A good place to start:
Everything:
extinct on the mainland,
you shouldn’t kick it like a football,
or feed it by the hand.
Most recent:
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Happy Gunpowder Treason Day
Bristol, England at dusk on an evening in November 2015. The pops and bangs were very loud and seemed to be right outside of the tiny bedroom I was staying in. It was right outside my window and I was bemused on investigation to find that a collection of children and their parents were setting…
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Dyson’s Hotel
The story of the corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia, continued.
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Dyson’s Corner (the First)
The corner of King and Murray Street in the city of Perth, Western Australia
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Winterbottom’s End
Joseph Winterbottom was the old bastard pursued by Oldham police across the border from Lancashire into the West Riding of Yorkshire in the summer of 1833. Arrested by the Halifax Constabulary, he was immediately identified by visiting Oldham bloodhound Heywood as a known rogue and vagabond, and proceeded to squeal like a pig, identifying the…
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The Sons of Australia: Foundation and Foulkes
Sometimes its just a name that piques your interest. Sometimes names are all you have. The Sons of Australia Benefit Society was formed in January 1837 and it’s final meeting was held in August 1897. For sixty years it seemed to be an ever-present feature in the social fabric of Perth, Western Australia— and then…
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Under the Establishment
A visit to the tunnels under the old Convict Establishment in Fremantle, Western Australia
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I hate Maitland Brown
Historians are not supposed to ventilate opinions like this. Actually, when studying for my degree we were also not supposed to write in the first person (Is there not an “I” in history?). I don’t believe we as historians have any licence to make things up. I also don’t believe we have any right to…
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Francis Armstrong: Thesis
Back in 2013 I wanted to re-invent myself. I had been researching my family history for a few years and I had collected so many interesting facts and stories that I felt I needed to expand my skills in actually presenting this information in a form that was interesting and engaging to some one who…
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Thurso
The northernmost town on the the British mainland.
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Aberdeen
The granite city of Scotland.
