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Tag: Napoleon

The boat, not the dictator.

Hello Sailor…

Could James Dyson have been crew on a Whaler?

Published August 29, 2017
Categorized as Dyson Tagged Daniel Scott, James Dyson, Napoleon, Stephen Hyde, whaling

It should go without saying

(but unfortunately it needs to be): All content created by Alan Thompson @2016-2021 unless otherwise acknowledged. Copying for private research purposes is fine. Republishing on another platform without prior permission is not.

All the articles

  • How 2020 ended…
  • A little bit of war profiteering
  • New Government House
  • Reconstructing old Perth out of cardboard (so it lasts, this time)
  • What has been left unsaid..
  • Coming eventually in 2020…
  • Going to the Fairies…
  • Grave Matters
  • Won’t you think of the children?
  • Boom time.
  • Alias Hoffington
  • Rename Canning Bridge
  • Choose your own Adventure
  • A Trial on Trial
  • Pavement Archaeology
  • Dyson’s hat
  • A Tale of Three Cities
  • The Sons of Australia Benefit Society
  • Dyson’s Corner (the Second)
  • Our George Dyson
  • Thomas Dyson: The Canny one
  • The Fate of The First Wife, Part III
  • The Fate of the First Wife, Part II
  • The Fate of the First Wife, Part I
  • On Cemetery Hill
  • I demand the right to be labelled a bastard
  • Recognise this face?
  • Astley 3: The Gallant Ship Australia
  • Astley 2: For Sail
  • Astley 1: Orphans of a Perfect Storm
  • When the apocalypse comes
  • The Stranger In the Mirror
  • An Anthemic Ancestor
  • The Smoking Gun
  • Happy Gunpowder Treason Day
  • Dyson’s Hotel
  • Dyson’s Corner (the First)
  • Fake News
  • Winterbottom’s End
  • The Sons of Australia: Foundation and Foulkes
  • Under the Establishment
  • I hate Maitland Brown
  • Francis Armstrong: Thesis
  • Thurso
  • Aberdeen
  • Literally —ing the Patriarchy: Introducing Jane.
  • Kill the Joke (AKA: “You had to be there”)
  • Steam Powered Luddites
  • Timber!
  • The Little Boy Lost: Enter Drewy.
  • Know your Guv’nor
  • Secret Squirrel Business
  • Rottnest Island #1: It’s a start
  • Leetown to Auchterarder
  • CSI Halifax
  • Hello Sailor…
  • “The Poste Restante”
  • Going Postal: The great family rift.
  • All the girls love a soldier
  • In Old Hobart Town
  • Dorothy Dyson Dances
  • Joseph Dyson the Elder: The Respectable one
  • Are you my Mummy?
  • Stuffed
  • Stones in Cumberland
  • Twenty-one Children
  • Too outrageous a coincidence?
  • A Dark Deed in a Damp Land
  • Van Diemen’s Land
  • The Lancashire Hotpot
  • An introduction to the Dysons

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warpedtimeAlan Thompson@warpedtime·
13 Apr

https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/news/dyson-grave-restoration-at-east-perth-cemeteries/

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8 Apr

Should I include historic racist quotes about Aboriginal people in a government report? (With appropriate warning at the start.) To leave them in is to use disturbing language. To leave them out makes some colonists look better than they were. Thoughts?

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warpedtimeAlan Thompson@warpedtime·
31 Mar

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/old-perth-unearthed-in-new-curtin-hive-photo-database/100036426
This is going to be so incredibly useful.
I think I'm going to have to get back into model making very soon!

@HistoricalPanos

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24 Feb

Benjamin! @hsmtpod

Dodgy Perth@DodgyPerth

Mr Spock doing an Aussie accent is the video you need to watch today. https://twitter.com/ben_hr/status/1364463553835462658

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warpedtimeAlan Thompson@warpedtime·
17 Feb

Since we are rubbishing museum signage today, It's as good a time as ever to post this one from the Port Arthur Historical Site in Tasmania, taken back in 2017. I did attempt to contact someone about it at the time but was ignored... as is usual. @DodgyPerth

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