Revealed: the life of flaxen-haired Charlotte Faunce
Artist Jiawei Shen is widely known for his portrait of the Princess of Denmark, Mary. He has also painted a woman worthy of the title of “Princess of Canberra” and for the first time it will be on public display on May 4, reports NICHOLE OVERALL.
Remembering the brave local lads lost to the region
With the centenary of the signing of World War I's Treaty of Versaille, officially heralding peace (not just ceasefire)it's a poignant time to think on those local bots who didn't make it home, says Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL.
Unmasking Mr Laughlin’s link to Mr Lawrence
In some whimsical research, STEPHEN HOLT unmasks his gruff, old headmaster as a cousin of a man who got to look after the great writer DH Lawrence (and his beard) in Thirroul
Yesterdays / Goodbye war, hello plague… the hell of Spanish Flu
Goodbye war, hello plague… "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL recalls the hell of Spanish Flu.
Opinion / Unmasking Mr Laughlin’s link to Mr Lawrence
In some whimsical research, STEPHEN HOLT unmasks his gruff, old headmaster as a cousin of a man who got to look after the great writer DH Lawrence (and his beard) in Thirroul
Yesterdays / A Royal toast to the teetotalling King O’Malley
IT was a teetotalling Canberra advocate who proved himself something of an enemy of its people but one of the greatest of friends...
Attention! Memories of the wilds of Weston
"As a teacher with the NSW Education Department, I was posted to the Weston school for the last couple months of 1972 (NSW ran education in Canberra back then)," reminices PAUL COSTIGAN
Is ordinary Joe our most forgotten PM?
What's in a name? Notoriety if you're James Cook; nothing if you're Joseph Cook, the prime minister who STEPHEN HOLT reckons we've all but forgotten.
Yesterdays / Better than all the rest…
AUSTRALIA'S greatest sportsperson? While the first thought might be Bradman or Thorpie, it's a “Queanbeyan girl” who can lay as much claim to that...
Overall / It’s the season to be looking skywards
"Given the time of year, best keep your eyes peeled and your smartphone at the ready next time you're hanging out the washing – and be sure to post before the men in black arrive," writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays / It’s that season to be looking skywards…
"Given the time of year, best keep your eyes peeled and your smartphone at the ready next time you're hanging out the washing...” writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays / The great, ghostly hoax of Government House
“He has been seen from the dining room on cold, dreary nights when the breezes whistle down on Canberra from snowbound Monaro ranges. In...
Yesterdays / Patience proves a virtue for the little Burra church
IT'S charming and historic and, having just marked a most significant milestone, comes with more than its share of mysteries – and a miracle,...
‘Kingo’ preservation on the agenda
CANBERRANS often the lament the lack of real pubs in the ACT, so preservation of the cherished "Kingo" – the Kingston Hotel – will...
Yesterdays / Bones and murder most grisly at Sawpit Gully
THE skeleton was believed to be 150 years old and since the early 1840s it had lain unknown and undisturbed beneath the homes, businesses...
Yesterdays / Echoes of ‘the dismissal’ as Gough dragged to court
"It would be Whitlam who'd have the last word... his Queanbeyan pronouncement was as quotable as his Canberra one of three years earlier," writes Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays / The mysterious case of the Michelago poisoner
Did she? Didn't she? Ada Bunfield found herself in the dock after her teacher husband met his untimely end, the victim of strychnine poisoning, writes NICHOLE OVERALL
Yesterdays / Honouring the cream of Queanbeyan
Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL says Queanbeyan punches above its weight when it comes to turning out stars.
Yesterdays / Farm boy who conquered the world
HE was a simple farm boy from Michelago and yet it was the commanding persona – physical and otherwise – of the man he...
Macklin / Echo of racism amid our hidden history
"It was prideful Britishness that was behind their determination to treat the Chinese migrants as interlopers. Indeed, they even passed a law that they couldn’t marry indigenous Australians!" writes author ROBERT MACKLIN
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Four musos shine through a concert of blemishes
In a city of almost half a million people and one of the most affluent societies in Australia, Canberra currently has an orchestra which is not full-time and not up to scratch, writes TONY MAGEE.
