Tales from the Grave

This is a story about two people who made a difference to our world in their own realms.

A recently erected headstone stands in the lonely cemetery of Mount Morgans in Western Australia.

Edith Lovett was in her prime when her husband came to her workplace on 15th March, 1910. She was only 26 years old when he aimed and fired

George Adams was a labourer's son, but knew how to network and make money. He became Tasmania's highest ratepayer.

It's a brave woman who, at the age of 20 years old, steps on a ship to travel to the other side of the world, knowing she is leaving behind

If the pharmacy industry had claimed her first, the world would have missed out on the incredible musical talent of Una Winifred Atwell.

Usually when someone goes missing, they're reported to police. What happens when someone is found but no one has reported them gone?

In early September 1842, news had leaked of a daring attempt of mutiny on Norfolk Island.

He was a teetotaller and believed in free trade, going against the beliefs of his own father. He was a Quaker in politics.

Constable Jones was not aware of how his day would go, when he saw a man of medium build walk into the Newcastle police station where he...

It was an event that horrified the Australian population in the 1920s. A father slashes the throats of his three little girls and goes...

Thomas Wells could almost write his own success story. How a convict, charged with embezzlement made it into the good graces of the...

The two men gripped hands as if their lives depended on it. For one of them, that was true.

The shattered headstone of Edwin Cox in Grafton cemetery. Photo: austcemindex At 22 years of age Mary Ainslie arrived in Tasmania with...

What happened to Mary Wilson, daughter of the 'father' of Lismore?

He had a pallid face and weak limbs and suffering visibly while at the Conference.