The Australian Season is in full swing at the British Museum in Bloomsbury, with many more events still to come. In the Walkabout Trail, a few exhibition items – including a plant from the forecourt garden, and a bark shield – have been singled out for special examination, with brief , downloadable audio guides. The Baskets and Belonging exhibition… [Read more…]
May 6, 2011
For the homesick Australian, or the botanically curious, head to the forecourt of the British Museum for a pick-me-up dose of antipodean greenery and the scent of gum leaves. The Australian Season has kicked off with the opening of “The Australian Landscape”, put together with the help of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The garden is free, open daily… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
Question: What do Sydney, New Zealand, the antipodean novelist Katherine Mansfield, Prussian aristocracy, Bertrand Russell’s brother, Bloomsbury, Bette Davis, H. G. Wells and Hollywood all have in common? Answer: Elizabeth von Arnim. The woman who links all these things was born Mary Annette Beauchamp (1866 – 1941), in the New Zealand township of Kiribilly Point. Her parents, Henry Herron Beauchamp… [Read more…]
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June 8, 2011
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