ANU have published my book. Thanks to Stewart Firth, Emily Hazlewood, and everyone at ANU Press

Fancy a Twitter-only, super-sneaky-peek at an upcoming themed collection featuring a number of historians, due out early next year on St. John’s Cemetery Project? Read @JamesHDunk's Create NSW-funded "Nicholas Bayly: The Anti-Settler" right here, right now: stjohnsonline.org/bio/nicholas-b… #OzHist

Not all women who died at the #Parramatta #FemaleFactory were convicts! Read Alex Cameron-Smith's latest Create NSW-funded piece for St. John’s Cemetery Project: "'The Indifferent Characters of Many of the Females': Mary Leeche & Colonial Controversy in the 1830s": stjohnsonline.org/bio/mary-leech…

In "The Eternal Masquerader" The Old Parramattan presents a 217-year-old case in which the Australian courts were faced with the question of whether a child's death resulted from child abuse. Supported by Create NSW stjohnsonline.org/bio/the-grimsh… #OzHist

Read all about the "forgotten" Scotch Martyr who became #Parramatta #FemaleFactory's very first superintendent in Alex Cameron-Smith's "He Was a Clever Chiel Geordie, Tae be Only a Weaver: #GeorgeMealmaker," supported by Create NSW: stjohnsonline.org/bio/george-mea… #OzHist #ScottishHistory

The elaborate "funeral obsequies" of #FemaleOrphanSchool pupil 'Betsy' Lees were perplexing to The Australian in 1826. Learn the reasons for Betsy's grand farewell in The Old Parramattan's "Departed Innocence," supported by Create NSW. #OzHist #Parramatta stjohnsonline.org/bio/elizabeth-…

"Rogues," a new collection of morally bankrupt or straight-up paradoxical Parramattans, edited by The Old Parramattan, supported by Create NSW, & featuring new work from The Old Parramattan, @JamesHDunk, Dr Catie Gilchrist & David Morgan! stjohnsonline.org/rogues/ #OzHist #twitterstorians #rogues

"GUNS 'N' TUBEROSES" tells the tale of the Hollands, publicans of The Star Inn, Church Street, #Parramatta. Ex-con Jack Holland was a nature lover with a fondness for flowers, but let's just say, he was definitely not a cat person! Read on: stjohnsonline.org/bio/the-hollan… #OzHist #Rogues

#Parramatta's first Lord #Mayor was a #convict! Read all about Woolpack Hotel publican "John Williams: The Mayor of Reinvention" in David Morgan's latest essay for St. John’s Cemetery Project's "Rogues" mini-collection, supported by Create NSW #OzHist #twitterstorians stjohnsonline.org/bio/john-willi…

My seventh St John's Cemetery First Fleeter biography, 'John Williams: the Mayor of Reinvention', tells the story of a man transported for pickpocketing who rose to the heights of respectability as the first Mayor of Parramatta: stjohnsonline.org/bio/john-willi…

Out now: "Rogues, Rapists, Cheats, Thieves & Murderers," or a "syphilitic lesions & all" view of #TheBatmans by @oldparramatta, supported by Create NSW. Pictured: the #FounderofMelbourne #JohnBatman's #birthplace, Macquarie St #Parramatta. #Rogues #OzHist stjohnsonline.org/bio/the-batman…

Being chosen as a sea wife ensured Catherine Crowley survived the #SecondFleet, but she was later shunned by #Parramatta's small coterie of genteel ladies. A "damned convict whore forever." Read @historywhore's "A Convict Sea Wife" supported by Create NSW stjohnsonline.org/bio/catherine-…

How did this "Gentleman Rogue" manage to retain his gentlemanly status, even whilst enduring banishment beyond the seas? Find out in @historywhore's essay on D'Arcy Wentworth, supported by Create NSW: stjohnsonline.org/bio/darcy-went…

In February 1809, a man was tried and imprisoned for calling this guy a "rogue." So, at the risk of a law suit (😉) I offer you the latest "Rogue": NICHOLAS BAYLY: THE ANTI-SETTLER By @JamesHDunk, supported by Create NSW: stjohnsonline.org/bio/nicholas-b…

The #grave of Mary Cavillon & son Nicholas, St John's, #Parramatta. One arrived a #convict; the penal colony turned the other into one! Read The Old Parramattan's "Homemaker, Housebreaker" & follow up with "A Hardened Villain" supported by Create NSW: stjohnsonline.org/rogues/ #OzHist

Read all about #GeorgeBarrington's polite legerdemain, exquisitely artful dodging & much admired eloquence during his multiple appearances Old Bailey Online in "THE PRINCE OF PICKPOCKETS" by Dr Michaela Ann Cameron The Old Parramattan, supported by Create NSW stjohnsonline.org/bio/george-bar…

Tom Holland Or they could have kept the Indigenous name, Naarm.