South Australia differed from other Australian colonies by planning a library for public use, before settlement. Just after the South Australia Act was passed by the British Parliament in Aug 1834, a group of future colonists led by Richard Hanson...
Square dancing teams, c1950 CaliforniaAmericans loved square dancing in the 1930s which grew out of traditional folk dance in the American West and out of folk dances in Scotland. American servicemen took the dance back to the UK la...
Police photographed The Somerton Man straight after people found the body on the beach.  ...
JA Holden & Co was first established in Adelaide in 1856 by James Holden as a leather and saddlery business. Henry Adolph Frost joined as a business partner in 1885, and the company was renamed Holden & Frost Ltd. Many thanks to the ABC a...
Anne-Louise Willoughby wrote her book Nora Heysen: a Portrait very well. The daughter of famous artist father Hans Heysen, Nora (1911-2003) was born in Hahndorf Sth Australia, and received her early art training from her dad...
My goal years ago was to travel on every long, luxury rail trip in the world. And to write each experience up in this blog, achieved so far for Australia, Canada, USA, Japan, Southern China, Singapore, India, Spain, France and Britain.Since then, I r...
Fiji born Don Dunstan (1926-1999) did Law-Arts at Adelaide University, joined the Socialist Club and became deeply committed to social justice, cultural diversity, democracy, human rights and respect for Indigenous people. If I’d be...