Uluru (Ayers Rock) is both a tourist icon and a defining symbol of the Australian landscape. Since the 1950s it has been the goal for a pilgrimage undertaken by settler-Australians to Australia’s heart. Described as a ...

Simon Pierse traces the founding of the Royal Watercolour Society, the oldest watercolour society in the world, from its modest beginnings in a coffee shop in London's Oxford Street in 1804 and first exhibition in 1805, ...