by Juliana Byers | Feb 6, 2025 | Australian History, Natural Disaster, Natural History, Newspapers, Pre-1900, Social History
Bushfire Safety in Victoria Podcast: Victoria’s Burning On 6 February 1851, the most extensive bushfire in Victoria’s recorded history ripped through the colony. Five million hectares, a quarter of the colony, was burned and dozens of homes and farms were...
by Juliana Byers | Jan 22, 2025 | Australian History, Military History, Murder, Political History, Post-1900, Social History, True Crime, World War 1
Why Records Go Missing Podcast: Australia’s Deadliest Picnic On New Year’s Day 1915, in the outback town of Broken Hill, New South Wales, two men opened fire on an open-air train, carrying 1200 people to nearby Silverton for the day. Four people were killed and...
by Juliana Byers | Sep 5, 2024 | Australian History, Colonisation & Invasion, Imperial History, Indigenous History, Political History, Referencing, Social History
I Don’t Wanna Hear It! How to Respond Respectfully to Uncomfortable History Have you ever sat down to eat something really delicious, only to have someone start talking loudly about something which suddenly kills your hard-earned appetite? “Shut the hell up!”...
by Juliana Byers | May 3, 2024 | ANZAC Day, Australian History, Gallipoli, Military History, Political History, Social History, World War 1
Ah, taxes, one of the only two things they say are certain in this world, the other (of course) being death. So perhaps it is appropriate that it was recently revealed that a bunch of Victorian MPs, thirteen, to be exact, and one federal MP, used taxpayer funds to...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 26, 2024 | ANZAC Day, Australian History, Gallipoli, Memorials, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, The Somme, World War 1
Today is the 25th of April, and the 109th anniversary of the catastrophic failure that was the Gallipoli invasion. Oops! Sorry Twitter-lynch mob, I meant today is the 109th anniversary of the greatest day in Australian history, where we became a nation, baptized in...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 24, 2024 | Australian History, Ballarat, Newspapers, Podcast, Political History, Pre-1900, Social History, The Eureka Stockade
In April 1855, four months after the violent clash at the Eureka Stockade and following on from thirteen highly publicisesd high treason trials, an open letter appeared in the popular Melbourne newspaper The Argus. It’s author was none other than Peter Lalor,...
