Podcast: Stuff The British Stole (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Shots Fired
Pub date: 2020-12-19

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Australian perspectives on colonisation and its consequences. This episode deals with the "first contact" in Botany Bay between James Cook's crew and the indigenous Gweagal people. A shield thought to have been taken from this initial conflict is now held by the British Museum in London, and a descendant of its original owner speaks movingly here about his efforts to reclaim it

The Gweagal shield is just one of the things James Cook and his shipmates took from the local people when they landed in Botany Bay. Why has it become the most contentious?

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