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Jim Claven

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What OXI Day meant to Australia in 1940

On Saturday 28 October, we commemorate 77 years since General Metaxas said Oxi to Mussolini’s ultimatum to enter Greece.

Life

Dreams of Pontus

Following their performance at the Greek Centre, Jim Claven goes one-on-one with Thessaloniki’s Christos Kaliontzidis and Andonis Pilalidis about Pontian music.

Features

To Erythrae and the fair shores of Greek Ionia

Many modern travellers are aware of the great Greek settlements on Asia Minor’s Aegean Coast. But few know Erythrae was once the most important of these cities.

News

William Davis’ journey to Gallipoli

A tale of Trades Hall, Lemnos and the bloody fields of Krithia.

Features

A grave in Mani

The fatal journey of Prahran’s William Salter.

Features

Discovering Lemnos’ Australian Pier

Built by Australian soldiers, the pier was one of the first pieces of infrastructure erected on Lemnos by the Allies.

Life

On George Orwell, Democracy and Greece

Jim Claven on why George Orwell’s message in 1984 remains as current as the day it was written.

Features

Sailing to Symi

As historian Jim Claven sails through the Greek island of Symi he transports us from the present to the past.

Features

Captured

The lost story of the Anzac prisoners in the Argolid in 1941.

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