History Detective New month; a slightly different newsletter design – again (I will explain why in Rave Reviews). It will change again (sorry about that!) as I have run out of ‘playing’ time because of this and oth

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• Graphics software
• Software
• Adobe InDesign
• Desktop publishing software

History Detective What a month August has been. I handed in the manuscript for The Lucretia Borgia of Botany Bay – at last. With a mainstream publisher like Allen & Unwin, a manuscript goes through an intense editing p

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• Genealogy
• Kinship and descent

History Detective Well, the year seems to be hotting up already—business-wise, that is. But autumn is now upon us and it will soon be getting cooler (oh, misery!). Thank goodness for the Unlock the Past Baltic Cruise i

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• Printing
• Desktop publishing software
• Whitespace
• Punctuation
• Letter-spacing
• Paragraph
• Widows and orphans
• TeX
• Quotation mark
• Typography
• Graphic design
• Software

History Detective Welcome to Volume 3 of the History Detective newsletter. It’s hard to believe that we are now into 2015 and commencing the third year of the newsletter. I begin the year by announcing the publication

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• Information science
• Library science
• Information
• Knowledge
• Writing
• Paragraph
• Genealogy
• Secondary source
• Primary source
• Typography
• Science
• Historiography

History Detective The two days of research and writing seminars offered by Unlock the Past at Adelaide on 9/10 May went brilliantly, so much so that Alan Phillips has invited me to give the seminar series – plus some

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• Book design
• Publishing
• Genealogy
• Bushism
• Book
• Recto and verso
• Reading
• Printing
• Linguistics
• Malapropism
• Documents

History Detective Welcome back to the second year of the History Detective newsletter. I hope you’re all refreshed and ready for another year of history hunting and writing, indeed of pursuing all of your goals and dre

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• Truly
• Algebra
• Ratios
• Next Magazine

History Detective Last weekend, I was a speaker and exhibitor at the Australasian Genealogical Congress held in Canberra. Congratulations to the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra (HAGSOC) for hosting a terrific

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• Family name
• Epistemology
• Married and maiden names
• Behavior
• Ethology
• Surnames
• Genealogy
• Soundex

Baby bird detective Robin House sparrow

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Rockpool detective Starfish Edible crab

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Finch detective Chaffinch Greenfinch

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