Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS) Newsletter No. 53 June 2022 Abstract This article recounts a significant maritime history discovery within the historic homestead of ‘Bedervale’ at Braidwood, where a rare navigational text reveals connections between domestic collections and global seafaring networks. Through close examination of material evidence, the piece traces the life and career of Captain John Coghill and the enduring presence of his maritime past w

Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS) Newsletter No. 56 October 2024 Abstract This article documents an Australian-led heritage initiative to record and preserve the East India Company Cemetery in Macau, a site that bears witness to the global networks of trade, empire, and migration in the nineteenth century. Established in the early 1800s when Macau served as a crucial base for British commercial operations in China, the cemetery contains graves of merchants,

Descent , Vol. 53, No. 3, September 2023, pp. 96–98 (Society of Australian Genealogists) Book Review September 2023 Abstract A heritage controversy in Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point in March 2023 becomes the starting point for tracing an unexpected historical connection between Australia and Jamaica. Focusing on Shafston House, the article follows the origins of its name to the New Shafston Estate in Jamaica, associated with the Pinnock family- an enslaving family whose descendant

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

28 The Australian August 2–3, 2025 Abstract In April, a visit to Seoul revealed a city where contemporary creativity and deep history coexist with striking ease. From Sculpture City Seoul, an ambitious open-air art initiative transforming urban spaces, to the refined craftsmanship of the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, public art has become central to the city’s identity. Yet amid this modern vibrancy, the legacy of the Joseon Dynasty endures in the courtyards of Gyeongbok Palace