Bare knuckle boxing was a popular 19th century pastime. In Victoria, after 1866, it became compulsory to wear gloves and follow the Queensbury rules, but bare knuckle fights were still held, albeit illegally. The last, and one of the most famous bouts, occured on March 20 1879. Held n the NSW side of the Murray [...]
The little town of Lancefield, an hour and a bit North West of Melbourne, has a great farmers Market on the fourth Saturday of each month, and is well known for the wonderful Aspy Cafe in High Street. Like so many other parts of rural Victoria, it has links to the Kelly Outbreak, and we’ll [...]
Since the white invasion, Ned Kelly is probably the best known Australian. Though we all know of him, not all are clear on his life and story, but none the less his name lives as a symbol of fighting against injustice. Even in his own short life he had a presence larger than life. Let [...]
The Kelly House in Beveridge As another December passes us by let’s cast our minds back to colonial Victoria in December 1854, where we had the events at the Eureka Stockade, an episode which helped shape democratic Victoria as we know it, and, in Beveridge not far from Whittlesea, there was the birth of Edward [...]
