Flinders celebrated a milestone occasion last weekend by acknowledging our namesake Matthew Flinders’ 250th birthday.<\/p>\n
To mark the occasion, Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling joined Matthew Flinders expert Dr Gillian Dooley in the Special Collections section of the Flinders Library for a behind-the-scenes look at some of Flinders’ personal items .<\/p>\n
The collection includes a letter from Flinders to his wife, a necklace purchased by Flinders in Mauritius, and a copy of Flinders’ will. You can see the videos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dr Dooley, a world-renowned expert on Matthew Flinders, recently visited Mauritius to follow in Flinders’ footsteps – and just like our Univeristy’s namesake, Dr Dooley felt compelled to write about her experiences. You can read her travel blog<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flinders celebrated a milestone occasion last weekend by acknowledging our namesake Matthew Flinders’ 250th birthday. To mark the occasion, Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling joined Matthew Flinders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":22620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55563,8152,32135,7959,59639,50584,36230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-college-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences","category-fearless","category-flinders-library","category-office-of-the-vice-chancellor","category-staff","category-students"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}