When I was four years old I found a sixpence on the quay at Poole Harbour. I've been picking up…
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This post was updated on March 9th 2019 with the addition of a postscript: A film about Hamilton's life and…
When Norah Neilson Gray (1882 -1931) taught at St. Columba's School for Girls in Kilmacolm her students called her "Purple…
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In 1918 Australia appointed sixteen official war artists. All were men. Iso Rae - who had lived in France throughout…
All agreed that 1917 had been a sad offender. All observed that 1918 did not look promising at its birth.…