The Quick or The Dead: Childbirth in Early Sydney
This History Week, Melissa Holmes explores the process and progress of life and death for women in the early days of the colony of New South Wales.
Dreadfully Mangled: The Violent Demise of William Reynolds Jr. in 1838 and the Perception of Unnatural Death in the Penal Colony of NSW
Melissa Holmes will use the tragic death of William Reynolds Jr. in 1838 to explore the way death was perceived and dealt with in the pre-industrial penal colony of Sydney in the early nineteenth century.