If you want to get to know an area better, enjoy history and some gentle outdoor exercise you should consider joining history walks. Historians have been conducting history walks for many years. You can join a walk guided by a historian or you can download the notes for a history walk and do the walk in your own time. This week I joined a history walk conducted by North … [Read more...] about Historians Walk the Talk
Sydney
East of India: Forgotten Trade with Australia
Many Australians would be unaware of how much Indians have contributed to this country. Indians have traded with Australia since the first European settlement; they have lived and worked here for over two hundred years. Yet we don’t often hear about this aspect of Australian history. The exhibition, ‘East of India: Forgotten trade with Australia’ currently being held at the … [Read more...] about East of India: Forgotten Trade with Australia
Reflecting on National Reconciliation Week 2013
“Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place…” The words sung by the a capella choir filled the Sydney Baha’i Temple with glorious harmonies accompanied by the rumbling thunder of the storm outside. I shut my eyes and allowed the sounds to resonate through me. Beauty and emotion intertwined in that moment. The effort to drive through the wind and rain to attend the … [Read more...] about Reflecting on National Reconciliation Week 2013
The Dream of a Century: The Griffins in Australia’s capital
The capital city of Australia is a twentieth century creation. It emerged from a paddock in rural New South Wales one hundred years ago. On 12th March 1913 Lady Denman, the wife of Australia’s Governor-General, stood on the newly laid foundation stones and announced the name of the city to be – Canberra. The city had already been born by the time the crowd gathered in the … [Read more...] about The Dream of a Century: The Griffins in Australia’s capital
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe
There are times when a book creeps up on a reader, nudging itself forward, saying 'read me'. Jill Roe’s biography of Miles Franklin is one of those books. Over the last few years I came across references to this book in many other histories that I read. Then a couple of months ago I was doing some research assistant work and had to borrow it in order to check some page … [Read more...] about Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe