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Lyndall Ryan was born in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia in 1943. She earned her B.A. at the University of Sydney and completed her Ph.D at Macquarie University.

Ryan has conducted extensive research into the experiences of Aboriginal Tasmanians. Her first book, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, was published in 1981, offered a compelling viewpoint on the history of Aboriginal and European relations. In so doing, she entered the fray of competing narratives about that shared history, known in Australia as the “history wars”. Future publications of her work stood firm on her interpretations, and even expanded upon them. She fiercely opposed the whitewashing of Australian history and advocated for a critical, honest view at the troubling history of Australian and Aboriginal relations.

She has also conducted significant field work, collaborating with the University of Newcastle to map aboriginal massacre sites in Australia. They discovered 270 distinct sites of violence against the Aboriginal peoples, representing a concerted effort at wiping out those populations forever.

Ryan has been honored for her contributions to women’s and indigenous people’s history by the History Council of New South Wales. She was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her scholarship and research efforts. Today, she is a Professor for the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle.

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According to Wikipedia, Lyndall Ryan, is an Australian academic and historian. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and was Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle from 1998 to 2005. She is currently Conjoint Professor in the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle.

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Lyndall Ryan's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Aboriginal Tasmanians (1981) (209)
Settler massacres on the Port Phillip Frontier, 1836–1851 (2010) (79)
Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803 (2012) (78)
The Land Boomers (1973) (54)
The voyage to Marege (1976) (49)
Who Was That Woman?: The Australian Women's Weekly in the Post-War Years (2001) (40)
The black swan of trespass: The emergence of Modernist painting in Australia to 1944 (1979) (31)
'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania (2010) (19)
Theatres of violence : massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history (2012) (11)
Untangling Aboriginal resistance and the settler punitive expedition: the Hawkesbury River frontier in New South Wales, 1794–1810 (2013) (10)
Aboriginal women and agency in the process of conquest: A review of some recent work (1986) (9)
The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land: success or failure? (2013) (9)
Reflections on genocide and settler-colonial violence (2016) (9)
Who is the fabricator (2003) (9)
Colonial frontier massacres in Eastern Australia 1788-1872 (2017) (9)
Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania 1823–34: a case study of the Meander River Region, June 1827 (2008) (8)
Reading Aboriginal Histories (1986) (8)
Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education: Introduction and Brief History. (1991) (7)
The Role of the Withdrawal Method in the control of Abortion (1998) (7)
Salutary Lessons: Native Police and the ‘Civilising’ Role of Legalised Violence in Colonial Australia (2018) (7)
Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: self-government and imperial culture (2016) (6)
The Right Book for the Right Time (2003) (6)
Women, abortion and the state (1993) (6)
Mother and daughter feminists, 1969–1973. or why didn't Edna Ryan join women's liberation? (2004) (5)
Massacre in the old and new worlds, c.1780–1820 (2013) (5)
Origins of a royal commission (1996) (5)
Risdon Cove and the massacre of 3 May 1804: their place in Tasmanian history (2004) (4)
Reflections by a target of a media witch hunt (2003) (4)
Historians, friendly mission and the contest for Robinson and Trukanini (2008) (4)
The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1830 (2013) (4)
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre (2018) (4)
List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835 (2008) (3)
Settler massacres on the Australian colonial frontier, 1836-1851 (2012) (3)
The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century (2011) (3)
Postcolonialism and the historian: the Aboriginal history wars (2001) (3)
Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History (2015) (2)
A Turning Point for the 'Weekly' and a Turning Point for Women?: The Debate about Women and University in the Australian Women's Weekly in 1961 (2001) (2)
Book Review:The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian Family, 1880-1940 Kerreen Reiger (1988) (2)
Shopping malls country: Reading the central coast of NSW (2005) (2)
