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Glastonbury Tor Photograph: Toby Melville

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Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's main street, blown up by the russians on the 24th of September, 1941. It was part of a long pattern of communist cultural destruction across Ukraine, which included the demolition of medieval cathedrals and churches.

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Yaremche/Яре́мче, Ukraine.

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1930s reporting on Stalin's Holodomor genocide in Ukraine. 1 2

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28th September 1955: Australian ballerina Marilyn Jones

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Autumn Sunrise in Canberra - Australia

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Sunset over Lake Burley Griffin and the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

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Books One and Two in the Brindabella Secrets series from Escape Publishing/HarperCollins Australia.

The Landowner’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets #1)

New South Wales, 1885

When Alice Ryan wakes to find thugs surrounding her cottage, on the hunt for her no-good brother, she escapes into the surrounding bush.

It is wealthy landowner Robert Farrer who finds her the next morning, dishevelled, injured, and utterly unwilling to share what she knows. With criminals on the loose and rumours that reckless bushrangers have returned to the area, Robert is determined to keep Alice out of danger, and insists on taking her into his home-despite the scandal it may cause. Convincing her to stay on with him for her own safety, however, is going to take some work.

What Robert doesn’t expect is his growing attraction to the forthright, unruly woman staying in his home. Before either of them can settle into their odd new situation, their home and wellbeing come under threat and they will need to trust each other to survive. But they are both keeping secrets, secrets that have the potential to ruin their burgeoning love, their livelihood … and their lives.

The Artist’s Secret (Brindabella Secrets #2)

New South Wales, 1887

Peter Rowe’s life is in the city, but his soul is in Australia’s southern tablelands-a place he’s never seen. Taking the new land manager’s position on the thriving estate of Endmoor is the chance he needs to discover what happened to the family he has never met. What he doesn’t expect to find in the bush is his employer’s talented, beautiful sister.

Elizabeth Farrer’s world is changing rapidly. An artist whose work has begun to gain acclaim, her brother’s marriage has made her redundant in her own home and she intends to leave the country and make a life of her own. Her plans would take her far from her beloved New South Wales, but with the arrival of Endmoor’s newest employee-a man unlike any other she has met-she discovers there might just be a reason to stay right where she is.

Just as they conquer their most difficult obstacles, old prejudices rise up and threaten to keep them apart …

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French ball gown, late 1850s.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, even at the point when an extreme modesty reigned, with layers of fabric enveloping the form, evening bodices were extraordinary revealing. Bodices buttressed by boning allowed the neckline and sleeves to be suspended across the shoulders and to hover low on the corsage and back.

Extract from ~ Bare Witness by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, 1996.

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Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

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Nature in western Ukraine. By SonyaHeaneyAuthor.

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Australian Parliament House, Canberra, during the Enlighten festival in 2016.

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Mariupol, Ukraine in December 2020 - fourteen months before the russian invasion.