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• Dunera and its Jewish Internees in 1940

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 20:25 in Jewish, australia, britain, art history, ww2

  The BBC said in 1940 thousands of Germans, Austrians and Italians in Britain were sent to camps set up at racecourses and incomplete housing estates, such as Huyton outside Liverpool. That many of the enemy aliens were Jewish refugees and therefore h...

• 19th Century Amusement Centres: healthy living, sport, fun

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 04:49 in australia, usa, vienna, scotland, 19th century, universal exhibitions

  The concept of "healthy living" witnessed the peak of its development by the end of the C19th and early C20th. Once most people had left the countryside and moved into city life, the seaside held a held a special position in peoples’ thinking as a ...

• Women\'s Cultural Salons: literature, music, art, politics

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 02:19 in music, women, literature, art history, salons

  I have been fascinated by the range of creative talent and interest that salonieres managed to get together in the privacy of their homes, largely during the 1795-1905 era. These women may well have had important fathers and husbands, but I am certai...

• Vienna\'s Ringstrasse: 1860-1890

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 21:47 in architecture, history, vienna

  A very young Emperor Franz Joseph came to the throne of Austria in 1848 and reigned for a long 68 years. Franz Joseph made a great difference to the look of his capital city, demolishing the city’s defensive, medieval walls in 1857 to build an...

• Remember Them: Guide to Victoria\'s Wartime Heritage

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 23:34 in books, australia, history, war memorials

  Like historian Garrie Hutchinson, who we will meet in a moment, I had a very powerful moral and political objection to the Vietnam war. My grandfather had been a soldier-translator in the 1914-18 war and my father was an engineer in the 1939-45 war. ...

• George B. Shaw, Fabian Society, London School of Economics

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 03:31 in London, history, britain, fabian society, stained glass windows

  The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 by the best and brightest of Britain’s reformist thinkers. Absolutely anyone I would have wanted to correspond with in late Victorian Britain was a member, including Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Sh...

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