Better information on the colonial wars in Tasmania is waiting to be found, and historian Nick Brodie has done the graft and produced the analysis from documents and records held in the national repositories.
Brodie’s advice: look beyond the regular sources, find the bigger picture and the context that the records are produced in.
Think about what the records were created for, how they were used during
and after creation, how they were archived, how complete they appear,
and only then worry about relating the stories they might contain.
Interview with Nick Brodie on his process for new book The Vandemonian War: the Secret History of Tasmania's Colonisation
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