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Bonegilla is a rural area on the western shore of Lake Hume in N.E Victoria. The nearest large township is Wodonga Vic, 9 km to the west and c12 km from Albury NSW, on the southern bank of Murray River, the border between the two states. Bonegilla primary school opened in 1876, a railway connection (1889)…
Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858–1929) was the son of poor Irish immigrants who married in Boston in 1849. Originally a saloon-owner in Boston who expanded to own a whiskey importation business, Patrick Kennedy made a good living in alcohol, and became the first family member to enter local politics. When Prohibition became law in 1920, importers…
St Andrew Square Edinburgh was built by 1781, an integral part of James Craig's scheme for New Town. For a long time, the square's gardens were accessible only by very desirable inhabitants of the surrounding homes.The Melville Monumentin the centre of St Andrew Square EdinburghThe Melville Monument is a large column and statue, built by 1827…
The text of Auld Lang Syne is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns (1759-96) in 1788 but based on an older Scottish folk song. In 1799, it was set to a traditional pentatonic/Scots folk melody, probably a sprightly dance in a much quicker tempo. I hope this was correct because the slow version is…
Bruno Bettelheim Tantor mediaBruno Bettelheim (1903–90) was born in Vienna, son of a middle-class Jewish lumber merchant. He entered Vienna Uni, but was forced to leave to take over his family business when his father sickened. In 1930, he married school-teacher Gina Alstadt, a disciple of Anna Freud.During the 1930s Bruno and Gina took care of…
Truganini in shell necklace, 1866 - jpgin The AustralianTruganini (1812-76) was born on Bruny Island Tasmania near the mouth of the Derwent River, in her tribal territory. Truganini was a daughter of the leader of the Bruny Island peoples, Mangerner. She grew in her people’s traditional culture, even though Aboriginal life had been disrupted by…
Ripponlea Mansion was built for Frederick Sargood (1834-1903), a man who became rich selling soft-goods on the Victorian goldfields, wife Marian and 9 children. The property designed by Joseph Reed, Melbourne's most important architect then. Rippon Lea was built when there was much wealth in Victoria from the gold boom. This led to the building…
Sheep arrived in Geelong in 1832, before it was proclaimed a town in 1838. When it was developing as a Victorian port, Australia was still a series of separate colonies which levied customs duties on goods coming from overseas and goods passing between colonies. For some years, all customs clearances had to be made through Williamstown, forcing…
On 13 July 2023 the British Library will host the 5th Annual Graham Nattrass Lecture, co-organised with the German Studies Library Group. The theme of this year’s lecture, to be given by Dr Alexandra Lloyd of Oxford University, is the anti-Nazi resistance group Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose); 2023...