Publications

For ease of reading, articles on a range of topics are available in different formats for you to read online, on devices such as an iPad, or for you to print yourself.

Currently available are:

A History in Three Rivers – a thematic history of Dungog

By the Pleasing Countenance of My Superiors – The life of Dungog Magistrate Thomas Cook, J.P. [or here if your prefer an ebook format]

This anomalous community – Dungog Magistrates’ Letterbook, 1834-1839.

A Tourist walk of Dungog village can be downloaded and printed (A3 is best) for those who plan to visit Dungog. Also as an ePub.

Ah Dungog – concerning some of the historic houses and buildings of Dungog

Available for purchase at the historic James Theatre in Dungog:

Planned topics (linked only to within this website for now) include:

        • Sections from old newspaper articles on –
            • Sport
            • Crime
            • Suicide
            • Trials
            • Roads
        • Research history yourself
        • Publish for yourself
        • History of Dungog/Clarence Town/Gresford/Paterson
        • Bushrangers
        • Sporting events/activities
        • Myths/Truth stranger than fictions
        • Gordon Bennett – The Man in the Mask
        • Social Institutions
        • From grow your own to grow your own
        • Gringai
        • A Three River History
        • Who was this Williams anyway?
        • Famous and not so famous characters