Monthly Archives: February 2017

One aspect of life in Australia is the domination of overseas anglophone media. Our bookshops are full of books by overseas authors, our tv of overseas shows, all reviewed in our newspapers, which also recycle work by by overseas reviewers. … Continue reading →

I’ve been rereading Charles Miller’s The Lunatic Express, which is ostensibly a history of the building of what is now the Mombasa Nairobi railway, but is much more than that – essentially a history of the early days of British … Continue reading →

Quite some time ago, we took a long trip out round by Grenfell to look at some sites associated with the bushranger Ben Hall. Well happenstance is a wonderful thing. Yesterday on our way back from Canberra we stopped in … Continue reading →

despite all the years I worked for ANU, I never once visited the Classics Museum. Well, today I did –  it’s a nice but small collection of Greek and Roman pottery, some rather nice Roman glass, the inevitable selection of … Continue reading →