Dr Meg Foster - Boundary Crossing Bushrangers: hidden stories from Australia's colonial past

In person talk 

Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly and his bushranging brothers are potent symbols of our nation, but this sense of familiarity can conceal more than it reveals about our past. In this talk, award-winning historian Dr Meg Foster will introduce you to the 'boundary crossers', the bushrangers who weren't white men, and whose fascinating stories were scrubbed from our national consciousness because they didn't fit the mould. This talk will uncover voices that were hidden from history, and reveal that there is far more to bushranging than immediately meets the eye. 

Dr Meg Foster is an award-winning historian and research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Boundary Crossers: the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers, was published by NewSouth.