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Burke and Wills and the NHBS Connection

By on 25, August, 2011 in About NHBS, LibraryPro, Title Information

NHBS is on Wills Road, on the edge of Totnes, a small town in Devon. Wills Road is named after William John Wills, of the Burke and Wills expedition, who famously perished in the wilds of South Australia in 1861 at the age of 27. Wills was born in Totnes, hence the name of the [...]

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