The online diary of 19th century labourer James Cox

James Cox was not an extraordinary man, by most accounts. He arrived in New Zealand in 1880, at the age of 30. He worked in a variety of tough, largely unskilled jobs. And he died, in 1929, aged 79. But for the last 41 years of his life, James Cox kept a diary - and for the past five years, the Alexander Turnbull Library has published extracts of that diary, every day, on Twitter. Late last year the project finished - but James Cox's legacy lives on. Jay Buzenberg was involved with the project and joins us to explain a bit more about it.