Traces Magazine:
• ‘Murder or Misadventure on the Moana?’ Traces, volume 26, 2024
Two suspicious 1919 cyanide deaths onboard the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand’s RMS Moana.
• ‘Colonial Australia – Affairs of Honour’ Traces, volume 25, 2023
A very brief insight into the history of Colonial Australian duels positioned within broader social, cultural, economic and legal contexts.
“Looking Back”- the History Hermit: a regular column published in the Beaudesert Times newspaper from 2022:
• ‘Precedented Times’ – Looking at the government-mandated local responses to the Spanish Flu pandemic.
• ‘On the Road’ – Early automobiles in the district.
• ‘A Bit of Drama’ – Local community theatre entertainment and thespians at war in the days before television.
• ‘A Test of Faith’ – An historical ‘whodunnit?’
• ‘Lights Out’ – Local responses to broader WWII black-out laws.
• ‘In the Trenches’ – The community get busy digging slit-trenches and constructing air-raid shelters.
• ‘Cops and Robbers’ – In which Constable Vincent Dowling is accidentally shot by the good guy. Don’t worry, it ends well.
• ‘Beards and Burlesque’ – A local 1949 fundraiser involving beards and burly dudes.
• ‘Looking Back on Times Past’ – A history of the local newspaper within the context of community newspapers’ contributions to societies both past and present.
• ‘Etiquette of Mourning’ – Local observance of the strict Victorian era ‘Cult of Death’ mortuary protocols.
• ‘Making Tracks’ – The construction of the rail line to the district including the impacts - both positive and negative - to communities within the broader contexts of 19th century Queensland rail construction.
• ‘Ahead of their Time’ – local inventors and patent holders.
• ‘Fire!’ – The decimation and the responses of one of many colonial timber-towns prone to conflagration.
• ‘Beaudesert Fire Brigade’ – Like other Queensland towns and cities, the local ‘bucket brigade’ is finally, if not easily, corralled into a cohesive fire brigade.
• ‘What’s in a Name?’ – The stories behind community members immortalised in local street names.
• ‘Black Gold’ – The exciting, if not ultimately anticlimactic, local discovery of crude oil positioned within the context of Australia’s early 20th century race to discover a gusher large enough to dig the economy out of its own economic deep hole.
• ‘Beaudesert Cemetery’ – The Cemetery Act of 1865 and its influence on the construction of, and economic responsibility for, the new public cemetery.
The Beaudesert War Memorial 1915-1921, Beaudesert Historical Society, 2017.