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Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn’s The Convict Valley investigates the lives and interactions of convict, Aboriginal and settler communities in the Hunter Valley.

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Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn is a public historian who has worked for over twenty years in heritage and archaeology. He completed a PhD in History in 2015 at the University of New South Wales on the colonial Hunter Valley. He is a member of the Australian Dictionary of Biography NSW Editorial board, a Councillor on the Royal Australian Historical Society, former chair of the Professional Historians Association of NSW & ACT and was the C.H. Currey Fellow at SLNSW in 2016.

Mark is descended from convicts who settled in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s. The Convict Valley was his first book and covers the history of the Hunter Valley in NSW between 1790 and 1850, investigating the lives, interactions and interconnectedness of the convict, Aboriginal and settler communities during this frontier colonial period.

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Close to Home: Colonial Violence and Family Histories

DATE April 5 TIME 3:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book now

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The Convict Valley

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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