This post is Part 5 of a review by Stuart Dawson of Bill Denheld’s Ned Kelly – Australian Iron Icon: A Certain Truth (2024). As before, bracketed numbers, e.g., (xx), refers to pages in Bill’s book. Were the Kelly brothers hunted for reward monies after the Fitzpatrick incident? Bill wrote that while on the […]
Month: July 2024
Part Four of Stuart Dawsons analysis of Bill Denhelds big new book ‘A certain Truth.’ Bill says that the Gang didn’t ambush the police at SBC…..
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 […]