This post is Part 4 of a review of Bill Denheld’s Ned Kelly – Australian Iron Icon: A Certain Truth (2024), by Stuart Dawson. As before, bracketed numbers, e.g., (xx), refers to pages in Bill’s book. Bill disputes my description of Stringybark Creek as an ambush by defining ‘ambush’ as “a surprise attack by people […]
The Fitzpatrick “Incident” as told by Bill Denheld in ‘A Certain Truth’. Analysis by Stuart Dawson, author of “Redeeming Fitzpatrick”
This post is Part 3 of a review by Stuart Dawson of Bill Denheld’s book “Ned Kelly – Australian Iron Icon: A Certain Truth (2024)”. Part 1 made some initial observations on Bill’s claim that a kind of proto-republican sentiment existed in Victoria and in the north-east in particular in the years leading up […]
Squatters vs Selectors: Class war and the Kelly outbreak in Bill Denheld’s big new book : A Certain Truth
This post is Part 2 of a multi-part review of Bill Denheld’s ‘Ned Kelly – Australian Iron Icon: A Certain Truth’ (2024), by Stuart Dawson. As with Part 1, bracketed numbers, e.g., (xx), refers to pages in Bill’s book. When my series of review posts is completed, they will be put up for download […]
Dawson vs Denhelds ‘Certain Truth’ : Chapter 12 : Republic or Myth
This post is Part 1 of a review of Bill Denheld’s Ned Kelly – Australian Iron Icon: A Certain Truth (2024), by Stuart Dawson. Bill has written a complex book that tackles a wide range of topics of interest, as can be seen in his introductory overview. This review will only look at the chapters […]
Chapter 14 of Bills Big New Book: “Ned Kelly was dudded by Constable Thomas McIntyre”…or was he?
According to Bill “Ned was dudded big time by Thomas McIntyre and the court, and by that trick Ned Kelly was not able to claim self-defence, and he was sentenced to death by hanging with the express purpose to show the lower classes of society that they should not meddle with the conservative […]
Was Ned Kelly adopted ?
Chapter 3 of Bills Denhelds just published book “A Certain Truth” is titled “Who was Ned Kelly?” and it includes a photo of an article from the Herald Sun of 24th August 2008, which quotes Bill saying this: “Some researchers believe Kelly was adopted as a young child”. By “some researchers” I believe he is […]
THE TRUE STORY BLOG CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF UNEXPECTED SUCCESS
Today is the Tenth anniversary of Ned Kelly The True Story Blog. An entire decade ago, on May 19th 2014 this Blog came into existence when I nervously uploaded the first post to my new Google Blogspot web page, then called“Ned Kelly: Death of the Legend” – its title? “Good Man or Bad Man?” The […]
Ned Kelly’s Avenel School Days
Dr. Stuart Dawson, May 1st 2024 This is a simplified blog version of Stuart Dawson’s research paper ‘Ned Kelly’s Avenel School Days’ that can be downloaded at the bottom of the page. It shows that a lot of what has been written about the Kelly children attending school at Avenel is incorrect. Assuming that the […]
The Incredible True Story of Boxing Ned
Image shows Boxing Ned, Fredricksen, Wild Wright The “Boxing Ned” photo from 1874 is probably the best and most compelling of the four known photos we have of Ned Kelly, and the story behind the portrait is possibly the most well-known anecdote from Ned Kellys life before he was on the run. It is […]
THE ‘NEW VIEW’ OF NED KELLY AND THE SASH: ITS A FAIRY STORY
Its been a fascinating journey, tracing the origins of the story about Ned Kelly being rewarded by the Shelton family in 1865 or thereabouts with a green and gold sash for saving Richard when he was six. What one would expect over time is that details became clearer the closer one got to the source […]