19 April 2017

Two Darjeeling horsemen: one Hindi mystery

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Amongst a small treasure trove of old photos my grandfather left is one blurry picture which holds a small mystery. It took me a li...
14 April 2017

Jesus: the most significant person in history?

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I n 2013 computer scientist Steven Skiena and the Google engineer Charles Ward published Who's Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really ...
06 April 2017

‘You’ve always been a bit oversensitive’

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One of the tools for self-understanding is to consider what people said of you when you were a child.  While I was tagged as sensitive ...
30 March 2017

Professor Emeritus Nancy Millis, AC MBE: an appreciation

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Nancy Millis graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences from the University of Melbourne in 1945 and obtained a Master in 1946 befo...
23 March 2017

A ‘new’ photo of an Australian Beersheba hero?

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In an earlier post, I wrote about Captain Norman Rae MC , a hero of Beersheba and my ‘Sunday School Captain’. The Australian War Memori...
16 March 2017

Green with Patrick

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The celebration of St Patrick's Day in Sydney was quickly established in the new colony of New South Wales .  By 1795, Judge-Advoca...
14 March 2017

Why do family history?

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First up we need to agree on what family history is. Is it the same as genealogy? A useful distinction to make is that a genealogist ai...
07 March 2017

Sunday School Captain: My glimpse of Norman Gordon Rae MC

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At the age of seven, after a life-changing week-long visit to hospital , I developed an interest in religion. My spleen was eating up b...