Archaeology on the Frontier

This blog is about research relating to frontier conflict and especially the Native Mounted Police in Queensland

William Nichols, the NMP and the Murder of Aboriginal People at Irvinebank in 1884

08/25/2019.Reading time 30 minutes.

By Lynley Wallis In an earlier blog post I wrote about the challenges of finding contemporary physical evidence of deaths from the colonial frontier, and why such efforts are often akin to looking for a needle in a haystack (cf. Litster and Wallis 2011). Despite this, there are some rare instances where the specific location […]

‘A Large Comet Appeared in the West’: The Daily Journals of Three NMP Camps

08/08/2018.Reading time 16 minutes.

By Heather Burke Jonathan Richards (2005:1–9) has pointed out the rich veins that can be tapped when searching for Native Mounted Police (NMP) records in the Qld State Archives by burrowing through general file series, such as the Colonial Secretary’s inwards and outwards correspondence, the inquest files of the Justice Department, or the Executive Council […]