Art and Architecture, mainly
Woman artists, war images: Ev Dunbar
Life expectancy 2025 by country & gender
Jewish Saloniki - cultural centre of the Balkans
Emp Rudolf Prague - arts, science, palace
Elmer Bernstein: #1 film music composer?
Boyd art dynasty of women - Shoalhaven
lyrical Russian artist: Isaac Levitan
Smithfield Meat Market London. Keep!!
Samuel Pepys: sex, violence & corruption
Year that changed English literature: 1922!
Gorgeous C19th synagogues in Melbourne
C19th landscape star: Eugene von Guérard
Gustav Stickley: arts & crafts furniture
Monastery of the Ursulines, Quebec
Jews massacred in Sydney; remembered with True Blue in Adelaide
The Edwardians: Age of Elegance Exhibit
Philip de Laszlo, Hungary's finest portraitist! Spy?
Tang treasures from Silk Road capital, Xi'an
Marie Schmolka: Czech, UK & Nicholas Winton.
Helsinki: fine architecture & design, enjoy coffee & sauna cultures
Fred Astaire, sister Adele & Ginger Rogers
Françoise Frenkel's WW2 memoirs
Meret Oppenheim serious, sexy, famous art
clever Irish scientist: Mary Ward 1827-69.
John Curtin: Australian PM's family home
Wallis Simpson: Britain's royal drama
special Melbourne architecture: 1848 ->
Dr R Virchow: pathology, science, politics ....................... by guest blogger
Chagall's stunning stained glass, UK church
great Russian-Australian retailing family
Massacre in Brazil today, by Tom Phillips
Pope Joan, 850s AD. Who???
Lily Safra: wealth, travel & culture Brasil
Amsterd Antwerp Brasil NY TAviv diamonds
Mayflower Pub London - a dream relived
Freddie Mercury: The Final Tribute
World's most liveable city. Hello Vienna!
Maria Anna & Wolfgang Mozart: 2 geniuses?
Stephen Crafti great beach-houses
Jan Luyken: a moralising Dutch artist
Stunning opera festival at Glyndebourne UK
Caravaggio or Finson? Who???
Isambard K Brunel: railways & shipping.
cafe-bookshop in Sydney: a great fusion
Vita Sackville West, Sissinghurst exhibition
Babies' names
Gozo: Malta's second great island
Tel Aviv glorified by Bauhaus architecture
Monte Cristo: colonial Australian manor
"Wonder Wheel" - a great Woody Allen film?
Who are Sovereign Citizens in Australia??
Isaiah Berlin philosopher: Riga->Oxford
Chips Channon: diarist, elitist, pro-Nazi
Stonington - late Victorian Melbourne
"The Library: a World History" - great book
Classy pod homes for Australia's homeless
D.Trumbo: great screenwright blacklisted
Rottnest - West Australia's dream island
Remembering WW1 in Queensland
Hester Bateman's neo-classical silver art
renewed National Portrait Gallery, London.
Australia thanks Karl, Slawa & Eva Duldig
Sleepwalker murder: is he responsible?