The other day I was searching through boxes of old photographs and came across a bundle of colour negatives which turned out to be photographs that I had taken of the Royal Alexandra back in 1988. It would have been great to have had them when I wrote the blog post on theformer Royal ...
“the game for its own sake” represented an extension of rational recreation into the sphere of sports, particularly as developed in thepublic schools, which in this period were reformed so as to institute a sense of public duty and private responsibility among the propertied classes. The cult...
Founded by Valentin Haüy (1745-1822) to educate blind students, the National Institute was the first school of its kind. Valentin Haüy was a pioneering figure in the field of education and accessibility for the blind. His interest in their welfare was sparked by a chance encounter with a g...
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Victorian Architecture Awards. Victorian chapter president David Wagner said the standard of submissions in 2023 appear to be even higher with sophisticated responses to context, form, space, materiality, technology and ...