Things to do Thursday: Check out what's new in Trove!

New year, new reading.

The folks at Trove are always working hard to bring us ever more digital resources that we can access from anywhere with an internet connection. Despite the challenges of recent times, they have continued to deliver, as always! Check out what’s new in February.

Man and two boys reading 'Australasian' newspaper, country edition, 1910-1920.
Photograph by Lindsay Cumming, courtesy of State Library Victoria.

Many Victorian newspapers have been digitised for the first time, and are now available to access through Trove. Several of these digitisation projects have been funded by family history organisations or local historical societies, who are now able to share their physical resources with us in digital form. One close to home example is the Brunswick and Coburg Leader, from 1914-1921- now you can discover what was going on in our neighbouring suburbs around that time! A quick search for some Moonee Valley suburbs in this publication delivers such gems as- Labor’s victory in the 1914 Essendon Election, a delightful outing for the Brunswick Angling Club for a picnic in Keilor in 1915 and the Coburg Bowling Team’s win over the Moonee Ponds team in 1917.

Trove have also added new collection features to their ever-popular collection of full-text digitised Australia Women’s Weekly magazines, to improve the searchability of these resources. You can now search for articles within the magazines, and browse the iconic Women’s Weekly covers.

Australian Women's Weekly cover- February 17th, 1945

There’s always something new to discover when searching Trove, so get clicking and see what you can dig up!

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