MEDIA RELEASE – 3 June 2016
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T07:56:19+00:00The History of CAIRNS has been nominated for the 2016 Queensland Literary Award. CAIRNS, City of the South Pacific, A History 1770-1995 written by local author, Dr Tim Bottoms, has been nominated for the Premiers Award for a work of state significance. The 600 page book has enjoyed outstanding reviews, with renowned Australian historian, Professor [...]
THE AUSTRALIAN: Cairns history: a northern star is born
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T04:55:25+00:00In mid-July 1876, sub-collector of Customs Brinsley Guise Sheridan set out from Cardwell, sailed his sleek pilot cutter up the Queensland coast, rounded Cape Grafton and put in at a muddy, unprepossessing river-mouth. Mangrove creeks, an open stretch of forest country: was this really the ideal port site for the new goldfields of the [...]
ANZAC MARCH IN CANBERRA 2015
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T03:24:16+00:00Dr Timothy Bottoms author of Conspiracy of Silence, Queensland's frontier killing times (Allen & Unwin 2013) reflects on the 2015 Anzac march in Canberra In early 2015 I was invited to go to Canberra to talk about the frontier wars in colonial Queensland at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. My host was Graeme Dunstan from PeaceBus.com. [...]
ABC RN BIG IDEAS: Conspiracy of Silence: Queenslands frontier killing times
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T09:18:57+00:00Tonight we talk about killing times. Cairns-based historian Timothy Bottoms has drawn a new map of Queensland, that places many more sites of massacres of Aboriginal people into the story than have ever been acknowledged before. And while he argues that this is a story of deep silences, what he demonstrates is how public [...]
THE AUSTRALIAN: Mapping the massacres of Queensland Aboriginal society
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T09:17:00+00:00IN October 1890, Archibald Meston, a handsome, slightly scapegrace pillar of the Queensland establishment, felt the time had come for a brisk assessment of the state's dark and conveniently ill-remembered past. At that point in his hectic career Meston was still in his 30s and had already been by turns a wordsmith, a parliamentarian, [...]
ABC RADIO NATIONAL The Drawing Room : Queenslands Secret History
Tim Bottoms2017-12-16T09:18:50+00:00Wednesday 12 June 2013 7:40PM In the Drawing Room, we speak to the author of The Conspiracy of Silence, the first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Historian Timothy Bottoms follows in the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved across the state in the 19th century. He identifies massacres, poisonings and other [...]