Dr Meg Foster will speak on Not Just Ned: Recovering Forgotten Bushrangers from Australia's Colonial Past.

Bushrangers are Australian legends, and as such, sometimes romanticised. But not all Australian bushrangers were seen in a glowing light in their own time. And not all were white men. In this talk, historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn’t fit the mould. These bushrangers’ remarkable lives have been obscured, misrepresented or erased from the national story for over a century, and this is no accident. There is far more to these bushrangers, and their histories, than immediately meets the eye. 

Dr Meg Foster is an award-winning historian of banditry, settler colonial and public history, a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the former Mary Bateson Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her first book, Boundary Crossers: the Hidden History of Australia's Other Bushrangers, was published with NewSouth in 2022.