Recently we received an almost complete set of the magazine “Inside History”.
Unfortunately, eight of the issues were missing – Issues Nos. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 18 and 34.
If any of our readers have one of these they no longer want, we would be most happy to accept the donation.
Have you ever looked closely at the different notes in your wallet, or do you just glance superficially, interested only in the denomination? You all know and recognise the persons depicted on each note, but have you ever looked more closely at the rest of the decorations surrounding the portrait? I must confess that I…
The first day of spring is the little-known but uniquely Australian celebration – National Wattle Day. Wattles have always been part of our country’s landscape and the lives of its people. For Indigenous Australians, wattle trees were a source of food, medicines and wood for many different utensils and weapons. Indigenous peoples of Australia soaked the gum…
One hundred years ago Norman Lindsay wrote the classic Australian children’s book “The Magic Pudding”. The artist himself called the book a “little bundle of piffle” and wrote it only to win a wager with Bertram Stevens. Australian author and artist Norman Lindsay wrote this jolly fable in response to a friend who claimed that…
In December 1916 William Graham Eyles, a former alderman of Drummoyne, was sentenced to death in Sydney’s Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Ellen, who was found hanging by a strap from a bedpost in her house in Courland Street, Five Dock. There were signs of a struggle with numerous bruises on…
Valentine’s Day, or St Valentine’s Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February. Flowers, cards, chocolates, red hearts and romance. That’s what Valentine’s day is all about, right? Well, maybe not It all goes back to a mysterious, third century saint who suffered a brutal fate The celebration appears to have its roots in a…
Driving through the Canada Bay suburb of Rhodes, it is easy to conclude that anything related to heritage has long since been over-ridden by factories and apartment blocks, and what remains is a soul-less landscape and an anonymous past. Too often one reads of areas of historical interest being swept away in the haste to…
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