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 | Australian History, Burke & Wills, Exploration, Podcast, Pre-1900, Social History
Oh Mr Burke‘Tis risky workTo seek the northern coastThen have a careOr else prepareTo be a desert ghost…1 On the 20th of August 1860, amid such fanfare as Melbourne had never seen before, the Victorian Exploration Expedition set off from Royal Park. They were...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Artefacts, Australian History, Colonisation & Invasion, Exploration, Indigenous History, Museum, Natural History, World History
Welcome, fellow skeptics, to Skeptical History: where we dissect the mystery that is history! I’m Juliana, I have a Bachelor of Arts in History & Writing, and am studying a Master of Research in History. My mission here at the Skeptical Historian is to challenge...
