"Leisure" Blogs & Blog Posts

Greek royal family opening the 1896 Gamesfollowed by British Prince of Wales and Russian Duchess OlgaPinterestThe first Olympic Games in the Southern Hemisphere EVER were in Mel­bourne in 1956. These Games put our beautiful city on the map, got my f...

Ernest Wertheimer (1852-1927) emigrated from Alsace to Paris in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. Ernest purchased an interest in the innovative theatrical make-up company, Bourjois. Later his sons Paul (1883–1948) & Pierre Wert­h­eimer (...

After the crises of the Maritime Dispute in 1890, Shearers’ Dis­pute in 1891 and the Great Depression of early 1890s, many in Austral­ia’s work­­­ing class believed that their nation could never be a work­ingman’s parad­ise. Some were dr...

Madonna will showcase Lempicka’s art on her Celebration Concert Tour, Lempicka The Musical on Broadway in Mar 2024. An exhibit­ion at San Francisco’s Legion of Honour Museum will reevaluate her style in art history...

Crystal Palace was a glass and cast iron structure in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851.Designed by Sir Joseph PaxtonArchDaily The origins of Crystal Palace in Hyde Park lay in the national exhibitions of the Royal Society of Art...

In Dec 1850 prisoners marched with armed warders from Melb­ourne Gaol ..to The Stockade Coburg which became the new prison. Formally est­ab­­lished in 1851 and largely built by 1864, Pentridge Pr­is­on was the largest prison complex in Victoria...

Alexandria was founded by Al­ex­­ander the Great (356-323 BC). It is Egypt’s sec­ond city and boasts a thriving port on its 32 ks coast­line along the Mediterranean Sea. Even with the high rise buildings and ind­us­t­ry, the sunset over the...