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  • Irrepressible Julia Margaret Cameron, at peace in Bogawantalawa

    Irrepressible Julia Margaret Cameron, at peace in Bogawantalawa

    George Braine (2022)

    Some years ago, my sister, brother-in-law and I drove to the Dimbula area, visiting Anglican churches and graveyards looking for evidence of our ancestors. Read More

  • THE END OF A CORPORATE GIANT – THE STORY OF WALKER SONS & Co. Ltd

    THE END OF A CORPORATE GIANT – THE STORY OF WALKER SONS & Co. Ltd

    Hugh Karunanayake (2022)

    The founder of the firm, John Walker, was born on 24 August 1819 in Doune, Scotland, the seventh child of James Walker, a cobbler, and his wife Charistina (nee Strang). Read More

  • THE STORY OF THE NORTHWAYS – PIONEERING PLANTERS

    THE STORY OF THE NORTHWAYS – PIONEERING PLANTERS

    Hugh Karunanayake (2022)

    The four generational links that the Northways had with the plantation enterprise in Ceylon ended with the death of the last of the Northways in Sri Lanka, that of Michael Northway in 1995. Read More

  • Some History of an Australian Family in Colonial Ceylon

    Some History of an Australian Family in Colonial Ceylon

    Bill Mackie (2022)

    I have two books that depict Ceylon/Sri Lanka in two different periods and from different aspects; they inspire me to discuss my family’s connection and my birth in Ceylon. The first has a title pointing to the fascinating environment in which my parents lived early in the twentieth century. Both books show the multicultural nature of Ceylon’s society that began centuries before that of Australia, Read More

  • Ken Murray - Celebrating a Legend

    Ken Murray - Celebrating a Legend

    A Tribute from Friends (2022)

    K.J. Murray recently retired from planting, having completed what is unarguably the longest unbroken career on record as an active planter, spanning the period 1962 to 2021. His storied journey through the industry straddles three distinct eras; firstly, the best of the pre-nationalisation period, followed by the State management era and, thereafter, the Regional Plantation regimen. Read More

  • Travails of an early coffee planter

    Travails of an early coffee planter

    Hugh Karunanayake (2022)

    If one lived in Sri Lanka in the mid-1900s, a name such as F.L. Dick would have raised more than a few titters. The unfortunate man lived in Ceylon a century before such a possibility, in an age when neither ‘F.L.’ nor Dick meant anything other than a mere name. Read More

  • The Pioneering Planters of Maskeliya

    The Pioneering Planters of Maskeliya

    Hugh Karunanayake (2022)

    The economy of Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it was then known, was basically a peasant economy which through the nineteenth century transformed into a plantation economy. The change commenced with the introduction of the first commercial crop, coffee. Read More

  • My Brother Travice

    My Brother Travice

    Monte Holsinger (2022)

    This is not really a eulogy, because to my mind, eulogies in general seem to invest the deceased with virtues and attributes, some of which no one knew about, and all of which confer perfection on the dear departed. Read More

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