This post is Part 7 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. Were there any Kelly links to political movements? Bill presents a flow chart showing links between the Gorman family, […]
Sympathiser numbers: Bill says there were thousands of them! Part 6 of a review of Bill Denheld’s ‘A Certain Truth’ by Stuart Dawson
This post is Part 6 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. Sympathiser numbers Bill disputes two comments in my Republic Myth book: first, that I said that the Kelly gang […]
Rewards, Politics and Police in Bills Big Book “A Certain Truth”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]