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Monthly Archives: November 2014
More excursions with Evelyn Waugh
Unfortunately, due to overseas holidays and many other activities, not least my own writing, I have not kept up to date with Duncan McLaren’s highly entertaining and informative excursions with Evelyn Waugh. Here are the missing ones in order:
The Soldier’s Story 28 August 2014
The slab and bark hut in colonial Australia
The slab and bark hut is a major feature of colonial Australia. My first ancestors, all from the British Isles, lived in rural New South Wales. The accommodation of my great-great-grandparents Wilson and Jones, about whom I write in FROM PRISON HULK TO THREE BEDROOM HOME would have been a hut like this:
There is much information about bark and slab huts. Interesting sites are here and here.