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Spanish Flu in Australia

This terrible pandemic occurred well after the Edwardian era, but I thought that I'd include the link to my article anyway: Spanish Flu in Australia.

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The Long Struggle of the Shopgirls

 ‘Nine-tenths of the fallen women in London were once shop assistants,’ Lord Brabazon said in 1883. Denise, the heroine of Zola’s famous novel Au Bonheurs des Dames, certainly had a struggle to keep...

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Would You Like To Buy An Unchanged Edwardian House?

 I am sure that the price of this Edwardian house, inhabited for a long time by an artist, will soar!

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Coolgardie and the White Plague

 Tuberculosis, often called the White Plague along with several other infectious diseases, swept through Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Something needed to be done to...

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