In Those Days

We read newspaper articles about some of the first services for mothers and babies in Richmond. Penny's friends Jo Rosenberg and Vaya Pashos compare this to their own experiences of Maternal Child Health services.

Then proper oral historian, Carla Pascoe-Leahy, talks to Penny and Christina about how ideas around mothercraft have changed over the past 100 years.

This episode was recorded at the Richmond Library Makerspace. Thanks to Yarra Council for their support.

Guests
Neighbuzz podcast hosted by Vaya Pashos
Becoming a Mother: An Australian history by Carla Pascoe Leahy
The Conversation articles by Carla Pascoe Leahy

Trove
'School for Mothers in Melbourne', Geelong Advertiser, 15 September 1909
'Mothercraft: Work of the Baby Centres', The Argus, 21 January 1921

Other
Kaz Cooke's books
Robin Barker's books
Isabella Younger, The Australian Women's Register
'100 Years of maternal and child health nursing', Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, 2017

Musician and educator, Adam Arnold talks to us about brass bands in Richmond. We find some uncanny parallels between Adam's current bands and the Richmond Boys Brass Band started a hundred years earlier.

Trove
'50 Years Since he Led First Band', Bairnsdale Advertiser and East Gippsland Stock and Station Journal, 16 March 1953
'Richmond Boys Brass Band to make Debut', Richmond Guardian, 12 January 1918
'City Reserve Not Available for Performances', Richmond Guardian, 1 March 1919
'Monopoly at the Band Room', Richmond Guardian, 1 March 1919

Adam Arnold
Compositions, Brolga Music
Funk Buddies
RWPS Brass Band

Other
Latrobe Federal Band - oldest band in Australia
Tim Jones, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Bobby Shew, National Jazz Archive
Engineering Music Society
'Women in brass bands', Jeremy de Kourt
Band Blasts from the Past, Jeremy de Kourt
Gunnedah Shire Band
Sydney City Brass
'Adolphe Sax', Time, Lily Rotham

Penny and Christina are joined by star of stage and screen, Damian Callinan, to talk about stages and screens in Richmond in the olden days. Specifically we read articles from Trove about the Globe Picture Theatre, which was built in 1912 on the site of the current Richmond Library. And musician-of-the pod Tim Carruthers joins us to bring some old sheet music to life.

Here are some of things we talked about in the episode:

See Damian live!
Unlikely Friends, Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Damian's stage shows
Double Feature
Eureka Stocktake
The Merger
Is this thing on? The Dave Berry Story
Swing Man
The Lost World War I Diary

Damian's films
The Merger, 2018
Backyard Ashes, 2013
The Emu War, 2023

Damian's book
Weird School, 2021

Trove
'Globe Theatre Auspicious Opening', Richmond Guardian, 13 April 1912
'Globe Theatre', Richmond Guardian, 25 May 1912
'Trouble at the Globe', Argus, 10 February 1915
'Newspaper published 101 Years Ago', The Age, 7 August 1939
'We're going back, back again to Broken Hill', Harry Hoddinott, 1933

Other
The Owl and the Pussycat theatre
Christmess, film, 2023
Blue Grassy Knoll
My Giddy Aunt, by Sharon Connolly
'Looking Back: Australia's Emu War', by Jasper Garner Gore, Australian Geographic, 2016
'Cakewalk', by Lakshmi Gandhi, NPR, 2013
'The Lost City of Melbourne', film, 2022

Penny and Christina are joined by Mary Carroll, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University. Mary is a historian of Australian libraries. We read 1870s newspaper articles from Trove about the Richmond at the Town Hall and talk about whether anything has really changed.

We cover some hot button library topics including: qualified teacher librarians, silence, and Mills and Boon.

This is the first episode in a series about Richmond, Melbourne. It was recorded as part of the Richmond Library Makerspace's Artist in Residence program. Thanks to Yarra Council for their support.

