Art and Architecture, mainly

Although I assumed my post-WW2 generation invented hopscotch , that seems highly unlikely. The earliest confirmed mention of the game actual...

During our first three years of marriage, while working and travelling around Europe, spouse and I lived in Youth Hostels or slept in the bo...

I can remember nearly every novel set by English teachers in high school (1960-65) . But when I recently found a 2006 newspaper article disc...

Kitchen with built-in cupboards and timber benchtops  architectureau Joseph Eichler ’s (1900-74) name became synonymous with the single-...

The Boyd art dynasty began with the marriage of Emma Minnie à Beckett & Arthur Merric Boyd in 1886. Both were already noted painters b...

From the first European settlement in Australia , Jews were arriving with 1788’s First Fleet . The first settlement was in NSW, but soon spr...

Buddhist statues, gilded bronze, 700s,  Changwu County Museum.  In my first post on the Silk Route in China, I concentrated on the Chinese Y...

John Curtin  (1885–1945) was born in rural Victoria to hard working parents and left school at 13. He became involved in the labour move­men...

John Smith's home, Queen St built late 1840s Served as Treasury and Gold Office from 1859 Melbourne was founded in 1835 as a commercial...