General History

The Glory Box of Yesterday Many traditions have been erased by the redefinition of female roles in modern society. Changes in these roles were slow in reaching Kythera, and even though village women were often the back-b...

THE GREEK DIASPORA (page 356) . . . According to Richard Clogg in The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century, the countries with the largest Greek Diaspora population, in descending order, are: United States of America,...

The NSW State election of 1925 had the ‘riff raff of Southern Europe’ ducking for cover, and demonstrated how hard economic times let the racism genie out of the bottle. Here’s how it panned out at Murwillumbah. The peri...

In the early 1920s the economic base of the Richmond-Tweed region started to look pretty shaky. Post WW1 soldier settlement blocks had been created everywhere, substantially increasing the number of dairy farmers and fru...

From, ANTIPODES No 43-44, pp.51-60 Melbourne 1998 An interview with Mr Hugh Gilchrist, the author of the History volumes Australians and Greeks Thank you to Ellen Blunden, the University of Technology, Sydney, and Halste...

AWARDS May 1998: The Archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia awarded Hugh Gilchrist the Gold Cross of St Andrew. June 2003: The Australian Hellenic Council conferred the prestigious Niki Award on Hugh Gilch...

Hugh Ghilchrist and his Australian school - Cranbrook School, Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia. As Hugh confesses in an interview conducted with him by Christos Fifis, published in Antipodes, No 43-44...

REVIEWS Australians and Greeks Volumes I and II By Hugh Gilchrist Selections from reviews “Hugh Gilchrist has virtually set the benchmark for study of major ethnic communities in Australian society and culture” Centre fo...

The Poulos [Tzortzopoulos] Family People who have helped shape and develop Katoomba The fact that Theo Poulos Real Estate is celebrating forty three years in business, only tells half the story about the influence the Po...

Hugh Gilchrist. Ambassador to Greece. Presenting his credentials. hagio-graphy, from Grk. - hagios (saint) - graphy - writing. BIOGRAPHY Hugh Gilchrist was born in Sydney on 8 August 1916. He was educated at Edgecliffe...

Gear ratios and continued fractions It is interesting to speculate how the first century B.C. designers of the Antikythera Mechanism were able to discover the excellent rational approximation 254/19 = 13.36842105 to the...

Images by Bill Casselman. These two images give a schematic version of De Solla Price's general gear plan; on the bottom the color picks out the sub-assembly connecting the sun's motion to that of the moon. The sun mark...

THE TEAM The project has assembled a team with a very broad range of skills, as well as specialists in the archaeology of the region and archaeologists with close community ties to the area. Dr Ian Johnson has been invol...

THE RELEVANCE OF PALIOCHORA Paliochora is of great relevance on many levels. Some aspects of its significance are outlined below Research Significance At the local level, the project will produce information that will he...

QUESTIONS A thoughtful visitor meandering through the lanes of Paliochora stopping at one of the twenty-two churches identified within the town walls may ask: "Why does there appear to be more churches than houses in thi...

Visit the APKAS website at: http://kythera.osu.edu. HISTORY 808.01 Seminar in Ancient History The Island of Kythera through the Ages The Ohio State University Autumn Quarter 2002 Instructor: Professor Timothy E. Gregory,...

The following short article appeared in the Kytheraiki Ithea, July 2003, p. 12, and was written by prominent Kytherian-Australian solicitor, intellectual, Kytherian cultural advocate, past-President and current Committee...

Parthenon Marbles - The Conclusion ..... almost. Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum In the end Lord Elgin died bitter and in debt. The marbles survived not only their removal, the sea journey (including those at the...

Parthenon Marbles - The Conclusion ..... almost. In the end Lord Elgin died bitter and in debt. The marbles survived not only their removal, the sea journey (including those at the bottom of the harbor in Kythera), and t...

Parthenon Marbles Come To England When the French and Turks became friends again it became important to get the marbles out of the country as quickly as possible. Louis Francois Sebastien Fauvel had been released from pr...