Archive for April, 2026

Online Collection Spotlight: Trench journals and unit magazines of the First World War.

Online Collection Spotlight: Trench journals and unit magazines of the First World War.

April 20, 2026

Ask a librarian, Collection spotlights, War:

This Online Collection Spotlight examines WWI trench journals created by units from several combatant nation between 1914 and 1919. Produced in camps and battle zones, these handmade publications reveal humour, creativity, and resilience through poems, sketches, notes and stories.

The sky is the limit: pioneering aviator Freda Thompson

The sky is the limit: pioneering aviator Freda Thompson

April 15, 2026

People & professions, Such was life, Uncategorized, Victorian history:

In 1934, Australian aviator, Freda Thompson, made history as the first Australian woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Thompson was a pioneer who believed the sky was the limit – she wanted to reach that limit, to feel the adrenaline, to just fly.