This title is not a complete gender reversal. If Mrs Beeton had been a guy, his wife wouldn’t even have been mentioned in the title

Steampower at Scienceworks, 1994. Pretty sure I went to this, and there’s photos somewhere of me in a Sweathog jacket enjoying all things #steam .
@museumsvictoria
Like if you had a Sweathog jacket!

(The Age Entertainment Guide, 3 June 1994, p 16)

🤣 I’ll add you to my list of top ten gossips!

Thanks for a very thorough explanation @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social I’ll add you to my list of tramzel experts!

Are they open now? It was hard to to tell when we drove past. Mixed answers on the internet.

All the detail! Why is it closed mostly.

Tramzels! I need to know the story behind Bylands Tramway Museum.
@drdrehistorian.bsky.social @adamchapman.bsky.social
I’m looking at you!

Car park filled up earlier than usual this morning (no surprise) buses need to be frequent and connect well for this to work.

Hans Moleman - *chefs kiss

The fabulous team from Scienceworks Museum showing off the Cowley Steam Traction Engine at the Newport Workshops Open Days, held over the Labour Day long weekend.
Shout out to Steamrail Victoria for putting on a fantastic event.
#steam #heritage #museumsvictoria

T&H railways with N-sets - first to do Teacup livery wins!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

Women didn't work maintaining Britain's railways until World War 2, right?

WRONG!

Our ground-breaking new research has uncovered railwaywomen trackworkers of the First World War, for #WomensHistoryMonth.

Read more:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/susan-longma...

The superiority of tangerine over blue and gold is the hill I will die on.

Teacup is the best!

Visited Castlemaine A signal box recently. Fascinated by the technology.
#VictorianRailways #RailwayHeritage #Signalling #Castlemaine

Started the new year the right way with a ride on a 100 year old steam roller.
#steam
#steamheritage

A new t-shirt from my support crew for Christmas.
#PhDLife
#OneYearToGo

Can’t wait for Parkville. So tired of *that* Tram.

#DisabilityHistoryMonth starts today!

The Railway Work, Life & Death project is an important resource for understanding occupational disability in the past, via the railways.

Read more about just a few of the people whose life stories we've explored:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk?s=disability

Newspaper advert with image of train and text “Enter a new era in Victoria’s public transport”.

Smells like hot Melbourne days and a misspent youth.

That’s a “no paparazzi” glare, if ever I saw one!

Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Having flashbacks to the $**** I spent getting my colloquium document back from a corrupted hard drive. Thesis is now in the cloud and on a backup drive and emailed to myself and typed out on an old fashioned typewriter.

Have you ever tried telling a library its catalogue needs correcting. I’m currently banned from entering six repositories.

The Lost Art of Railway Posters: A Journey Through Time | Off the Rails YouTube video by National Railway Museum

Hello, if you've got a spare fifteen minutes we've put together a video on the emergence of the railway poster as a visual medium from the 1840s-1930s that you might enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5is...

Screenshot of a webpage headed "Georeferencing maps from the State Library of Victoria". The page includes an image of a historic map overlaid on a modern digital basemap, and a big blue button that invites visitors to "View the project dashboard to see the latest progress". The introductory text reads: "This is an experimental project developed during my time as Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the SLV LAB. While playing around with IIIF and AllMaps, I wondered if it might be possible to connect a few things up and make it easy for people to georeference SLV's digitised maps. This is the result!".

Help me turn the State Library of Victoria's digitised maps into data! https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/ (bit of a soft launch, so let me know if you see any errors in the documentation...)

Postcard showing boys from the London and South Western Railway Servants’ Orphanage undertaking a gymnastic display outside, possibly in front of Woking mosque.

Interior view of a signal box, with man sat on a stool looking out, next to wheel that operates gates of level crossing.

Man stood in front of railway level crossing and signal box, holding postcards.

Delighted to have worked on a lovely & important story over the last few weeks!

Part of the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project, we've worked with Gordon Churchill on they story of his father, Arthur - including time in a railway orphanage:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...

Slightly different to my usual programming, but we were given the keys to the decommissioned Ararat Signal Box A on the weekend. Felt like stepping back in time.
#VictorianRailways #Signalling #Ararat #RailwayHeritage

Lifted my self-imposed ban from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria’s bookshop for some early Xmas presents - for me! @historyvictoria.bsky.social
#books #melbourne #northmelbourne #history

Little paper cups for drinking water from VicRail train. Tea cup on paper cup.
#ephemera
#VicRail
#TeaCup
#VictorianRailways