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‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A dastardly bandit responsible for incredibly heinous crimes, or a runaway in search of his freedom? Meg Foster unravels the myth of “Black Douglas”, whose life of crime across 19th-century Australia made him a target of lynch mobs and the popular press. Speaking to Emily Briffett, she explains how Douglas was branded a shadowy bogeyman, and delves into his experiences as a hard-drinking prize-fighter and phrenologist. (Ad) Meg Foster is the author of Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers (NewSouth, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boundary-Crossers-history-Australias-bushrangers/dp/1742237525/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.2

And remember, it's just between us.

0:32.3

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

0:35.7

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:48.3

A colonial bogeyman, a dastardly bandit responsible for incredibly heinous crimes, or a hard-drinking prizefighter in search of his freedom.

1:00.4

The Australian bushranger, known as Black Douglas, has long been plagued by a shadowy myth.

1:07.2

While alive, his life of crime across 19th century Australia made him a target of lynch mobs and the popular press.

1:15.0

But how many of the dark deeds attributed to him did he actually commit?

1:20.2

And what drove him into the Australian bush in the first place?

1:24.1

Meg Foster, author of a new book Boundoundary Crosses, Unravel's Just That,

1:29.4

and Emily Buffett spoke to her to find out more.

1:32.3

Hi Meg, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today.

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