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# Warren Fahey

Exploring the Australian identity through history, story, song and folklore

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- [Collectors of Australian Folklore & Music](https://warrenfahey.com.au/collectors-of-australian-folklore-music/) - Collectors of Australian Folklore & Music The Folk Song Collectors. Australia has been good at preserving its bricks and mortar and wattle and daub heritage but not so good at preserving non-material history, particularly folklore. We have no Smithsonian Institute dedicated to collecting and preserving folklore. Still, thankfully, we do have the National Library of
- [History of Australian Folk Clubs & Performers](https://warrenfahey.com.au/history-of-australian-folk-clubs-performers/) - History of Australian Folk Clubs & Performers (Warren Fahey) I commenced going to folk clubs in my final year of school. I was 16 going on 17 and had commenced bushwalking with the Youth Hostels Association and intrigued by folk ballads that were part of popular music at the time. Campfire singalongs were an integral
- [Bushranging and other Crimes](https://warrenfahey.com.au/bushranging-and-other-crimes/) - A snap shot of the most notorious bushrangers, when they died, and how. Joe Watson, aged 92, sings the complete "Ballad of the Kelly Gang', a song he learnt around 1900. Recorded by Warren Fahey, Caringbah, NSW, 1974 In 1879 J. H. Heaton published a ‘Book of Dates’ relating to the early years of the
- [Musical Instruments](https://warrenfahey.com.au/musical-instruments/) - A popular bush tune The concertina was invented in England, around 1830, by Sir Charles Wheatstone, who also pioneered the Telegraph and the appropriately named, Wheatstone Bridge. . The instrument was initially a scientific curiosity until, in 1836, it was marketed as a serious musical instrument, leading to its patent in 1844. By the 1850s
- [Australian Folk Music](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-folk-music/) - From 'Notes From Home' - a music documentary by Clinton Walker for ABC TV. Made so long ago I had forgotten about it! That's Sharon Frost on concertina and Bob Campbell on fiddle. COLONIAL MUSIC Australia’s European settlement history was as a penal settlement. A destination to dump Britain's unwanted criminal class. From the arrival
- [Concert Recordings](https://warrenfahey.com.au/concert-recordings/) - By Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - Tom Mann Theatre In 1974 I started corresponding with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger about a possible tour of Australia. Neither had been to Australia and had always longed to visit. Peggy had recorded numerous bush songs accompanying A.L.Lloyd on his early Wattle/Topic recordings and had a certain
- [Lean and Mean Depression Times](https://warrenfahey.com.au/lean-and-mean-depression-times/) - Humping the Drum Documentary
- [Pioneering and Settlers](https://warrenfahey.com.au/pioneering-and-settlers/) - Ginny on the Moor - an old ballad For many of our pioneering ancestors’ life ‘up the country’ was the real Australia. There was an endless plain where the very air smacked of freedom. The memories of prison hulks, chain gangs and hostile natives were long forgotten – replaced by gold, sheep, wheat and cattle.
- [Maritime - Sea songs & shanties](https://warrenfahey.com.au/maritime-sea-songs-shanties/) - The Golden Vanity The sea can be a mysterious place and it is little wonder early sailors were superstitious. They were particularly afraid of disturbing the deep and summonsing up bad weather. Tales of 'Davy Jones' Locker', a place somewhere in the deep where sailors went after they died, were common. This next ballad, also
- [History of Australian Folk Clubs & Performers II](https://warrenfahey.com.au/history-of-australian-folk-clubs-performers-ii/) - History of Australian Folk Clubs & Performers II (Warren Fahey) I commenced going to folk clubs in my final year of school. I was 16 going on 17 and had commenced bushwalking with the Youth Hostels Association and intrigued by folk ballads that were part of popular music at the time. Campfire singalongs were an
- [Australian Folk - Early Live Recordings](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-folk-early-live-recordings/) - Peter Dickie Peter was part of the early folk revival, a singer at clubs and festivals and on early recordings with Martyn- Wyndham-Read. Peter, in the early days, had a particular interest in Australian bush songs. He is an accomplished graphic artist and is represented in the NGV. Richard Brooks (deceased) Richard was a Sydney-based
- [Convicts](https://warrenfahey.com.au/convicts/) - The Dodger. My mother’s family, the Solomons’ and Phillips’ were from the ‘cockney’ district of London, born in hearing distance from the Bow Bells (the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside). I always picture them as part of the costermonger and rowdy music hall culture (which they were on both counts). They had many
