Saumarez Homestead / National Trust of Australia (NSW) World War I historical article (c. early 20th-century material; later interpretation) Abstract This article examines the “badge-bag” phenomenon in Armidale, New South Wales, during World War I, where collecting fundraising badges became both a patriotic activity and a form of social competition. Women and girls attached badges and buttons, purchased to support wartime charities and organisations, to cloth handbags, transf

History, No. 157 September 2023 Abstract This article examines the documentary heritage collection of Miss Porter’s House in Newcastle, a rare and comprehensive record of women’s lives across the twentieth century. Through letters, postcards, notebooks, scrapbooks, and everyday records, it reconstructs the experiences of the Porter women and their careful documentation of domestic life over several decades. The collection reveals patterns of education, work, leisure, and hous