Gareth Knapman
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
2 new books to digest.
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
2 new books to digest.
So 2 thirds of voters - the overwhelming majority- want a net zero future. That should be the focus.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
So 2 thirds of voters - the overwhelming majority- want a net zero future. That should be the focus.
Just moved some bookcase around on Sunday afternoon!
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just moved some bookcase around on Sunday afternoon!
I so wish this actually said “ great and valorous duds which wrested this Colony”
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I so wish this actually said “ great and valorous duds which wrested this Colony”
Brush-tail possums are migrating to urban areas and becoming rarer in the bush. Like cats they might self domesticate. This Possum was watching us have our dinner in the garden.
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Brush-tail possums are migrating to urban areas and becoming rarer in the bush. Like cats they might self domesticate. This Possum was watching us have our dinner in the garden.
David’s ‘Death of Marat’ was my introduction to academic history writing. I completed my finally year history assignment on it. I learnt that violent revolutionary regimes often find the death of their ideologues useful. This painting is upmost in my mind when I’m thinking of the regime in the USA.
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
David’s ‘Death of Marat’ was my introduction to academic history writing. I completed my finally year history assignment on it. I learnt that violent revolutionary regimes often find the death of their ideologues useful. This painting is upmost in my mind when I’m thinking of the regime in the USA.
The night shift!
September 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The night shift!
In colonial times laws were only for the privileged. Some would say nothing has changed.
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In colonial times laws were only for the privileged. Some would say nothing has changed.
media-entertainment industry presents genocide and act of evil as momentous events with a classical sound score playing in the background. Yet it is the simplicity of a public service note, on the amount of floor space in the museum needed to display trophies, I find most disturbing.
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
media-entertainment industry presents genocide and act of evil as momentous events with a classical sound score playing in the background. Yet it is the simplicity of a public service note, on the amount of floor space in the museum needed to display trophies, I find most disturbing.
Interesting Sir Redmond Barry, the supreme court justice who took a hard line against insurrection in the case of Ned Kelly, wanted to purchase confederate money for the colonial Museum in Melbourne!
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Interesting Sir Redmond Barry, the supreme court justice who took a hard line against insurrection in the case of Ned Kelly, wanted to purchase confederate money for the colonial Museum in Melbourne!
I asked Google AI who were the 2 officers that complained about Raffles in a Java and got this. The result, although wrong, selects the dominance of Singapore in the internet.
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I asked Google AI who were the 2 officers that complained about Raffles in a Java and got this. The result, although wrong, selects the dominance of Singapore in the internet.
French cook book as a pillow!
July 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
French cook book as a pillow!
*me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
*me and my book project
It’s not an armrest. It’s a chin rest!
July 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It’s not an armrest. It’s a chin rest!
July 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Possibly an unpopular opinion, but David Marr needs a good editor - or at least listen to the editor. There are a lot of self-indulgent digressions with limited connection to the topic of the book. I’m a quarter of the way through the book and he’s hardly touched on the topic.
July 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Possibly an unpopular opinion, but David Marr needs a good editor - or at least listen to the editor. There are a lot of self-indulgent digressions with limited connection to the topic of the book. I’m a quarter of the way through the book and he’s hardly touched on the topic.
This is believed to be the oldest olive tree in Australia, planted by Hamilton Hume, at Cooma cottage, Yass. The neighbouring town of Bowning, has one that could be a little older
May 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is believed to be the oldest olive tree in Australia, planted by Hamilton Hume, at Cooma cottage, Yass. The neighbouring town of Bowning, has one that could be a little older
Dutton was a politically dead!
May 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Dutton was a politically dead!
Multicultural making by autopsy in 1870s Melbourne. English people just had a name.
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Multicultural making by autopsy in 1870s Melbourne. English people just had a name.
My cat took revenge for being put in the cattery and pissed on my laptop bag. A new rendition of weapons of the weak!
May 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My cat took revenge for being put in the cattery and pissed on my laptop bag. A new rendition of weapons of the weak!
Blotting paper! Left there when the note take made their last notes!
April 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Blotting paper! Left there when the note take made their last notes!
He clearly died happy, opium, coffee and brandy!
April 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
He clearly died happy, opium, coffee and brandy!
George Augustus Robinson was a paper miser. An example of C19th crisscross writing!
April 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
George Augustus Robinson was a paper miser. An example of C19th crisscross writing!