- [Dance](https://warrenfahey.com.au/dance/) - The Australian Bush Orchestra - Jenny lind Polka/Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye We have always danced. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples danced traditional and contemporary formations for social and ceremonial purposes. European settlers also primarily danced variations of dances from England, Scotland and Ireland. The military danced quadrilles and waltzes to
- [Mining](https://warrenfahey.com.au/mining/) - There was also a musical based on the event however, because of the outcry, it was shelved. You can watch a clip on the reaction the idea caused. Beaconsfield: The Musical by Dan Ilic. 2008 What Beaconsfield did create was humour. I had tracked several disasters including Cyclone Tracey, Twin Towers, Bali Bombing and the
- [Unionism and Labour History](https://warrenfahey.com.au/unionism-and-labour-history/)
- [Children’s School Songs & War Cries](https://warrenfahey.com.au/childrens-school-songs-war-cries/) - Wagga Wagga High School, NSW One, two, three, four, Who do you think we’re barracking for? Five, six, seven, eight,
- [Sport History & Songs](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sport-history-songs/) - Another famous fist cuff 'battle' took place on the George's River, Sydney, and is also commemorated with a song. John Foley (Eire) versus Sandy Ross (Ulster). In this case the opponents were Irish - one from the south, the 'green', and the other from the north, 'the 'orange'. Warren Fahey sings 'The Orange And The
- [Songsters and Singing Rooms](https://warrenfahey.com.au/songsters-and-singing-rooms/) - Songsters and Singing Rooms I’VE GOT THE MUSIC RIGHT HERE IN MY POCKET. THE ROLE OF SONGSTERS IN AUSTRALIAN MUSIC Songsters are generally pocket-sized song books used to commercially distribute the words of popular songs of the day. Some later songsters carried simplistic musical notation however 95% of songs are words only. The use of
- [Australian Tradition Magazine](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-tradition-magazine/) - Australian Tradition Magazine Australian Tradition Magazine was the newsletter of the Folklore Society of Victoria from 1964 June 1971, and after that, the Victorian Folk Music Club. Edited by Wendy Lowenstein, it became the national magazine for folklore collectors and folk music and dance followers. Between 1961 - 1964 the Victorian Bush Music Club (established
- [LGBTQI+ Folklore](https://warrenfahey.com.au/lgbtqi-folklore/) - The Gay Farm Hard - bush poem
- [Shearers and the Wool Industry](https://warrenfahey.com.au/shearers-and-the-wool-industry/) - SHEARING SNIPPETS
- [Sydney Stories Films](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sydney-stories-films/) - Convict’s Tour of Hell
- [Larrikins & Layabouts](https://warrenfahey.com.au/larrikins-layabouts/) - AUSTRALIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY 1905 ERNEST CHARLES BULEY NY KNICKERBOCKER PRESS The main amusement of the Push – and all exists primarily for the sake of amusement – are dances, picnics, and, on special occasions, organised rowdyism. The young women who figure at the dances and picnics have the same taste for feathers
- [Eccentrics - City & Bush](https://warrenfahey.com.au/eccentrics-city-bush/) - The Salvation Army had a challenging job in 19th century Australia - they went bush to convert the hard-working, hard-drinking itinerant workers. They adopted the concertina into their bands because the instrument was also popular with the bush workers. This song probably sums up many of the drinker's thoughts. A 'zack' was a colloquial term
- [Tucker](https://warrenfahey.com.au/tucker-2/) - 'Old Black Billy' In 1973 I recorded an itinerant bush worker who was known in the Lachlan Valley district as’ Old Cole’ (I never did discover his real name or see any signs of a younger version) and he gushed freely about the importance of tea in a bushman’s life. “Forget the booze, forget the beauty
- [MultiCultural Stewpot](https://warrenfahey.com.au/multicultural-stewpot/)
- [Early Australian Stage](https://warrenfahey.com.au/early-australian-stage/) - Early Australian Stage & Radio (Warren Fahey). The stories associated with early Australian theatre are quite fascinating. Over the years, I have done some acting stints, the most recent being one of three performers in Martyn Wyndham-Read’s stage show, ‘I Don’t Go Shearing Now’. Before that, in 2010, I collaborated with distinguished Australian actor Max
