- Jan 29, 2019
A job lot - occupations from times gone by
This week’s article (more like a list) is another dive into my research with a little sidekick to the left. In other words, I started with looking for the job title of the guy who had to walk around lighting street lamps back in the 1800s (lamplighter) and was distracted by a whole raft of occupations no longer around. It started me thinking of the impact automation is having on our current economic situation and the rather obvious realisation that, of course, what goes aroun
- Nov 5, 2017
Mr F Bevill and his Magic Lantern
One of the things I love about writing is the research and one of the things I love about researching is discovering new nuggets of knowledge. For instance, looking for events and daily news from 1882, I found an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald for Mr F Bevill MA, Headmaster at Royston College used an aphengescope during his lectures on geography at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts. Interesting particularly as one of the characters in my upcoming novel, Crossi