Before You Die 

Always Interesting

Textile Ranger Knitting for Victory in the Early 1940s

humouring the goddess Kiko Miyares    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Erich J. Moffitt   This Amazing Time Is Yours! | The Creator

Dumb Questions on a Bright Saturday Day 

Faerie Paths — Masterpieces Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Randall Rosenthal   Cool Windy Cloudy Misty Summer Mornings

allenrizzi The Camp At Lost Creek  

The Long Drive Yankee Doodle Dandy

Pauline Conolly THE WIDOW WONGA     KANGAROO EXPRESS

LADIES, BRING A PLATE (must read)

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Wycoller, Brontës and Boulsworth Hill (517m) in Pennine Lancashire

Jennifer Jones Research Timeline: Ernest Welfare WATERS and Hilda Mary Beatrice Gilmour – My great grandparents

Stair na hÉireann #OTD in Irish History | 26 June:

 [Records-Access-Alerts] (Canada) C-18 Bill Requiring Google-Meta to Pay for News Content Becomes Law

https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/06/22/liberal-bill-requiring-google-and-meta-to-pay-for-news-content-passes-in-senate.html  

http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Tania Blanchard

Newsletter Read about her latest book... A Woman of Courage 

I've enjoyed a number of her books.. mentioned in her newsletter.

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang     READ MORE

Storylines by Carrie Cox  READ MORE

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao    READ MORE

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding     READ MORE     

The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer   READ MORE

Podcast: Susan Paterson on Exploring the Power of Art in her Debut Novel Where Light Meets Water    LISTEN HERE

Podcast: James Comey on the FBI, Mob Trials and Writing Crime

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BE Better Podcast: Paul McKenna on Finding Freedom from Anxiety

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Penguin Books Australia

The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire van Ryn CHECK IT OUT

READ A SNIPPET

Why We Are Here Briohny Doyle    READ AN EXTRACT

The Scarlet Papers Matthew Richardson TAKE ME THERE

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Kevin  HAVE A LOOK

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23 Jun 2023, The Allure of Book Towns, Man-Fish Friendship, Trees that change your tastebuds, a must read… biographical database of Australia, dangers of tea drinking, the time Iceland banned cats, thousand year rose, outraged farmers mobilise in rural Ireland, great blogs and reviews…

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Headlines of Old

FEMALE CONVICTS.. Trove Tuesday 27th Jun 2023,  Cost of taking female convicts as servants, conditions female convicts were expected to live under, links for further information...

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