Monthly Archives: June 2024

After last year’s trip to the Pierre Bonard exhibition at the NGV, this year’s burst of Francophilia was a trip to the Belle Epoque exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery. Strictly it wasn’t the Belle Epoque period, which is normally bracketed … Continue reading →

As you might know, as well as my gig at the Athenaeum, I’m back with the National Trust, this time cataloguing the contents of Lake View House. Like a lot of historic properties, it has been ‘dressed’ ie artefacts from … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished Linda Stratman’s 2019 compilation of excerpts from the Illustrated police News. The Illustrated Police News, the ‘police’ in the name refers to crime, the Victorians referred to news of criminal activities as ‘police news’ in much the … Continue reading →

Vicars, especially nineteenth century ones. Often derided, I’m a quiet fan of Victorian vicars, and their  watercolourist daughters. In remoter nineteenth century communities in colonial Australia the Church of England vicar, and it was most definitely the Church of England … Continue reading →