All posts tagged "History"
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1.8KBrunchAlmost a century of serving the south at the iconic Joans Pantry
After almost a decade of serving locals, Joan’s Pantry continues to be a bustling hub of coffee, art and good eats.
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666BarsWhy Adelaide is called the City of Pubs? A local historian breaks it down
Why is it that Adelaide's pubs are so iconic?? Historian Patricia Sumerling unpacks that below >>
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2.0KFamilyBreak out of Adelaide Gaol with its new Escape Cells adventure experience
Try your hand at escaping Old Adelaide Gaol by taking on their new Escape Cells immersive adventure experience.
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3.1KLatestAdelaide Airport opens new display of historic 100-year-old bi-plane, The Vickers Vimy
The aircraft famously made its journey from England to Australia with an all-Aussie crew in 1919 and is now on display as part of the airport's expansion.
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808Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Story of Russia, by Orlando Figes
NON-FICTION: Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship, The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work from the great storyteller of Russian history: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.
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803Books & LiteratureBook Review: Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe, edited by Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
HISTORY: Drawing on a range of archival sources, the essays presented here offer fresh perspectives on Nicolas Baudin's voyage of discovery to Australia.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Persians, by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
HISTORY: THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.
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773Books & LiteratureBook Review: Dancing Before Storms, by Robert T. Harris
HISTORY: These five revolutions shaped the power structures of our modern world. Each time, the elites of the day ignored the warning signs. Each time they continued 'dancing before storms'.
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Opera House, by Peter Fitzsimons
NON-FICTION: Shares the extraordinary stories connected to this building that are as mesmerising as the light catching on its white sails.
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650Books & LiteratureBook Review: About Time, by David Rooney
HISTORY: A horological history of human civilisation, told through twelve world-changing clocks.
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700Books & LiteratureBook Review: Vice-Regal, by Philip Payton
HISTORY: Historian Philip Payton charts the evolution of the vice-regal role from foundation in 1836 to the present day, setting the development of this distinguished office against the backdrop of the State's often dramatic history.
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803Books & LiteratureBook Review: Debesa, by Cindy Solonec
HISTORY: This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, place and culture, and the challenges of day-to-day living on a small sheep station amid huge pastoral properties.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The History of England Vol VI: Innovation, by Peter Ackroyd
HISTORY: Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close.
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981Books & LiteratureBook Review: Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ, by Catherine Bishop
BIOGRAPHY: Annie Lock believed Aboriginal lives mattered, with controversial results. This biography dives into massacres, stolen generations and the thorny problem of Aboriginal missions.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Homecoming, by Elfie Shiosaki
HISTORY: Fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and how they navigated colonisation to hold their families together.
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726Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Magician, by Colm Tóibín
LITERARY STUDIES: Colm Tóibín captures the profound personal conflict of the very public life of Thomas Mann, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Keeper of Miracles, by Phillip Maisel
BIOGRAPHY: For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. But, for Phillip, confronting and overcoming trauma is also personal. A Holocaust survivor himself, he too has unthinkable stories of triumph and tragedy, cruelty and hope.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Vernacular Visions, by Noris Ioannou
ART: A folklife history of Australia: art, diversity, storytelling.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Oh Happy Day, by Carmen Callil
HISTORY: Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustices of nineteenth-century England.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Searching for Charlotte, by Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell
NON-FICTION: The true life story of Charlotte Waring Atkinson: a tale of love, grief, violence and triumph in the face of overwhelming odds.