- [Droving Cattle](https://warrenfahey.com.au/droving-cattle-sheep/) - DROVER'S DITTIES/THE FLASH STOCKMAN Drovers have been a part of the Australian outback mystique ever since European settlement expanded to include farming. These men, and now women, traverse the bush leading large herds of cattle and sheep across land as they fatten their charges and head for the sale stations. It is hard work as
- [Australian Aboriginal and Islander Peoples](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-aboriginal-and-islander-peoples/) - Australian Aboriginal and Islander Peoples (Warren Fahey) This section is an unusual contribution to the understanding of Australian indigenous culture. As a performer and collector of folklore, I have been fortunate to travel widely in Australia, including several trips to the Torres Straits. As a record producer, I also worked with many indigenous communities to
- [Stockmen & Station Life](https://warrenfahey.com.au/stockmen-station-life/) - There were other colonial station workers - some itinerants and others employed full-time - sheep washers, well-sinkers, fencers, rabbiters, doggers and, of course, shearers, rouseabouts, cooks, wool classers and transport drivers. The large station house, often jokingly called ‘Government House’, also had staff, often a storekeeper, bookkeeper, and a husband and wife domestic team. Indigenous Australians
- [Bush Poetry](https://warrenfahey.com.au/bush-poetry/) - Renowned bush poet/actor Geoffrey W. Graham interviewed by Warren Fahey in South Australia 1915. Geoffrey recites 'Lost' The following charming story was published in 1919 and provides some examples of how city folk viewed the language of the bush. THE LANGUAGE OF THE BUSH At a station but a few days ago I heard a
- [Australian Humour - Yarn Telling](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-humour-yarn-telling/)
- [Country Music in Australia - its roots & branches.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/country-music-in-australia-its-roots-branches/) - Country Music in Australia - its roots & branches. Country Music in Australia is related to the old bush songs, although you wouldn’t believe it if you turned on your radio today. Early country music here was born of amateur hour broadcasts, travelling tent shows and the success of early radio. Distant cousin to the
- [Folklore – weather, calendar, weddings etc](https://warrenfahey.com.au/folklore-weather-calendar-weddings-etc/) - How to count the months of the year using knuckles In the nineteenth century Australians lived by a calendar and seasonal guide known as an almanac. These booklets detailed the days of the month, holidays, sunrise and sunsets, best planting and reaping times etc and, considering that the average person did not own a watch
- [Australia at War - Digger’s Songs](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australia-at-war-diggers-songs/) - Dinki-Di (Horseferry Road) One of the most enduring traditions of ANZAC Day is the fellowship of sharing songs and ditties. These song-swapping rites, usually accompanied by a bellyful of Anzac day beer, are conducted under Rafferty's Rules with popular wartime songs being belted out alongside bawdy ballads, tall stories and barrack-room ditties. The songs of
- [Transport](https://warrenfahey.com.au/transport/) - Jimmy Nicholas - Cobb & Co The story of Cobb & Co is an extraordinary success story worthy of a blockbuster film. The Australian outback was brought together by the rattle and roll of the wheels of Cobb & Co coaches. Drawn by teams of mighty, sweating horses under the crack of the whip of
- [Sydney & Town Life](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sydney-town-life/) - Australians colloquially refer to a trip to the lavatory as ‘going to the dunny’. They also say ‘going to the John’, ‘the bog’, ‘the outhouse’, ‘the shed up the back’ ‘visit the smallest room in the house’, and ‘the shit house’ (sometimes described simply as ‘shouse’. On their arrival they ‘point Percy at the porcelain’ (Barry Humphries), ‘have a
- [Australian States & Territories](https://warrenfahey.com.au/australian-states-territories/) - Here are some titbits about the land of the Croweaters. The first reference to ‘croweaters’ appeared in the Maitland Mercury 19 Feb. 1874, but the report talks as if the term was already well established in South Australia. ‘CROW-EATERS.’ origin of term Most people can provide satisfactory explanations of how the term ‘Cornstalks’ (N.S.W.), ‘Sandgropers
- [Colloquial Sayings & Slangugae](https://warrenfahey.com.au/colloquial-sayings-slangugae/) - This collection of words and phrases is an attempt to capture the usage of the spoken language of the era in which I grew up, and am still learning the everyday communications of the people who were my parents, their peers & co-inhabitants, my schoolmates and workmates, at the start of the closing of the
