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What do you know about Richard Edwards (junior)?

Major revamp in progress…

All existing articles can now be found under the Blogs heading.

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(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

  • Bio: Richard Edwards (jr)
  • 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

Words from a twit:

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warpedtimeAlan Thompson@warpedtime·
7 May

Dyson's Swamp: The entire first section of the book (1810-1833) is complete. On my revised schedule for this year I am 2 months late. I'm improving.

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HistoricalPanosOldPerth and HistoricalPanoramas@HistoricalPanos·
30 Apr

@warpedtime @DodgyPerth @ColourMePerth Thanks Alan for posing this great mystery, and to Reece for helping solve it.
BTW: the @StateLibraryWA description was correct, but it wasn't obvious. ;-)
http://oldperth.org.au/#00011363
In the next update we will map this to the Perth Train Station location.

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warpedtimeAlan Thompson@warpedtime·
30 Apr

Nice little mystery. Found this on Old Perth @HistoricalPanos I don't think it is located either where it's label or it's GPS suggests. I'm not including either so as not to raise misconceptions. Date 1880's any thoughts? @DodgyPerth @ColourMePerth

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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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DodgyPerthDodgy Perth@DodgyPerth·
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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