It’s Fan Art February at A Guide to Australian Bushranging. Do you have a sketch, painting, sculpture, photograph or cosplay that you’d like to share? Perhaps a drawing based on your favourite bushranger film or a Lego set based on a historic building or event? Continue reading Fan Art February 2018
What could possibly connect a ballad about a rogue swaggie to one of bushranging’s most bloody legends? Read on to find out… Continue reading Spotlight: The connection between bushranging and the unofficial national anthem
He called himself “The Last of the Bushrangers” and wrote a tell-all book about the big name bushrangers… Continue reading Spotlight: Portrait of Jack Bradshaw
The following is an account of one of the many bizarre moments in the career of Fred Ward aka Captain Thunderbolt. Ward’s reputation as a successful, gallant and daring highwayman doesn’t hold up tremendously well when scrutinised and in fact … Continue reading Spotlight: Captain Thunderbolt bails up two boys in Singleton
In 1827 Jack Donohoe teamed up with two fellow convicts named George Kilroy and William Smith. Taking to the bush they robbed a man named Plomer. Found guilty of highway robbery, the trio were sentenced to death but Donohoe escaped … Continue reading Spotlight: The Botched Execution of Donohoe’s Mate
Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang is widely renowned for its intriguing and colourful fictionalised depiction of the people and events of the Ned Kelly story. In this video he discusses his thoughts on the Kelly story … Continue reading Spotlight: Imagining Ned Kelly: Interview with Peter Carey