Five wartime diaries by women in World War 2
Five extraordinary diaries written by ordinary women in wartime, available from the Cockburn Libraries
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Cockburn History: How to use Intramaps to view 1950s Cockburn
Intramaps is a fantastic resource for doing local history research in the Cockburn area, like finding your old house in Spearwood, seeing what used to be on the land where Adventure World is now, or tracing the changing layouts of roads, railways, and suburbs.
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Cockburn history: Spearwood Agricultural Hall
Spearwood Agricultural Hall was built in 1927, on the land now occupied by the City of Cockburn office buildings.
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Cockburn history: Poppy street signs
As you make your way around the City of Cockburn, you will notice poppies have begun to bloom on...
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Cockburn history: WWII onion girls at Spearwood
World War II Onion Girls On a Sunday in November 1942, sixteen young women from the Perth fashion...
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Man Booker Prize Winner 2017
George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction....
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Cockburn Murder Mystery: Robb’s Jetty Explosion 1903
Fire, sabotage, and death at the turn-of-the-century. Robb’s Jetty Explosives Magazine. At...
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Cockburn History: Jandakot Christmas Tree
On Saturday, 22 December 1900, the first annual Jandakot Christmas Tree was held at the...
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Nine novellas to borrow from your library
The novella is making a comeback! Thin enough to slide into your back pocket or handbag and short...
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Book review: The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs
Gladiator meets Clint Eastwood in an alt-historical world where Rome never fell, religious...
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