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Matt Murphy

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At school, Matt Murphy failed English and couldn't see the point of history. He became a firie and has been serving in Sydney's inner city for 38 years. He is now also a part time historian and teacher, tolerating the attitudes of kids towards history that he used to share.

He has written four books: Weight of Evidence, about what was the longest civil court case in New South Wales; Rum, about the influence of alcohol in colonial Australia; Gold, concerning the life of Edward Hargraves and his dubious claim to be Australia's gold discoverer; and Straya Day, looking at 237 other things that could instead be commemorated on Australia's national day.

Matt also can't believe they made him write his own bio.
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Average rating: 3.95 · 130 ratings · 25 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Rum: A Distilled History of...

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Weight of Evidence

3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Rum by Matt   Murphy
"I really enjoyed this. It's an easy read and far more entertaining than most history books. I picked it up to quickly check one chapter out in case it was useful research for something I'm writing and ended up reading the whole thing for fun. Definit" Read more of this review »
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My favourite. Not necessarily a lot of fun stories (though many are!) but great fun to research and write.
Killing for Country by David Marr
"Compulsive and compulsory reading

'KILLING for Country' is an essential account of Australia's bloody and atrocity filled colonial past. Such a grotesque past needs to be faced, acknowledged and its consequences for First Australians recognised and ad" Read more of this review »
Killing for Country by David Marr
"If this detailed account of the brutality of white settlement wasn’t grim enough, reading it in the shadow of the recent defeat of a referendum that might have gone a tiny, tentative step towards redress was dark indeed.

This is an account of how vest" Read more of this review »
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"Quite a good read."
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better than his last one.
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“History is just one f*cking thing after another”
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