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Excited to announce I will be launching a new typewriter book at the Australian Typewriter Collectors' Convention 2026 at Wollstonecraft in Sydney on September 26.

A client brought his late uncle's 1927 Royal portable into the workshop this morning (serial number P32950).

Around the time my dear friend Geoffrey Borny announced he was to direct a season of the Canberra Rep’s The Glass Menagerie, I chanced upon a copy of the 1978 book The World of Tennessee Williams, edited by Richard E.

VISITORS to the typewriter museum invariably express astonishment when the origin of the “Shift” key on a computer keyboard is demonstrated to them.

It’s coming up this month to the 91st anniversary of Jesse Owens’s remarkable achievement of establishing six world records on the one afternoon at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

There was I preparing to write a post in praise of Japanese-made typewriters.

ON THE day I was born – 78 years ago yesterday – a young man in Detroit, Michigan, turned his life around.

So pleased to see that Margaret Talbot, a 22-year veteran staff writer for The New Yorker, has taken the trouble to check the facts laid out in my ozTypewriter blog posts of September 2020.

Typewriter historian Michael Adler as a 12-year-old "violin genius", in Sydney in 1947.

The groundbreaking typewriter historian Michael Hugo Adler died on the Fourth of July this year, aged 90, on the Greek Island of Mykonos.

Today, April 25, is Anzac Day, and many New Zealanders will be honouring their war dead.

Further to my post yesterday, today I received from Laurie Cox of the Stroppel Hotel and Mineral Baths in Midland, South Dakota, these images of Julia Talledge at her Oliver No 9 typewriter.

Of the 2937 posts on this blog, one that I am most proud of was published on March 13, 2019, under the heading, “Betsy Beaton, The Boy With Green Hair and the Underwood 6 Typewriter”.

I’ve been asked to service before sale this 1903 (serial #302981) Underwood 5.

World Typewriter Day was marked yesterday and merely acted as a reminder that Latham Sholes’s earliest patents were barely practical and needed a lot of work before a fully functioning typewriter could emerge.

Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist known for her interviewing ability.

The "automatic return" Halda Barking mad?

It's a very long time since typewriters featured so heavily on our television screens.

The 1864 Mitterhofer machine was on show in the exhibition "Mountains, People and the Economy of the Ostmark" in 1939.Today the 200th anniversary of the birth of early typewriter inventor Peter Mitterhofer is being marked in his home town of Parcines in t…

My dear friend Gary McGill, originally from Dillmanstown outside Kumara, was, I believe, the only male born in New Zealand on the same day that King Charles III entered the world.