One of the new entries on the Dictionary is a biography of Robert Brodribb Stewart Hammond by Dr Meredith Lake. The well-known rector of St Barnabas's Anglican Church from 1918 to 1943, RBS Hammond's 'practical Christianity' led him to found a number of organisations to help Sydney's destitute and homeless in the first half of the 20th century, including  the Hammond hotels and the Pioneer Homes Scheme (the nucleus of the suburb Hammondville in western Sydney). Meredith's new book Faith in Action: HammondCare provides further details about Canon Hammond and the history of Hammondcare, the independent Christian charity that today services a wide range of people with complex health and aged-care needs, through dementia and aged-care services, palliative care, rehabilitation, and mental health programs. An illuminating interview with Meredith about her work

is available on the Author Q&A blog of our friends at Inside History :  http://www.insidehistory.com.au/2013/03/author-qa-meredith-lake-faith-in-action-the-story-of-reverend-hammond/ The story, told in the book, of the relationship between Arthur Stace & Hammond, and the photograph from the HammondCare Archives of Stace in the Chippendale Hammond hotel which he managed, has been garnering great press coverage too. 'Two lives and a city intertwined for eternity', Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2013 The book is available now from the publisher  Hammond Press  and all good booksellers.