Art and Architecture, mainly

The HandleBar Adelaide uses vehicles devised by brothers Henk and Zwier Van Laar in Amsterdam in the 1990s. The four-wheel, open frame vehi...

The original house, now called The Cedars in Hahndorf , was built in the late 1870s by Alfred Wheelwright, then he sold the property to a N...

a Lutana Arts and Crafts house, c1922 Britain’s company towns were settled by giant companies for their workers. In 1887 for example, L...

A  flock of 20,000 hungry emus WA, 1932 photo credit: Footnoting History   In the years following WW1 , the Australian Government struggled ...

Federation-style Plantagenet Hotel built 1912-4 Mt Barker  is 360 ks south of  Perth , Western Australia, in the shire of Plantagenet. Fr­am...

15 innocent victims were massacred on Bondi Beach Sydney in a shocking attack last weekend. Excited families had been standing on the Bondi...

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...

Russian Elcon Baevski (1875-1938) was born in Krichev to Hebrew scholar Ezekiel Baevski, went to a Jewish primary school, then high school ...

The Global Liveability Survey is a measure of urban quality of life, published annually by the Economist Intelligence Unit/ EIU. The EIU is...