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...
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this...
It was in this environment that Banjo Paterson grew up, with his three siblings and cousin, and it was here at Illalong that Rose wrote to her younger sister Nora, who lived with her much-older husband Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior along with her twelve step-children and eight own children. ...
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 Mill and others were celebrated successes in China. However, in making these texts comprehensible ...
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 ...