Persons of interest...

Australian vaudeville, Rev F. A. Marsh, Philo-Semitism in Cromwell's England, Washington Territory pioneer Alonzo M. Poe, and the Darjeeling tea industry to 1947 - 'strangers in a strange land'.

18 August 2020

Fred Marsh’s Indian war service

When I was a primary student in the 1960s, ‘Remembrance Day’ – or Armistice Day as mother called it – was the opportunity to wear family med...

27 April 2020

Charles Ansell remembers his time in Darjeeling

In February 1925, Charles Ansell wrote an account of his life which is transcribed below. Charles and my great-grandfather Claud Bald were g...

18 February 2020

Claud Bald’s well-travelled clock

A piece of good luck led me to an object once owned by Claud Bald (1853-1924), my great grandfather. He had carried from India to England a...

29 January 2020

Utopia is a dangerous ideal: should we aim for ‘protopia’?

by Michael Shermer Utopias are idealised visions of a perfect society. Utopianisms are those ideas put into practice. This is where the...

21 January 2020

A Melbourne Masonic mystery part 3: The foundation stone

Part 2 of the story described the Freemasons of Melbourne before they knew they had no place in the foundation stone ceremony for the Uni...

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