by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Books, Conspiracy Theories, Non-Fiction, World History
In May 2022, journalist and historian Otto English published his book Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped The World. I’d recommend it to anyone interested in the intersection between myth and history. But Fake History is everywhere, and often we are...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Modern Warfare, True Crime, War Crime
Australia’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Our Military History Author’s Note: Since this post was published, Ben Roberts-Smith VC has appealed the findings against him. Juliana Byers16 June 2023 Dear Reader: This post was written for an undergraduate...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Ballarat, Gold Rush, Military History, Political History, Pre-1900, Social History, The Eureka Stockade
Following on from my recent podcast, I want to talk a little more about why I think calling the Battle of the Eureka Stockade a rebellion is a misnomer. In the twenty-first century, particularly in countries with generally robust democracies (Australia among them),...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, Travel, World War 1
…and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell into the bottomless mud and lost the light… – Siegfried Sassoon, “Memorial Tablet” (1918)1 In 2018, I realised a long-term dream of mine to visit Ireland. I’d been saving for years to go and had a wonderful...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Conspiracy Theories, Political History, Post-1900, Social History, Vanishings & Missing Persons
“Look, Tony, what are the odds of a Prime Minister drowning or being taken by a shark?” – Harold Holt, to his press secretary Tony Eggelton, in 1967. When a young Harold Holt was seventeen, he decided that, one day, he would be the Prime Minister. At first glance,...
