The Tumbrel Diaries

I fear I have done Monsieur Gautrot a disservice by hoisting that question mark over his claim to have composed for the Theatre Royal i...

And what of the “grand” concert program assembled by M. and Mme. Henri Gautrot for the Theatre Royal, Hobart Town (above), on Tuesday, May 2...

Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings, and time. He was often represented w...

Two stray references in the Vandiemonian press from the 1830s cast a ray of light upon the imminence of Ovid in colonial letters—and may sug...

When I saw him lately in Melbourne, my colleague David Hansen, formerly senior curator of art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hob...

Upon further reflection overnight, it seems to me that the lamington could easily have been invented, along with other “dainties,” by Lord ...

The domestic arrangements of Lord and Lady Lamington (above, with their pet sulphur-crested cockatoos) at Old Government House in Brisbane...

I have lately heard from a kind reader in Brisbane, Kerry Raymond, who with exquisite tact provides valuable new information about the Ed...

“...A merchant in Dominica and friend of my father’s arrived in London and stopped at my brother’s house (Captain Garraway who traded in Dom...

“...One of my schoolfellows, a daughter of Dr. Gordon in Jamaica, was a relation of Westmacott the sculptor, and she got him to select and p...