- [Sydney Suburban Snapshots](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sydney-suburban-snapshots/) - Woolloomooloo Snapshot It will come as a surprise to many readers that Woolloomooloo was once the most desirable suburb in Sydney. Forget Double Bay, Ashfield, Elizabeth Bay, and don’t even think about the north shore, for in the first half of the nineteenth century if you didn’t live in the ‘Loo, you were living in
- [Burial Grounds of Colonial Sydney](https://warrenfahey.com.au/burial-grounds-of-colonial-sydney/) - INDIGENOUS burials Before the arrival of the Europeans, Aboriginal mortuary practices varied considerably across Australia. In the Sydney region, British settlers noted that cremation and burial were the most common disposal methods. Bodies were buried horizontal or standing up, depending on local custom. We also know grave markings such as painted funereal poles were used
- [Alcohol & Tobacco](https://warrenfahey.com.au/alcohol-tobacco/) - The Big Gun Shearer On the Rantan and Lambed Down Pioneering Australians had a reputation for hard work and hard play and there are numerous songs, poems and yarns about excessive drining but none can come up to the story of the shearer, Bill Brink, who drank ‘acid with never a wink’. There have been
- [Sydney Harbour](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sydney-harbour/) - Damned Souls and Turning Wheels. Surprisingly few people know of the fascinating stories associated with Cockatoo Island and its place in Sydney’s maritime, social and labour history. It is a somewhat dark history, commencing its life as an isolated convict prison and later becoming a place of confinement and training for orphaned and wayward young
- [Children’s Rhymes & Play](https://warrenfahey.com.au/childrens-rhymes-play/) - Three Men Came A-hunting
- [Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Urban Myths](https://warrenfahey.com.au/superstitions-ghost-stories-urban-myths/) - Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Urban Myths (Warren Fahey) I was raised as a rationalist and skeptic. It's in my nature to doubt and question. Ghost stories, superstitions and urban myths are stock-in-trade for folklorists. I acknowledge and thank Robb Tilley for contributing the following lengthy study. Readers are invited to contribute their ghostly stories -
- [Sydney Folk Clubs](https://warrenfahey.com.au/sydney-folk-clubs/) - Sydney Folk Clubs & Performers Conscription Malcolm J. Turnbull[ This paper was originally published, in six parts, in TRAD & NOW Magazine]I suspect that debate over the relative merits, importance and long-term influence of the early Melbourne and Sydney folk scenes has always been coloured by well-entrenched intercity rivalry. More puritanical elements within the southern folk
- [Goldrush - History & Songs](https://warrenfahey.com.au/goldrush-history-songs/) - A World Turned Upside Down - Luke Webb Charles Thatcher was known as the 'Colonial Minstrel' and wrote (and sang) hundreds of satirical songs. Apparently he wasn't much of a singer but the miners loved his parodies and his continual biting of authority's ankles. This next song entered the oral tradition and several version, with
- [Bawdy Song, Poetry and Worse](https://warrenfahey.com.au/bawdy-song-poetry-and-worse/) - The Kings Cross Harlot's Ball. The most notable Australian bawdry scholar was the late Dr. Donald ‘Don’ Laycock, author of The Best Bawdry (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1982). Laycock, a distinguished linguist and anthropologist, set out to collect bawdy songs in the nineteen-fifties when, as he comments in the book’s introductory essay, ‘the oral tradition
- [Videos - Australian stage shows](https://warrenfahey.com.au/videos-australian-stage-shows/) - A taste of Dead Men Talking Max Cullen as Henry Lawson and Warren Fahey as Banjo Paterson in ‘Dead Men Talking’ (photo Phil Blatch) Dead Men Laughing. Again, I teamed up with Max Cullen to tell the story of two of Australia’s best-known humorists, Lenny Lower and ‘Mo’ Roy Rene. We did a few performances
- [Kookaburra Sits on the Old Gum Tree](https://warrenfahey.com.au/kookaburra-sits-on-the-old-gum-tree/) - Kookaburra Sits on the Old Gum Tree (Warren Fahey). Firstly, let me state that I had nothing to do with the legal case involving Men At Work and their use of a riff from the children’s rhyme ‘Kookaburra On An Old Gum Tree’. It seems I have to use every opportunity to state this fact,
- [Dogs - Folklore & History in Australia](https://warrenfahey.com.au/dogs-folklore-history-in-australia/) - A Dog's Mistake (A.B.Paterson) One of the best-known bushranging stories is of Tasmania’s Martin Cash, who became a legend for twice thwarting the dreaded ‘Dog Line’ at Eaglehawk Neck. A detachment of military guards with a line of ferocious dogs was used to guard the narrow isthmus of the Port Arthur convict goal to prevent
