Dr Thomas Rolph, became attracted by other (likewise unsuccessful) large-scale land development schemes whereby huge tracts of land would be purchased in England and sold to settlers, and by the early 1840s emigration had picked up of its own accord. In Port Phillip, the bounty...
Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite writers, but I had my doubts aboutLife after Life.It ticked all my boxes as far as books are concerned: time travel (my guilty pleasure) and London during the Blitz. The book focuses on Ursula, who lives multiple lives, each marked by the falling o...
I often found myself closing the book while I was reading it to look closely at the striking image on the front. It’s a miniature of James Thomas Morisset (1780-1852), painted when he was about eighteen years old. Those who loved him must have later regarded it with wistful sorrow, ...
knowing my newly-aroused interest in translation, my husband suggested that I listen toYan Fu: China meets Western liberalism. Yan Fu was a late 19thcentury naval officer and writer who was fascinated with Western philosophy. His translations of works by Thomas Huxley, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mi...
I’ve had enough of America. All my listening this week comes from anywhere other than the Disunited States of America. The History Listen(ABC). This is fantastic!The Scholar’s Hutis about Thomas Shadrach James, a Mauritian born school teacher who worked with indigenous students at Maloga ...
“I was a few years back a slave on your property of Houton Tower, and as a Brown woman was fancied by a Mr Tumoning unto who Mr Thomas James sold me.” Thus begins Mary Williamson’s letter, which for decades sat unexamined in an attic in Scotland until a history student became int...