HeyJaredThe Scroll
Scrolling through history - small bytes of historical fact and fiction with heart and humour, from award-winning author Alison Lloyd
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‘Dreadful Paintings’ that lit up a country (opens the original)
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You know those moments when you seem to step through time? This week, I was in the library researching for my novel.* I lost at least half an hour poring over colour plates of nineteenth century artists who painted in my area. A wistful shaft of light and peace filtered into me. To join me in this reverie, read on. The suburb next to me happens to be where a famous Australian art movement got going. I mentioned the artists last month, when I wrote about the cultural contribution of early unions.
What you might not know about Victorian era activists - the history of 'the people's palace' (opens the original)
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You probably don’t think of Australia as a radical place. Unlike Europe and America, we’ve had no revolutions to speak of. No civil wars. (Unless you count colonial massacres and Aboriginal resistance, neither then officially recognised.) That doesn’t mean nothing happened here! Immigrants to Australia have long been a hodgepodge of adventurers, opportunists, and hopefuls. Some crossed the world willingly, others not so. Mostly law-abiding, but not always.I recently went on a tour of Melbourne’s
New historical fiction for you (opens the original)
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If you’re on summer holidays, or you wish you were, put your feet up and read! I’ve got fresh historical fiction for you, here. However, the public version cuts off after a teaser. Subscribe to read the whole thing.Subscribe nowMy fellow writer, and much-appreciated critique partner Leonie, said it’s ‘a lovely story with strong imagery, sad and hopeful at the same time.’ No AI went into the writing of it. The words are handstitched by me.As to what it’s about — may
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