Explorations – No 34 Jun 2003

(issued February 2004) IVAN BARKO, Foreword MARIE AND JOHN RAMSLAND, Visitors with “an unusual charm”: French Celebrities at the Australia Hotel, 1891–1932 The authors, both of the University of Newcastle, explore the French associations of the now-defunct Hotel Australia in Castlereagh Street in Sydney, focusing on its foundation late in the nineteenth century and its […]

Explorations – No 32 Jun 2002

(issued September 2002) IVAN BARKO, Foreword KENNETH R. DUTTON, Henri Rochefort and his Companions in Australia Professor Dutton’s study details the short but notable trip made by Henri Rochefort and his companions to Newcastle and Sydney and their reception there in March and April 1874 after their escape from New Caledonia, where they had been […]