William Nowland

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This story about William Nowland places William's life within a period of profound and rapid change as the colony of NSW moves from a convict settlement</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to a self-governing colony. Each thread of evidence is drawn together sequentially in 'the imagining' of what it was like to be William as a first-generation colonial</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Australian.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>William's life occurred in conjunction with the dispossession of Aboriginal People of Country in all the places he settled. At each stage of his journey first-hand accounts learned publications and academic articles describe the impact of William and his fellow settlers on each of the First Nations they invaded.</em></p>