To mark International Women's Day, we explore the life of Ballarat-raised actress, travel writer and author, Gwen Richardson, who is best remembered for her 1925 travel memoir, ‘On the Diamond Trail in British Guiana’.
This post is inspired by the life of Captain Henry Evans Baker, Ballarat’s first publicly recognized astronomer. From his base at the Ballarat Observatory, he made important contributions to this field of science.
This blog post will take us back to Christmas in Ballarat in 1901; a significant year that saw Federation of the Australian states, the death of Queen Victoria and Australia's continuing involvement in the Boer War.
