Category: history
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Launch of the Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition
Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition Welcome to the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980. The ADB, produced in part by The Australian Science and Technology Centre at the University of Melbourne, will be officially launched…
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8 Hours Day Celebration 21 April 2006
I finally put up some photos for the 8 Hour Day Celebrations held at the University of Melbourne on the 21 April 2006. There are also two academic conferences to be held on the 21-22 June.
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8 Hour Day Conferences
To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the 8 Hour Day, there are a couple of conference being held in Melbourne. The first focuses upon the history of the 8 Hour Day, whilst the other looks at contemporary concerns. 8-hour day. Two conferences to celebrate the history and the future of the 8-hour day. 21-23 June,…
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Resurrecting the Dead
It is strange where historical significant video footage ends up. Here is the only remaining footage of a Tasmanian Tiger taken at the Hobart Zoo in 1936 (that somehow ended up on Youtube.com). Now, just imagine in the BBC or the ABC digitised and provided access to their vast archives. This footage is ‘public domain’;…
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Techne: Internet 2.0
…people, institutions, companies, and society extensively transform any technology by appropriating it, modifying it, or experimenting with it. Castells 2001 Summary Technology is a modern word that combines the Greek techne (skill, metier) with logos (knowledge). Techne crudely translates into the craft of knowledge and is not just the skill of technique or creating a…
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The 8 Hour Day Celebrations
This year, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 8 hour day. Melbourne was pretty much the first place in the world where workers were granted the 8 hour day (ironically, working on building the University of Melbourne). There is a celebration on Friday 21 April: Here are the details. Hope to see you there! On Friday…