- [Radio Programs & Podcasts](https://warrenfahey.com.au/radio-programs-podcasts/) - Radio Programs & Podcasts (Warren Fahey) As a young Turk, I was fortunate enough to establish a relationship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (now Commission) which led to me writing and producing several dramatic radio series. They proved popular and eventually led to me being a regular presenter and contributor on the long-running Sunday Folk
- [* Outback Stories](https://warrenfahey.com.au/outback-stories/) - One hundred years ago, most Australians, particularly those in the bush, knew Sidney Kidman's name and his accomplishments as the ‘cattle king’. Kidman always saw the harsh ruggedness and challenges of the outback as an opportunity. At his peak, he seemed to be everywhere and rarely missed an opportunity. His voracious appetite for buying and

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- [A Hop, A Skip & A Jump: the history of Australian Childhood Amusements](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/a-hop-a-skip-a-jump-the-history-of-australian-childhood-amusements/) - What a rich array of pleasures in this book! Warren Fahey is both historian and folklorist, and the many threads of the play lives of Australian children – physical, verbal and musical - are interwoven here with the daily circumstances of their lives from convict transportation to the present. Adults will rediscover the joys of their young years, children will enlarge their play repertoire. A family treasure. (Dr) June Factor Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne Honorary Associate, Museum Victoria Warren Fahey's remarkable history, A Hop, Step and a Jump, is in his own words, a celebration of childhood. The celebration has many forms, for children's resilience and endurance, and also for joy, in describing the many pleasures play and games have always offered to children. Games are described in fascinating detail, with many illustrations. A Hop, Step and a Jump also highlights the importance of the study of children and their own unique play culture. Many researchers, from the great Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget onwards, have described play's influence on child language and intellectual development, on creativity, on personal relationships, and on social skills of all kinds. Warren Fahey's Hop, Step and a Jump is a readable, insightful and entertaining contribution to the great canon of childhood studies. (Gwenda Beed Davey) 498 pages of living history and folklore. Explore the games, play and magic of childhood. A major work by Warren Fahey
- [Alive With History: Kings Cross, Potts Point, Rushcutters Bay, Elizabeth Bay & Woolloomooloo in the Good Old Bad Old Days](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/alive-with-history-kings-cross-potts-point-rushcutters-bay-elizabeth-bay-woolloomooloo-in-the-good-old-bad-old-days/) - The suburbs of Kings Cross, Potts Point, Rushcutters Bay, Elizabeth Bay and Woolloomooloo have all, in their own ways, been entertainment destinations for well over a century. This book is full of photographs and illustrations. fahey, warren A History of Sydney's inner east and the role of Kings Cross and surrounding suburbs as entertainment destinations for over a century.
- [TUCKER TRACK: The curious history of food and drink in Australia.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/tucker-track-the-curious-history-of-food-and-drink-in-australia/) - A unique treasury of Australia’s fascinating culinary traditions, from an authentic recipes for kangaroo tail cooked in the Aboriginal way, to the peculiar craze for ‘paperboy cooking’ in the 1920s, to nostalgic reminiscences of musk-sticks and Choo-Choo bars. Brimming with old wives tales, schoolyard rhymes, songs and jokes, Tucker Track takes teh reader on an evocative journey that stops off at iconic foods, festivals, rituals, school tuck shops, dinner parties , takeaways, etiquette and other stations on the way. “What a joy to be reminded of so much lore and wisdom from our childhood” Margaret Fulton. Paperback | 310 pages. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.
- [DIGGERS’ SONGS: Australian songs, parodies and ditties from the servicemen and women who sang them. From the Maori Wars to the Gulf War.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/diggers-songs-australian-songs-parodies-and-ditties-from-the-servicemen-and-women-who-sang-them-from-the-maori-wars-to-the-gulf-war/) - The Australian ‘digger’ was renowned as a fighter, especially alongside his ANZAC mates from over the ditch. They were determined fighters but hated saluting. This collection spans Australia’s involvement in eleven wars and skirmishes. It is also a comment on how music was used in wartime to boost morale, soothe raddled souls and provide an opportunity to sound off about the enemy and authority. Hardback - large format | 220 pages | Illustrated. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.
