Pauline Conolly

Imagine the excitement of the 19th century gold rushes in Victoria and New South Wales. The shops would have been bursting at the seams with everything required for a stay at the diggings. Note the  clever branding in the clothing  advertisement below; a Hargrave’s gold mine top...

This is the final chapter in the life of Raymon Campbell Miller. When Miller  was seven years old, his mother began a passionate affair with an Italian Count.  She divorced,  abandoned her son, and left Sydney to marry her lover. Three months after the wedding in Rome...

When Sydney  tutor Raymond Miller discovered his female student Ngaire Payne was ill-prepared to sit entrance exams for medicine, he  came up with a plan.  He would dress as a woman and sit the exams at New England University in her place. It sounds crazy and well…it...

Lilian Beatrice  Simpson was born in Sydney in 1883. She was the  fourth daughter of  Elizabeth and William Parker Simpson (died 1889) English born William was a sculptor and it seems Lilian inherited his artistic sensibility. She dreamed of becoming an opera singer.  In 1901, Lilian married...