by admin | Nov 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
It has sometimes happened that I have finished a writing project leaving some minor aspect of the research not fully resolved, when time constraints or the apparent complexity of what may be only an incidental issue anyway determines that the matter must be left to a...
by admin | Nov 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the intriguing stories encountered last year, while working on a project for the War Memorial in Canberra on Indigenous service in Australia’s armed forces, arose from a series of images located in the Memorial’s pictorial collection that appeared to record the...
by admin | Oct 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
In mid-September my brother Brett and his partner Del arrived back in Melbourne from a holiday in Western Australia, having just completed a trip to Albany on the south coast. That place has long been on my list of planned destinations, for no other reason than it has...
by admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Research undertaken in connection with particular projects often throw up extraordinary stories which—for reasons of space and relevance—cannot be included in the work which inspired their discovery. Such an instance occurred while researching The High Life of Oswald...
by admin | Oct 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
In May 2016 there were news reports from the United States claiming that the remnants of the 18th century Royal Navy bark Endeavour, used by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of exploration in the Pacific in 1768-71 (during which he circumnavigated New Zealand...