- [CLASSIC BUSH YARNS: outback humour, tall tales, yarns & bulldust](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/classic-bush-yarns-outback-humour-tall-tales-yarns-bulldust/) - The Australian sense of humour was born of convict blood, hopeful gold diggers, itinerant bush workers, frustrated cow cockies, canny swagmen, iron-backed bush women, laconic soldiers, sweaty factory workers and larrikin city slickers. Dad, Dave & Mabel are well-represented alongside Lazy Len and some of Australia’s best-known liars. Paperback | 222 pages. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.
- [Sing Us Anothery, Dirty As Buggery](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/sing-us-anothery-dirty-as-buggery/) - The Celebrated Knickers & Knockers Band sing some of the filthiest and naughtiest songs ever circulated in Australia. This is NOT the album to play for your granny - or anyone under the age of fifteen. The songs are racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist and downright disgustingly funny. The album, one of a pair, is the
- [Rooted in the Country. The bawdies Vol 2](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/rooted-in-the-country-the-bawdies-vol-2/) - The second album from the Celebrated Knickers & Knocker's Band. And it is just as disgustingly funny as the first. Definitely R-rated.
- [A Hair Past A Freckle: a larrikin life in folklore, music & mayhem.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/a-hair-past-a-freckle-a-larrikin-life-in-folklore-music-mayhem/) - Warren Fahey takes readers on a wild ride through the music business, including his legendary Folkways Music store, fiercely independent Larrikin Record label, and behind-the-scenes of some of Sydney's most outrageous social events. Then, in the wink of an eye, he goes bush recording folklore and old songs, searching for signposts to the Australian identity. As a performer, he struts stages all over the world and Australia's outback, including remote Aboriginal communities and one-horse mining towns (where the horse has usually bolted) and then, in costume as 'Banjo' Paterson, performing alongside Max Cullen (as Henry Lawson) in their hugely successful two-man play 'Dead Men Talking'. Then there's another side, as Warren recounts stories about some of Sydney's notorious alternative underground parties where nothing was sacred and everything surprised. The memoir is revealing, quirky, and often hilariously funny as it firmly presses nostalgia buttons and celebrates the genuine Australian larrikin spirit.
- [DEAD & BURIED: The curious history of Sydney’s earliest burial sites.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/dead-buried-the-curious-history-of-sydneys-earliest-burial-sites/) - The curious history of Sydney’s three earliest burial grounds - the Old Burial Grounds on George Street, the Devonshire Sandhills Cemetery and the grand Rookwood Necropolis. Tales of how early Sydneysiders dealt with death from Victorian gloom to the battle for crematoriums. Fascinating stories and a best-seller. Paperback / Hardback (Limited Edition) | 700 pages, illustrations, index. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.
- [RATBAGS & RABBLEROUSERS: A century of political protest, song and satire.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/ratbags-rabblerousers-a-century-of-political-protest-song-and-satire/) - From the ‘father of Federation’, Henry Parkes, and fat ‘Georgie Porgie Reid, to the Depression’s ‘Big Jack’ Lang, ‘Pig Iron’ Bob Menzies, B.A. Santamaria, Arthur ‘Two Wongs Don’t make a White’ Caldwell, Joh burke Petersen and Pauline Hansen, Alan Bond and Skate, Whitlam, Fraser, Howard and Hawke … the great the hideous and the eccentric are immortalised in rousing verse and humour. Stories of political splits, strikes and scabs, swindlers and cries, anti war marches, conservative rallies and struggle. The successor to ‘The Balls of Bob Menzies’. Paperback | 388 pages. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.
- [THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS: The curious history of Woolloomooloo, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Rushcutters Bay and Kings-Bloody-Cross.](https://warrenfahey.com.au/product/the-good-old-bad-old-days-the-curious-history-of-woolloomooloo-potts-point-elizabeth-bay-rushcutters-bay-and-kings-bloody-cross/) - The 2011 postcode of Sydney’s inner east offers a fascinating history of highlife, low life and, sometimes, very low life. All five precincts are alive with history and surprising stories. Ride the scenic railway over snow-capped mountains of the forgotten White City at Rushcutters Bay; see teh naughty boys waving their willies at ferry passengers at Woolloomooloo; chase peeping Toms in Elizabeth bay; tap to the tunes of cabaret’s greats at the Silver Spade, Potts Point, or dare to be different in yesterday’s Kings-Bloody-Cross. Paperback | 358 pages, photographs. For multiple copies or international orders please contact me for best rates.

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