by NRB | 5 Aug 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Weather was the determinant of life in Gippsland. It was autumn when we arrived, with pleasant, mild sunny days in which you could do anything out of doors. In the early weeks we had fairly frequent visitors from Melbourne and other parts. We rented an old...
by NRB | 29 Jul 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 1974 I held a one-year lectureship in History at the University of Melbourne. I hated it, from the physical setting to the teaching itself. When I was an undergraduate ten or so years before, the History Department had been housed in the imposing Victorian Old Arts...
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