Trove
'News of the Day', The Age, 20 May 1874.
'The Richmond Public Library', The Argus, 2 July 1879
'The University and the Public Library', The Argus, 4 July 1854
'Take Away Service', The Australian Jewish News, 20 January 1984

Other
'Digitising the Sun', State Library Victoria
Yarra Council Annual Report 2022/23
2022-23 Public Libraries Victoria Statistical Survey - Summary Report
'150 of Public Education in Victoria', Victorian State Government, 2023
'Library usage and engagement', Pew Research Centre, 2016
'A Conversation about Social Workers in Libraries', SICS Radio, 2023
Libraries after dark
Medieval Help Desk

Comedian and broadcaster Charlie Pickering joins us to discuss Brunswick Street pub, The Royal Derby. As a new comic, Charlie started a stand-up room at the Derby with Michael Chamberlain. He tells us about the origins and philosophy of Stage Time and we discuss Royal Derby entertainments from the even more olden days.

Trove
'Royal Derby Hotel', Mercury and Weekly Courier, 25 October 1888
'The Critic', Mercury and Weekly Courier, 13 June 1889
'Rat Catching', The Argus, 14 March 1900

Other
Photos of the Royal Derby
Cheers theme song

Kids Lit allrounder and MVP Emily Gale joins Christina and Penny to talk about illustrator Kate Greenaway. Emily also gives some great advice for writers and illustrators on the state of the industry.

Emily Gale
Website
Substack - Voracious

Trove
'A Charming Artist', Launceston Examiner, 5 June 1893
'Miss Kate Greenaway's Latest Child's Book', The Australasian, 27 October 1883
'Literary Notes', The Australasian, 30 December 1905
'Literary Lines', Quiz, 9 May 1890
'Children's Dress Past and Present', Observer, 24 February 1906

Other
Petition - Bring Back the Kate Greenaway Medal
'The Leicester Gallery', Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Muriel's Dreamland', by Mrs J. W. Brown (Emily Gale's great great great grandmother)
'The Surprising Story of the Christmas Card', Julieanne Lambert, the Bodleian Blog
Kate Greenaway's Home and Studio
'Under the Window' by Kate Greenaway
'When James Abbott McNeill Whistler Sued his Harshest Critic and Won', by Demie Kim, Artsy
'Liberty Garments in the Collections', Totnes Textiles & Fashion Museum
Degeneration by Max Nordeau, British Library

Linnett Turner joins Penny and husband-of-half-of-the-pod Lincoln to talk about Alison Sanchez (nee Binns). Linnett's mother Alison grew up in Canberra in the early days of Australia's capital. A tragedy in her early-20s transformed Alison's plans and she travelled the world before returning to Canberra again.

Trove
'Farewell Evening', The Canberra Times, 28 March 1929
'Musical Evening', The Canberra Times, 5 August 1929
'Fall into Boiling Water', The Argus, 25 February 1930
'Dickens Evening', The Canberra Times, 2 December 1935
'Primrose Nurses Meet Tonight', The Melbourne Herald, 14 January 1941
'Engagements', The Argus, 4 February 1941
'Roll of Honour', The Canberra Times, 26 February 1943
'Cooma Pilot's End in Fight with 8 Messerschmitts', The Canberra Times, 15 March 1943
School Speech Assemblies Canberra Grammar School, The Canberra Times, 11 December 1943
'The Canberran 1995', Canberra Grammar School
'Births', The Canberra Times, 16 September 1948
'Canberra Diary', The Canberra Times, 17 December 1954

Related Episodes
Space Available for Major Sanchez

Other
Founding of Canberra, National Museum of Australia
Gough Whitlam, National Archives of Australia
Freda Whitlam, Whitlam Institute, Sydney University
'From 100 years to 1000 days, Tweddle celebrates its Centenary', by Kerrie Gottliebsen
'Our History', Plunket New Zealand
Edward Sly, Spitfire Association
Adrian Feint bookplates, National Gallery of Australia
'The Man Behind the Name', by Lynette Gleeson, Camellias Australia
'The Lloyd Triestino Trio', Museums Victoria

Primary school teacher Anna Grace joins Penny and Christina to talk about the Faraday kidnappings. With a special guest appearance from Peter Tangey.

