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Hidden Lives
Exploring overlooked lives, especially women, through archives, objects, and local histories.
The Prime Minister’s Potato review
Friends Review , Australian Federation of Friends of Museums (AFFM) December 2025 Abstract This review examines Anne-Marie Condé’s The Prime Minister’s Potato and Other Essays , highlighting her distinctive approach to uncovering overlooked lives through archives and material culture. Drawing on her long career in Australian museums, Condé brings a “miniaturist” sensibility to her work, focusing on small, fragmentary stories that reveal broader historical and social patterns.
Dr Roslyn Russell
Hidden Lives: Discovering Women’s Lives in Local and Regional Collections
Academia Letters April 2022 Abstract Local and regional museums hold countless traces of women’s lives, yet many remain unnamed, unrecorded and unexplored. From a young governess whose identity is lost in a 19th-century family album, to diarists, artists, photographers and widows whose letters survive in church archives, fragments of women’s lived experience are preserved across Australia in small institutions and community collections. Hidden Lives argues that these collecti
Dr Roslyn Russell
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