I love reading about history. The more I read, the more I realise how much I don’t know. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are …
Carny Knowledge (The Secret History of Melbourne) Read more »
Australia is now at war. Our duty is quite clear: to gird up our loins and remember that we are Britons. – Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia, 1914
From Warriors of Medieval Japan by Stephen Turnbull Head collecting is a tradition found throughout samurai history… When a battle was won, the taking, recording and presentation of these ghastly trophies was as systematic and as thorough as the battlefield …
Who Would Have Thought Collecting Severed Heads Would Be So Difficult? Read more »