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Please note: E-mail response to this website has indicated that some netsurfers do not realise that this website has a total of 71++ files. Please navigate around the website to that extent to ensure you get the best from it - Ed
[Check the Acknowledgements / Credits page here to see who helped this project to completion Acknowledgements ] [You are now on a page filed as (aboutbc.htm] [See also, Contents of this entire website-book]
Note: December 2001: An Item ("Transportation on the Net") on this website appeared in Newswrite, monthly journal of the New South Wales Writers' Centre, No. 111, Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002, p. 9. See their website at: http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au/
The Blackheath Connection: a new view of the
"founding" of European Australia as a British convict
colony - a review of the history of the transportation of British
convicts 1717-1810.
The Blackheath Connection... derived from discoveries made in London in 1989
by Dan Byrnes and Neil Rhind
Prepare to learn much about the sweep of events which
from 1786 linked a long-lost Australia to the rest of the
world...
the how and why of a global network of shipping, the
world-wide web of its day...
The Blackheath Connection
aims to retell the earlier stories of how Australia - the continent -
was introduced to the rest of the world... Revised or new material is
presented on settlers/planters on Jamaica after the 1690s Scottish
Darien Company debacle; the Boston Tea Party; Britain's handling of
convicts from 1776; how London aldermen reacted as the First Fleet to
Australia was being mounted; how London-based merchants avoided new
opportunities in the Pacific region; new material on maritime
history.
Note1: Some chapters in this website book are left overlong to discourage illegal copying by netsurfers
Note2: This website is not for readers who are not serious about early Australian-European history, or matters related
Note: Research for this project was supported in 1993 by a Writer's Project Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, following which the author returned to university to complete an Honours degree in History. The orignal website on the project has been created/updated since March 2000. This is a minimally-modified mirror copy.
Comments and suggestions about this website
book
can be e-mailed to The Blackheath Connection webmaster... Dan
Byrnes
Dan Byrnes is a former journalist/sub-editor (with earlier experience in advertising/copywriting), and a poet and historian with wide-ranging interests.
Since 1996 he's been fascinated with the Internet as an information-delivery system, websites and associated technology including database development.
His five websites (offering 290+ pages) are designed for quick download and page print-out.
His
qualifications are:
1995 - Honours Degree (History) from The
University of New England.
1999 - Certificate III in Information
Technology (Computing and Multimedia) (VETAB Accredited).
He is a former board member of New England Writers' Centre and has been active in literary and media circles in Armidale and the region.
He is listed in The Oxford Literary Guide To Australia (1987) (under "Tamworth") and in the 1988 edition of The International Authors and Writers Who's Who.
He lately maintains his own five websites and various other websites
He trades under the business name: Dan
Byrnes Word Factory. ABN: 27 526 974 374.
Contact
information: (If in doubt, just look for "dan" + "byrnes"
on Google search engine)
Dan Byrnes,
Unit 4,
145 Marsh
Street,
Armidale NSW 2350 Australia.
Telephone: (02) 6771
5243.
Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.
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