Traces

It was a passion of mine to start a magazine that focused on Australian history, to offer a platform to people like yourselves who research and discover inspiring stories about our heritage, and share it with an audience who are just as passionate ab

PETER HANSLOW and Joseph Wilkes were convicted together at the Warwick Assizes, England, on 2 August 1817 for their part in the theft of a large quantity of wick yarn, and sentenced to seven years’ transportation. After their trial, they were sent to

Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte himself funded an expedition of French explorers, scientists and artists that travelled around Australia from 1800 to 1804? On show at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart until 9 July 2017, The Art of S

IN SUMMER, the Victorian High Country hosts a seasonal explosion of visitors. The lucky few are privy to a secret little swimming hole on the Delatite River close to Goughs Bay. It’s beautiful there, the sun glinting off the water, the little rapids

The career of the Kelly gang and their decline and fall, is a memorable episode in Australian history, but the chronicler of Australian bushranging may find almost equally excellent material in the exploits of Francis Henry Thomas. On May 23 this man

MARCH 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of when I first started researching my own family history. Having watched the television series Roots, I was totally hooked on the idea of tracing my own family stories and learning more about my ancestors. It e

Of all the convict sites, Norfolk Island’s collection of Georgian buildings and ruins in the Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA) is the most breathtaking on first approach. Uniquely, its use as a convict settlement bookended the period of

MY 2 x great grandmother, Sarah Bennett, was born in 1866 in Adelaide. Her parents, John and Margaret, were originally from County Armagh in Ireland before emigrating in 1855. Sarah, the youngest of five children born into the family, did not have a