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By Art and Architecture, mainly on May 11, 2021 in: history, literature
The Silencedby Claudio FavaI remember the commotion of Argentina under the democratically elected Isabel Perón, who served as President between 1974-6 before ousted by a right-wing military coup. There had been 1,500 political mur...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on May 7, 2021 in: architecture, Britain, Christian, history
The C18th was the best age for the English vicarage as the educated Anglican clergy was now living in comfort, in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14). Firstly Queen Anne's Bounty was a fund established in 1704 to augment the incomes of the poorer Churc...
By North Coast Voices on May 4, 2021 in: history
On 1 May 2021 The Saturday Paper reported that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered an urgent review of the board of the National Australia Day Council, established as the Australia Day Committee in 1979. National Australia Day...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on May 4, 2021 in: Australia, family, history, literature
My late father Les was legally adopted in 1939, when he was 17.5 years old. The 5th of 6 children born to a working class family, each of the youngest 4 children was fostered out to an aunt or uncle while their mother was hospitalised (TB?) in the...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Apr 30, 2021 in: architecture, Australia, history, medicine, Melbourne
Villa Parma, Daylesford, 1864 Indigenous Australians were the first to settle in Hepburn Springs and Daylesford (pop c3600) area of Victoria, particularly the Dja Dja Wurrung tribes. Pastoralists didn’t occupied the area, 110km from centra...
By Boing Boing on Apr 29, 2021 in: Video, History, television, tv
In 1938, unusual atmospheric conditions enabled a few minutes of BBC television to be picked up in the United States. An early cine camera, pointed at a TV set, captured the footage that includes BBC announcers, a drama, and the BBC station identific...
By Business Insider on Apr 28, 2021 in: Politics, History
The occasion marked the first time in US history that the Speaker of the House and president of the Senate were both women.