If 2020 has given us something to talk about other than Covid, it’s been history — and, more precisely, to whom history belongs and how we’ve chosen to define it. Well into the modern era, the philosopher Thomas Carlyle’s definition of the subject as ‘the biography of great men’, seems to endure.
Hallie Rubenhold
Transport to Australia was the saving of Carmen Callil’s family
In Oh Happy Day! Callil reveals how one forebear made a small fortune after being banished from Georgian England for stealing hemp

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