This is an archive of all the posts we have written on this blog, with the most recent at the top of the list – we hope you enjoy reading them!
2022
- “Each poor poisoned wretch.” Distributing death by poison on Queensland’s colonial frontier (15 May 2022)
- Left for Dead (19 April 2022)
2021
- Nervous Nation (5 November 2021)
- Reading the Rockhampton Letterbook (20 October 2021)
- Fortifying the Frontier (29 September 2021)
2020
- Cultures of Terror (7 November 2020)
- The Music of Objects (11 October 2020)
- European Women on the Frontier: Mary Ann Armit (21 September 2020)
- Uniform Buttons of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, 1852–1904 (3 September 2020)
- Murdering Molvo Part II: Beyond History Written by the Victors (13 August 2020)
- Why Nineteenth Century Frontier Violence is Relevant Today: The Continuing Legacy (29 July 2020)
- Murdering Molvo Part 1: The Events at Wonomo Waterhole (13 July 2020)
- Some Statistics from the Frontier Conflict and the Native Mounted Police in Queensland (19 June 2020)
- Seeing the wood and the trees: culturally modified Cooktown ironwood trees at Lower Laura (Boralga) Native Mounted Police camp, Cape York Peninsula (18 May 2020)
2019
- Wired: Aboriginal People and Colonial Communication Networks (27 October 2019)
- Aboriginal Rock Art and the Native Mounted Police (12 October 2019)
- Violent Etymologies (28 September 2019)
- Goodie or Baddie? Frederick Walker, the First Commandant of the Native Police, 1848–1855 (14 September 2019)
- William Nichols, the NMP and the Murder of Aboriginal People at Irvinebank in 1884 (25 August 2019)
- Moments of Red (11 August 2019)
- Needles in Haystacks: Why Finding Massacres in the Australian Archaeological Record is So Challenging (26 July 2019)
- All For One and One for All (14 July 2019)
- The Social Capital of Officers in the NMP (30 June 2019)
- The Arms Race (15 April 2019)
- Who Were the Officers of the NMP? (1 April 2019)
- Australia’s Longest Horse Chase: Wentworth D’Arcy Uhr Part II (18 March 2019)
- ‘I Suppose I Have Had More Experience Amongst the Blacks than any Other Man of My Age in This Colony’: Wentworth D’Arcy Uhr Part I (4 March 2019)
- ‘It’s the Way it Shatters that Matters’: The Use of Glass by Aboriginal People in NMP Camps (18 February 2019)
- “I am, Sir, &c., Tom Coward” (4 February 2019)
- The Unwanted Arm: Westley Richards 20g Double Barrel Pinfire Carbine (21 January 2019)
- Archaeologist Nights: A Tale of One Thousand and One Artefacts (7 January 2019)
2018
- ‘The Art of Cookery is in a Most Barbarous State’: Food on the Frontier (20 December 2018)
- Building an Online Database about the Native Mounted Police (8 December 2018)
- Masculinity and Sexuality on the Colonial Frontier (9 November 2018)
- The Many Meanings of X (26 October 2018)
- When Bureaucracies Kill (12 October 2018)
- Friendships on the Frontier: Exploring relationships Between Officers and Troopers of the NMP (30 September 2018)
- Getting Away with Murder: Who Was Really Responsible for the Deaths of Hugh and Donald Macquarie? (14 September 2018)
- ‘To Be Seen and Not Heard’: Children and the NMP (23 August 2018)
- ‘A Large Comet Appeared in the West’: The Daily Journals of Three NMP Camps (8 August 2018)
- Treachery or a Matter of Survival? The Attempted Murder of Sub-Inspector Brabazon Stafford (20 July 2018)
- ‘My Darling Lis’: John Kenny’s Letters to His Wife Eliza (5 July 2018)
- Shots Fired … But in What Direction and How do We Know? (21 June 2018)
- “All Mere Youths” when Taken Away: Recruiting Aboriginal Boys and Men to the NMP Part III (25 May 2018)
- Willing Volunteers? Recruiting Aboriginal Boys and Men to the NMP Part II (13 May 2018)
- From the Horses Mouth: Horses and the NMP (26 April 2018)
- Recruiting Aboriginal Boys and Men to the NMP: Part I (13 April 2018)
- ‘My Unfortunate Habit of Nipping’ (30 March 2018)
- Glamping: Native Mounted Police Style (16 March 2018)
- Taking French Leave: Desertions Amongst the Troopers (28 February 2018)
- The Discipline of Dress: The Many Meanings of NMP Uniforms (14 February 2018)
- Men in Blue (and Red): A Brief History of the Qld NMP Uniform (2 February 2018)
- Floored by Ant Mounds (22 January 2018)
- On Her Majesty’s Service (11 January 2018)
- Self Provisioning at Boralga (4 January 2018)
2017
- Snake Buckles on the Frontier (19 December 2017)
- ’70 or 80 Natives Attacked the Party while Travelling’: Understanding the Spatial Dimension of Conflict on the Frontier (23 November 2017)
- Empty Settler Landscapes on Aboriginal Country (23 October 2017)
- ‘Exception, Reward well Deserved’: Crescents and Beads? (12 October 2017)
- Aboriginal Women and the NMP (27 September 2017)
- All Buttoned Up: Archaeology in the Outback (12 September 2017)
- Currency Lads and the Native Youth: Mapping Early White Identity in Queensland (3 September 2017)
- One-sided Histories (12 August 2017)
- What’s in a Name? (14 July 2017)
- Archaeological Geophysics: Where the Future Meets the Past (30 June 2017)
- Excavating the Wondai Gumbal NMP Camp Site (14 June 2017)
- Cramming Monkeys (30 May 2017)
- Extending the Pumpkin Line (23 May 2017)
- Wounds of all Descriptions: the NMP and Medical Self-treatment (11 April 2017)
- The Pumpkin Line (5 January 2017)
2016
- Searching for Photos of the Boulia NMP Barracks (6 August 2016)
- The Woolgar Massacre (9 June 2016)
- NMP Troopers and the Search for the Kelly Gang (20 May 2016)
- Stanhope O’Connor (13 May 2016)
- Of Course Australia was Invaded – an article from The Conversation (11 May 2016)