But for Victoria, and coincidentally for food, 1861 was the most critical year. Prince Albert died and the Queen withdrew from public life, embarking on 40 years of wearing black, ruling half the ...

His remarkable new anthology, Many Such as She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One, arose from Sharkey’s interest in civilian poets’ responses to the war that produced those ...

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a six-part series. Lt. McFaddin had been drilling members of Company I when news of the armistice arrived. They were overjoyed with the news and ...