{"id":73006,"date":"2020-12-13T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=73006"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:39:04","slug":"delightful-tales-doug-bradby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/delightful-tales-doug-bradby\/","title":{"rendered":"Delightful Tales of historic humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHOR and historian Doug Bradby has released two small books as part of a new ongoing miniseries <em>Ten Delightful Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bridge Street: The Historic Heart of Ballarat<\/em>, and <em>Merry Christmas from Historic Ballarat<\/em> are 32-page publications \u201cfull of joy, hope and humour,\u201d looking at life in the city between approximately 1860 and 1920.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a gorgeous period of time. Hard work had paid off, people had a few dollars in their pocket, they had some leisure time, and they didn\u2019t know World War One or The Depression were coming,\u201d Bradby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe race through the Bridge Mall, but in 1850, it was the most exciting place in the world, and it changed the world. Tens of thousands of people got an opportunity in life they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridge Street as <em>The Historic Heart of Ballarat <\/em>was fabulous. It never was architecturally wonderful, but it was where Ballarat East and Ballarat West all integrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Merry Christmas<\/em> makes the connection between Ballarat residents now and those living in the same neighbourhoods 160 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the awareness that they were as human, as good, as bad, as funny and as silly as us. I recognise myself in their humanity, and that\u2019s what history does,\u201d Bradby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re living in 2020, reading about them eating Christmas pudding, having funny hats on their heads and playing with crackers in 1860.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the things in the book are so recognisable to what we\u2019ll be doing around the 25th and 26th with child-centred days of feasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Ballarat is almost through one of its most challenging years, Bradby said \u201cit\u2019s time to take a gulp of happiness and experience joy of living\u201d again through literature.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes people will slow down this summer to savour the written word like wine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need things that are a bit lighter, to celebrate how good it is to be able to communicate with other human beings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who can link back to enjoying the simple things in life; picnics, shopping, promenading and travelling, will enjoy this series,\u201d Bradby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re lighter, frothier books than I\u2019ve done before, and I\u2019ve really enjoyed writing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bradby is planning to produce more <em>Ten Delightful Tales<\/em> each month. 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