Christopher Dawson

‘To Preserve and to Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane’ – Book Review

Book review for ‘To Preserve and to Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane’ by Anastasia Dukova, 2020.

Learn about yet another bit of ‘paranormal industry’ fraud, this time the invention and sudden disappearance of a cemetery ghost.

Read about how a photo from Tasmania was passed off as a ghost in Queensland… and what happened when the truth was exposed.

Author Steele Rudd had the unenviable task of informing the Kenniff brothers about the mixed outcome of their appeal against their death penalties.

My ‘Heywood in History’ website just hit one million views. There’s a surprisingly big market for the history of small towns.

Read about a tragic incident involving a breaching Humpback Whale near Rockhampton in 1928.

Discover a 19th-century Brisbane theme park with tigers, giant aquariums and roller coasters.

Read about the years when the Queensland whaling industry killed thousands of whales off Moreton Island.

A visit to the old graveyard at the Church of St John the Baptist, Bircle, Bury, Lancashire.

Looking back at an extensive record of working in Queensland cemetery history.