by Christine Kenneally BH | Nov 14, 2011 | Accents
Amelia Lester’s ‘fearlessness’ sounds Australian. Her ‘integrate’ sounds American, and her ‘loved’ – as in, “I loved growing up in Sydney” – is strung out halfway over the Pacific. I spoke to Lester for The Monthly
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ned Kelly’s legend is all the more glorious for the power of his voice, which you can still hear loud and clear if you read the 1879 Jerilderie letter, a 7400-word account of his actions and a plea for better treatment of Irish settlers in his State. Kelly dictated...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t that long ago that scientists believed they could read your soul in the lumps on your head. Here are phrenology reports for Ned Kelly and Frederick Deeming (Thank you Michael Newcity for the latter). To start, Ned’s phrenologist strikes a note of...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Sep 1, 2011 | Ancient DNA, Books, Ned Kelly, Science, Skeletal remains
Mark Greenwood wrote a wonderful book for children called Ned Kelly and the Green Sash. Dr. Jeremy Smith, Senior Archeologist at Heritage Victoria, wrote about his investigation into the skeletal remains found at Pentridge Prison for Providence, the journal of the...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 31, 2011 | Ancient DNA, Books, Forensic anthropology, Genes, J.J. Kenneally, Mitochondrial DNA, Ned Kelly, Odontology, Relics, Skeletal remains
Consider the case of Ned Kelly's skull. You can read my article about the bushranger's DNA and the solution to this decades-old mystery at The New York Times. Here, the August 22, 1880 article in The New York Times reporting the capture of the Kelly...