The Australian Agricultural Company, the Van Diemen’s Land Company: Labour Relations with Aboriginal Landowners, 1824–1835 (2018) (2)
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History, A. Dirk Moses, ed. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), 325 pp., cloth $63.75, pbk $21.25. (2007) (2)
The governed: convict women in Tasmania 1803/ 1853 (1990) (1)
A.A. Morrison : an appreciation (1986) (1)
Rediscovering Recherche Bay and The axe had never sounded: place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania (book review) (2009) (1)
The Australian Women's Weekly 1946–1971: A textual and historical analysis (1992) (1)
The extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines: myth and reality (1972) (1)
Remembering Myall Creek (2018) (1)
Woman and home in Australia (1987) (1)
Establishing a Code of Silence: Civilian and State Complicity in Genocidal Massacres on the New South Wales Frontier, 1788–1859 (2021) (1)
Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds, Canberra, 29-30 August 2008 (2008) (1)
Irynej Skira (1950-2005): A scientific life (2008) (1)
Vincent O'Malley helps New Zealand confront its bloody history (2019) (1)
Outcasts in White Tasmania (2009) (1)
Book review: Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism (2000) (0)
Books (1881) (0)
The Cambridge History of Australia, Volumes 1 and 2 (2014) (0)
Martial Law in the British Empire (2018) (0)
The long shadow of remembrance’: Remembering the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania (2009) (0)
Grease and Ochre: The Blending of Two Cultures on the Colonial Frontier: Roving Mariners Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870 (2014) (0)
Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism [Book Review] (2000) (0)
Rewriting Aboriginal History (2010) (0)
Frontier Violence in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2020) (0)
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (review) (2007) (0)
Tom Lawson. The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania . London: I. B. Taurus, 2014. Pp. 263. £25.00 (cloth). (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Edna Ryan and leadership: The Womens Trade Union Commission, 1976 (2013) (0)
Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia (2020) (0)
Forged by war (book review) (2008) (0)
Obituary, Barbara Curthoys: communist activist and researcher. (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (2014) (0)
Robert Cox, Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements grapple with the lives of two warriors from the Black War in Tasmania (2022) (0)
Recent works on aborigines (1973) (0)
Books (2006) (0)
Remembering the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1950s (2002) (0)
Pathfinder: John Iremonger 1944-2002. Publisher. (2002) (0)
Liverpool University Press: Journals (2011) (0)
Making the past visible : the University of Newcastle's map of frontier massacres (2018) (0)
Tasmania's Black War in new contexts (2014) (0)
Making the history of the Australian colonial frontier visible: how the Newcastle Digital Map of Frontier Massacres is changing the way we understand the past (2019) (0)
William (Bill) Louis Thorpe (11 August 1943–16 November 2009) (2011) (0)
Book Reviews : OUR ORIGINAL AGGRESSION: ABORIGINAL POPULATIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA 1788-1850, by Noel Butlin. Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1983. 186 pp. $12.95 (paper) (1985) (0)
Reconceptualising Convict Women (1998) (0)
Aboriginal politics in Tasmania 1975-1995 (1995) (0)
Betty Vivian Pybus (1923-2004): obituary | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository (2005) (0)
The Black Resistance [Book Review] (1979) (0)
Barbara Curthoys (2001) (0)
Newspaper evidence of colonial frontier massacres in Australia (2021) (0)
New Perspectives on the Frontier Wars. "The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838" by John Connor. [review] (2002) (0)
The Civilisation of Port Phillip: Settler Ideology, Violence, and Rhetorical Possession (2019) (0)
‘Suffrage and beyond’: New Zealand women's suffrage centenary conference Victoria University, Wellington 27–29 August 1993 (1994) (0)
My father's daughter: Memories of an Australian childhood [Book Review] (2011) (0)
Writing a Short Feminist History of Australia: Structure and Methodology (1991) (0)
Assimilating Australia (book review) (2008) (0)
The ACT cleaning industry code of best employment practice (2005) (0)
Culture of Forgetting. "Seven Versions of an Australian Badland" by Ross Gibson, "Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place" by Mark McKenna and "Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island" by Rebe Taylor. [review] (2003) (0)
Michael Belgrave, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (2018) (0)
REF: Massacre in Tasmania? How Can We Know? (2006) (0)
'The Axe Had Never Sounded': Place, People and Heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania by John Mulvaney (2009) (0)

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