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Resolve

Bidisha chats to her guests about their personal experiences of resolve, and considers its complicated relationship to happiness.

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Sharing Nature: Parks for people

Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.

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  • A bell-founder with his stock of bells, mortars, braziers etc. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • A woman holds a pan of chestnuts over a blazing brazier. Coloured etching.
  • A seated and a reclining boy clutching grapes before a brazier. Red chalk drawing.
  • Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Two Indian men, one carrying a brazier, the other in a red tunic. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Market traders selling vegetables, and a man cooking in a long-handled pan on a brazier; beyond, an ancient wall and a rotunda. Etching by J. Pelletier after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
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