Trove
'$1 Million Demand for Teacher', 6 Pupils, The Canberra Times, 7 October 1972
'Big Hunt for School Kidnappers', The Canberra Times, 9 October 1972
'2 Men Charged over Kidnap', The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 10 October 1972
'School Teacher Collapses', The Canberra Times, 10 October 1972
'Teacher 'not going back', The Canberra Times, 2 November 1972
'In Brief', The Canberra Times, 21 November 1972
'Greater flexibility' to NSW Primary Schools, The Canberra Times, 3 January 1973

Other
Sudanese Australian Integrate Learning (SAIL) program
'The Mini Lesson of the Faraday School Kidnapping', Teachers Talk Crime podcast
'Victoria's Former Premier, Gone but not forgotten', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2008
'The Fierce Country: The Faraday School Kidnapping', Adelaide Review of Books, 12 July 2018

Peter Tangey is back to talk about another chapter in Chorkles Moss's life. She gave evidence at the Victorian Royal Commission on Communism in 1949. We talk about how divisive communism became for Australian politics and communities.

Trove
'Ideals akin to Christianity', The Herald, 26 July 1949
'Woman farmer's evidence at Red inquiry', The Argus, 27 July 1949
Miss Mabel Grubb, Western Mail, 20 October 1927
'Success at Oxford', The West Australian, 15 August 1933

Other
'The Victorian Royal Commission on Communism, 1949-50' by Vicky Rastrick
Sir Charles Lowe, Australian Dictionary of Biography
'Australia's Game' by Professor Matthew Nicholson
Report of Royal Commission inquiring into the origins, aims, objects, and funds of the Communist Party in Victoria and other related matters
'Reds Under the Bed: 100 Years of Communism in Australia', Australian National University

Tim Carruthers returns to hear more about our sailor's journey from Melbourne to the Goldfields. The sailor reaches the Black Forest and comes across a notorious "bushranger", Black Douglas.

We also hear the true story of Tim's star-turn in Castlemaine North's production of Captain Midnite the musical.

Trove
'A Sailor's Trip from Melbourne to Mount Alexander', The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 1852
'Death of a Notorious Bushranger', The Age, 17 May 1892
'Supreme Court Wednesday April 14th Criminal Sittings', The Argus, 15 April 1852
'At the Primary School', Western Herald, 12 July 1968
'Escape of "Moondyne Joe", The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Times, 15 March 1867
'The Starlight Story', The Kalgoorlie Miner, 27 November 1900

Other
'The Treacherous Black Forest, Victoria', Goldfields Guide
'Gold Rushes', National Museum of Australia
'Gold Rush Brings More People to Victoria', Deadly Story
'A black Ned Kelly', by Tom Almeroth-Williams
'Boundary Crossers', by Meg Foster, UNSW Press
'The 'Other' Bushrangers', by Meg Foster, UNSW
Sir James Douglas (aka Black Douglas), Britannica
'The Wild Colonial Boy', Planet Slade
'Captain Melville', Goldfields Guide
'Midnite' Teachers Notes, Reading Australia
Randolph Stow, Text Publishing
Richard Tulloch, Penguin
Kevin Harrington, Imdb
Richard Dillane, Imdb
'From Bavaria to Ballarat: Wild Times with Lola Montez', by Andrew McConville, State Library Victoria
'Aye-aye Captain: The Captains of Bushranging', A Guide to Australian Bushranging
The Grave of Midnight, Aussie Towns
'History of Moondyne Joe', Moondyne Festival
'The Conman behind Captain Starlight', Nightlife ABC