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Post WW1 regeneration - a photographic exhibition in London
Roehampton, patients being taught to use new artificial limbs, IWM Making a New World consisted of commemorative exhibitions, installations and experiences at the Imperial War Museum, London....
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Princess Charlotte and Princess Diana, the most tragic losses in British...
Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold Saxe-Coburg, 1816. Royal Collection Trust, WordpressPrincess Charlotte (1796–1817) was born at Carlton House London in 1796, her father being Prince George,...
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Benazir Bhutto - great leader, but exiled and assassinated.
Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir married in 1951 and had 3 childrenBenazir Bhutto (1953-2007) was born in Karachi. She was the daughter of the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the man who went on to lead...
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Ann Rule's (very) close analysis of Ted Bundy's murderous career
Bundy with his long term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendallphotographed long before the first bodies were found in 1974.Vanity FairWhen Truman Capote’s bestselling book In Cold Blood was first published in...
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Was the BBQ invented in Australia? No.. The USA!
Australian backyard BBQin the Australian Women’s Weekly, 1953I was always certain that the BBQ was an Australian invention. So now I have to rely on Alexander Lee instead.The Spanish word barbacoa was...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton: finding the Endurance ship in 2020 in Antarctic ice
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was educated at Dulwich College London in the1880, then joined the mercantile marine service in 1890 and became a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1901. He...
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Museum of Modern Art, New York. What was learned about avoiding future violence?
Visitors at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan were evacuated last week after two employees were stabbed by an angry man. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counter Terrorism...
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My favourite crime programme on tv - New Zealand's Brokenwood Mysteries
Brokenwood (pop c5000) was a fictional town on New Zealand's North Island, only 20 ks from the coast. The show was filmed in Warkworth which doubles as Brokenwood, although many rural towns on the...
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East Oregon University heritage staircase: to be preserved & protected (guest...
Grand Staircase, EOUcompleted 1929EOU LibraryFive tiers, 178 steps and 418 balusters, the Grand Staircase on the Eastern Oregon University/EOU campus in La Grande Oregon, was completed in 1929, just...
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Scotland's colonial project in central America - Darien Scheme 1690s
DarienNew Edinburgh marked in redCentral AmericaDarien logoUniversity of GlasgowWilliam Paterson was born in Dumfriesshire in 1658. He made his first fortune via international trade throughout the...
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Does Vienna have the most spectacular Baroque architecture?
Collegiate Church, Salzburgbegun in 1694, dedicated 1707My family just returned from 2 wonderful months in Europe. When I asked them what their favourite city was, and would they write it up for me,...
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neo-Moorish architecture in Algeria, developed during French colonisation.
Chief postal office, AlgiersOpened 1910Renewed 2018Throughout its history Algeria changed many times, each time absorbing the different civilisations that governed it. In the Middle Ages the dark...
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Madeleine Albright, a great international diplomat, writer & female mentor
Madeleine Albright in orangeForeign Ministers from around the world, Lisbon, 1997Maria Korbel (1937-2022) was born in Prague. Her father Josef Korbel was a member...
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Jimmy Savile - eccentric and loved British TV star but VERY dangerous
Jimmy Savile on tv, 1970ssurrounded by teenage girls, BBCSavile doing his volunteer job in a hospital ward.Daily MailI am reluctant to write this post. In the early 80s I accidentally read a file about...
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Sir Stamford Raffles, the growing British Empire & trade in Singapore
Location of SingaporeNote Malaya, Sumatra, JavaBoth the Dutch and the English were sending regular early C17th teams to the East Indies. But the English soon concentrated on India instead. In 1641...
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When could minority women become air hostesses on US and Australian airlines?
Ruth Taylor,Mohawk Airlines, 1958In the U.S diversity among its flight attendants had been a Pan Am goal for years before it actually happened. Different...
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Orient Express Train, wealth, royalty, violence and sex - 1889
Francisco Maria de Borbón, Duke de Marchena, died 1923WikidataDuchess of Marchena, Maria del Pilar de Muguiro, died 1926GeneanetBy the late C19th, most European countries were connected by rail, yet...
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Great woman in Russian music: Madame von Teck, Tchaikovsky's patron.
In Women in C19th Russia, by Rosslyn & Tosi, told of the lives of women across Russia, from wealthy St Petersburg noble women to Siberian peasants, and their contribution to the arts. It...
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Budapest's Great Market Hall: 1897
My late mother in law came from a small Czech town, yet she loved visiting her uncles in the booming city of Budapest. And although she arrived in Australia back in 1951, she didn’t get back to either...
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NY's Lower East Side, tenements, pushcarts, migrants and modernity.
Crowded tenementsLower East Side of NYPushcars lined Hester Stin front of the shops Rivington St, difficult for traffic to get throughPostcard from the Blavatnik Archive,...
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