Digger Harman, an Antipodean McGonagall
In the annals of bad doggerel verse one name - William Topaz McGonagall - stands head and shoulders above all others. McGonagall's tortured meters and forced rhymes are so gob-smacking…
The battlecruiser HMAS Australia
The end of HMAS Australia
The Indefatigable class battlecruiser HMAS Australia was the Australian Navy’s first flagship, whose arrival in Sydney in October 1913 is popularly regarded as marking the coming of age of the…
William Fraser in one of his own trick photographs - taking his own picture.
William Fraser, cabinet-maker and photographer
Among the photographers active in Newcastle in the early 20th century, William Fraser deserves a special place. William might be described as a "semi-professional" photographer, since his main job was…