Pauline Conolly

Visits to the dentist these days are vastly different to those of my 1950s childhood. However,  this does not guarantee that the experience will be any less horrific. A DENTIST VISIT DECADES LATER It all began with a broken tooth, which left a fifty year old filling...

John and Hannah Duff  lived in a hut on Spring Hill Station in the Wimmera region of Victoria. Their three children; Isaac (9) Jane (7) and Frank (4) often went  into the bush  to gather bunches of twigs  for their mother, who used them to make simple...

When my partner Rob and I were visiting  New York some years ago we spent a rainy morning in  Bloomingdale’s department store. It was serendipitous, because I found a pair of classic tweed pants I had searched  for unsuccessfully in Sydney. I wear them to this day;...

We hear very little about individuals who fought in the  Boer War, sometimes referred as The Transvaal War.  One notable exception  is  the story of Breaker Morant. Unlike the two World Wars,  there are no detailed service records.  Letters home published in local newspapers are the best...