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Thanks to Ted Geier for the amazing history of Smithfield Market, London. The first written record of a weekly live stock market was 1174. Thomas Becket’s clerk described the area as a smooth field where there was a weekly sale of fine cows h...


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At Magdalene Cambridge, Samuel Pepys' own college, the Pepys Library was a rare example of a C17th private library and one of the most significant collections of books and manuscripts in British history. The diary, written in 1660-9, was found in this college in 182...


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From the first European settlement in Australia, Jews were arriving with 1788’s First Fleet. The first settlement was in NSW, but soon spread to Tasmania and then Victoria. Along with explorer John Batman, founder of Melbourne, Jewish Joseph Solomon was a member of Port Phillip Society. It was in that society that Solomon with Batman rec...


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The World Broke in Two: the Year That Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein, 2017 wanted to cover the intellectual achieve­ments and personal dramas in the life of famous British writers, Virginia Woolf, T.S Eliot, E.M Forster and ...


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Vienna-born Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901) toured Italy with his father and teacher Bernhard von Guérard, painter of miniatures to Emperor Francis I of Aust­ria. In 1830-2 Eugene lived in Rome, studying traditional landscapes under Giovanni Battista Batti. Any Poussin-type influen­ces in von Guérard’s mature work came from Bat­ti’s great pas­s­ions ...


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