History
Life’s journal
Sarah Mitchell died quietly on September 10, 1946. You will not know her nor, at the time, would you have noted her absence ...
Lynn Davies was an archives-collections manager and librarian at the University of Tasmania for more than two decades. With a background in science, information management and curating object collections, she explored cultural art-science themes with an emphasis on the freely-accessible digital environment. Passionate about late 19th and early 20th century Tasmanian social history, Lynn Davies was and continues to be a researcher, writer, editor and digital collections curator. She has published biographical articles, encyclopaedia entries and digital archives about Tasmanian men and women, and has co-edited two books, including the Royal Society of Tasmania’s Mapping Van Diemen’s Land and the Great Beyond.
Lynn Davies was an archives-collections manager and librarian at the University of Tasmania for more than two decades. With a background in science, information management and curating object collections, she explored cultural art-science themes with an emphasis on the freely-accessible digital environment. Passionate about late 19th and early 20th century Tasmanian social history, Lynn Davies was and continues to be a researcher, writer, editor and digital collections curator. She has published biographical articles, encyclopaedia entries and digital archives about Tasmanian men and women, and has co-edited two books, including the Royal Society of Tasmania’s Mapping Van Diemen’s Land and the Great Beyond.
