by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Ballarat, Books, Burke & Wills, Colonisation & Invasion, Conspiracy Theories, Exploration, Non-Fiction, Social History, The Eureka Stockade
I’ve recently got stuck into Otto English’s “Fake Heroes” (the not-quite-sequel to “Fake History”) and a recent chapter on Captain Robert Scott entitled ‘How to be Heroic, even in Failure’ got me thinking about Australian history. Anyone who has listened to my podcast...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Animals, Australian History, Conspiracy Theories
In my recent episode on Alien Big Cats (ABCs) in the Australian bush, one of the discussion points was (if these animals have somehow established viable breeding populations) what are they eating? Big cats need on average 5kgs of meat a day to stay healthy and can eat...
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, 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,...
