The Tumbrel Diaries

Margaret Whitlam has died at the great age of 92, only a few weeks before she and her husband, the former prime minister Gough Whitlam, woul...

Little more is known about the provincial Hampshire portrait painter George Beare than what appeared in his brief obituary in the Salisbury ...

Inscriptions such as the one at the bottom left hand corner of this fine painting by Cornelius Johnson were often added to Elizabethan and J...

Last Saturday, whilst strolling down Glebe Place in Chelsea en route for Cheyne Walk, I was astonished to come across this blue plaque, whic...

Intimate friends and acquaintances may well be surprised to learn that last Sunday I traveled the 220 miles from Central London to Orford Ne...

One of my most cherished possessions is this simple painting, Three Bush Birds , 2000, by the late Patsy Lulpunda (Anguburra) (Worrora cultu...

Among historical anomalies none is more curious than the English habit of naming distant places “new,” then waiting long enough...

Between 1859 and 1891 her four sons and four of her five daughters produced for Queen Victoria no fewer than forty grandchildren. Of these s...

Here we see The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh arriving at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London only this morning, where Her Majesty has led a se...

Last night, whilst being softly serenaded by my owl, I reflected upon the sheer range and number of different forms of transportation that I...