Author talk: Stephen Gapps on Gudyarra 2022

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In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps - award-winning author of The Sydney Wars - unearths what led to this furious and bloody war, beginning with the occupation of Wiradyuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle.

Gudyarra traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children, Gapps provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradyuri resistance.

About the author: Dr Stephen Gapps has a long-standing interest in public history and the history of early colonial Sydney. Stephen has taught Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney, and worked extensively as consultant historian in heritage, museums, film and television and history events and performances. He is currently a curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

In 2011 Stephen won the NSW Premiers History Prize for Regional and Community history with his book Cabrogal to Fairfield - A history of a multicultural community and has won the inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize for his work, The Sydney Wars - Conflict in the early colony 1788-1817.

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