Ned Kelly’s famous last stand took place in ... But what is the evidence for those body straps? In his acclaimed Kelly book A Short Life, historian Ian Jones revealed that he had once, long ...

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton calls Nabbing Ned Kelly – which tells of police efforts to catch the Kelly gang – “a must read”. Historian David Dufty with his new non-fiction book Nabbing ...

His great grandson Leo Kennedy has written a book about that time and the impact Ned Kelly’s murders had on his family. On October 26, 1878, 140 years ago yesterday, three policemen were ...

Doug Morrissey’s new book Ned Kelly: Selectors, Squatters and Stock Thieves. (Pic: Supplied) The rowdy shanty lifestyle with its larrikinism, gambling, fighting, petty crime, habitual ...

Ned Kelly in a dress was first introduced by author Peter Carey in his 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel, True History of the Kelly Gang, on which the book is based. The rationale behind this bold ...

The story of Ned Kelly has become a source of myth, and sometimes the narrative leaves out important facts. The stories and films that focus on his life build on the myth. In his book, Peter Carey ...

Ned Kelly, the son of Irish immigrants, was executed in Australia on November 11, 1880. Donald Sutherland, a bank teller from Scotland who immigrated to Australia, recounted the Glenrowan Siege ...

Ned Kelly “wanted land and horses ... Now both the letter and the drafts of the book — a fictionalised version of that letter kept in that library — have made their home in the actual ...