Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Archduke’s travels

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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated a century ago today by Serbian extremists. It was one of the most infamous acts in history sin...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Russian cavalry and jams

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Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Canadian prime minister who played a key role in overseeing his country’s status from colony to nation, ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Astronautics is my life

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Archie Edmiston Roy, a Scottish astronomer, was born 90 years ago today. Although successful and widely published as an astronomer, he was b...
Monday, June 16, 2014

And so made significant

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Sir John Cheke, an English classical scholar and statesman, was born exactly 500 years ago today. He left behind no diaries, but he is credi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Senior’s conversations

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Nassau William Senior, a London lawyer better remembered as a pioneer of political economic thinking, died 150 years ago today. He had a gre...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Weeding quicks

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It’s a quarter of a millennium ago that Thomas Rumney was christened in Cumberland. Although he spent a decade or so working for a counting ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

How the other half lives

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Today marks the centenary of the death of Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who shocked New York society in the late 1880s with his reportage o...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

This violent typewriter

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Happy 70th birthday Jimmy Boyle, the famous Scottish criminal-turned-artist who now lives in France and Morocco. Although he found fame and ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Diary briefs

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Diaries of Major Frederick Tubb VC - Australian War Memorial , ABC Canberra Bob Carr’s ‘indiscreet’ diary revelations - Sydney Morning He...