Reliving history
Doll Hospital needs new homes for ‘patients’ as it prepares to shut after 140 years
The Doll Hospital has been a refuge for Melbourne’s chewed-up dolls, torn teddies and worn-out toys, but they are preparing their final farewell.
- Rachael Ward
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Olympian’s Aussie rules pilgrimage to 11 VFL grounds in eight hours on foot
Chris Shinners’ pilgrimage through Aussie rules history offers a ground-level insight into the evolution of the game and the city it took over.
- Rachael Ward
Kate McClymont has been threatened, ridiculed and abused. But that’s not what brought her to tears
Our youngest to our longest-serving journalists reveal what it means to work at the Herald and some of their big, memorable moments.
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- Herald turns 195
Granny or grandpa: The person who knits together the purls of witdom
We tried to find out who Granny really is. And failed. Those who know will never reveal the secret. All we know discovered is that granny likes to knit and watch violent television with a cat on her lap. Clever Granny.
More than mugshots: Project brings forgotten women in from the margins
Historian Sean Reynolds is calling for a re-think of women dismissed in the annals of history as villains or immoral.
- Carolyn Webb
‘A story that unites generations’: Why do Titanic artefacts draw crowds halfway across the world?
From the Hollywood blockbuster to documentaries exploring what occurred in the aftermath, and some weird yet entertaining spinoffs, the Titanic’s tale remains relevant more than a century on.
- Holly Thompson
How teacher’s Google search finally solved 195-year-old Australian mystery
The wild tale told in court had never been corroborated. Then, thousands of kilometres away and almost two centuries later, Nick Russell turned on his computer.
- Lisa Visentin
How a bunch of Australian convicts became ‘the most wanted men in the world’
When the Tasmanian convicts seized the colonial Cyprus brig and made a daring dash for freedom across the Pacific, they unwittingly set off the first known encounter between Japan and Australia.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Heritage
The Sydney homes being knocked down, and the people keen to immortalise them
As tens of thousands of dwellings are flattened in the push for density, there are moves to document these soon-to-be-bulldozed buildings and streetscapes.
- Julie Power and Nigel Gladstone
‘Grave robber’ posed for cameras as he pillaged human remains
The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the pillaging of Aboriginal burial sites, as revealed in this edited extract.
- Martin Thomas