Alias Hoffington
I believe I have successfully reconstructed the baroque, Byzantine story of the first Mrs Dyson. I’m now prepared to state my theory and die on this hill if that be my fate. (Hint: I’m probably entirely wrong!)
Choose your own Adventure
This is the tale of two convicts in Van Diemen’s Land. Their story does not have an end yet: happy, sad or otherwise. Can you help?
Winterbottom’s End
Joseph Winterbottom was the old bastard pursued by Oldham police across the border from Lancashire into the West Riding of […]
Steam Powered Luddites
James Dyson had built something of an empire in Western Australia on the back of supplying timber sourced the old […]
Timber!
Timber was the business of James Dyson from his earliest years in Western Australia. A year after his arrival in […]
In Old Hobart Town
If you want to get an idea of what the Hobart Town of 1834, the year that the convict James […]
