The raw material of history

Capital history in the news included news of Truth, Power and a Free Press, a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy which documents Australia’s media history so that a conversation about media and the issues affecting our democracy can be started. I am sure this would have met with, the American historian, Henry Steel Commager’s approval:

This is what really happened, reported by a free press to a free people. It is the raw material of history; it is the story of our own times.
— Henry Steel Commager

Acknowledgement: The image above is the printing of the Melbourne newspaper The Age (1878). The image comes from the State Library of Victoria and is out of copyright. See acknowledgement page for full details.

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