New England's History

 My last note discussed  Marine isotype Stages (MIS). These provided a dated measurement of glacial (dry climate) and interglacial (wetter) ...

 DNA analysis suggests that the descendants of Australia's Aboriginal peoples left Africa perhaps 72,000 years ago. To reach Australia t...

 My present first priority in completing my history of Australia's New England is the creation of a full working draft for the history o...

 While personal circumstances have limited all my research and writing activities, I have kept this blog open to allow for comments on past ...

  One of the challenges in teaching the history of Australia's New England over such a long period lies in the sheer range of topics and...

Interesting piece in The Conversation (6 October) by Kathryn Allen, Alison O'Donnell, Benjamin I. Cook, Jonathan Palmer and Pauline Grie...

The Kurri Kurri choir who won the chief choral contest at the 1913 Taree eisteddfod (Photo  MidCoast Stories via the ABC) Interesting piece...

 Interesting piece by Andrew Curry in Science, "‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languag...

As my first post for the new year, I am publishing the book review originally published in the Armidale and District Historical Society Jour...

In 1840, Port Macquarie’s Archibald Clunes Innes was at the height of his wealth and power with stores, pastoral runs and real estate holdin...