In this episode we look at the devastation that bushfires have wrought upon the Australian landscape, and their effect on early colonial literature with PhD candidate, Finnuala Morgan.

Our featured story - Black Thursday - profiles the first recorded 'major' bushfire in Victoria in 1851.

Mentioned in the episode

Charles Harpur’s 1851 poem called The Bush Fire

A collection of Australian bushfire stories published by Orbiter - 

Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories

Mythologised, memorialised then forgotten: a history of Australia’s bushfire reporting by Finn Morgan

Black Thursday bushfires

Main Stories

Black Thursday

Ria: A West Australian Story

To Be Continued in Trove

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