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

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