Updated: 29 March, 2021. The latest file updated here is: musicweb.htm
Books for the times, indeed.
Barry Jones, What Is To Be Done? Political Engagement and Saving the Planet. Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Scribe, 2020.
Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread, and Why They Stop. Profile, 2020.
A suite of websites with content ranging from Australian convict history to the personal, digests of international (old not new) news, music matters, creative writing, humour, and a spot of family history, plus some of The Future too ... not to speak of a dab of satire ... See bottom of page for extra notes on what of this domain has been closed due to the corona virus worldwide pandemic by about May 2020.
E-mail anytime to: dan@danbyrnes.com.au.
You can also look for the following eleven separate websites ... (Some are now finished, some are not.)
About page - finished (now retired)
Lost Worlds - The Website - now closed - ie, finished. Explore history timelines and wonder deeply about the past.
Bibliographies/Booklists (Australian history) - work-in-progress
The Blackheath Connection - A major work in Early Modern Australian history _ The Blackheath Connection ... a 70+ page website on convict transportation to North America, then to Australia to 1810. Based on The Duncan Campbell Letterbooks 1758-1803++ held by Mitchell Library, Sydney. Finished -
The English Business of Slavery - a 12-chapter website book - finished
The Merchant Networks Project (A follow-up to The Blackheath Connection) - The Merchant Networks Project website (Updated from 3-9-2019, now being redesigned, merchant and commercial histories with Dan Byrnes and Ken Cozens)
- finished
Merchants and Bankers Listings (history) - finished
History of Music Technology (HoTM) - work-in-progress - articles and timelines)
Poetry (Poems 1-1000) - work-in-progress
Humour - work-in-progress
Short stories and a few articles - finished
Personal Website, The - work in progress
Email anytime to: dan@danbyrnes.com.au.
Who We Are
Dan Byrnes is now retired, but ... he carries on undeterred and asks the question: if Australia is indeed The Land of Lest We Forget, how and why is it that we remember so badly? ...
Your webmaster has lately been blogging on history topics at Linked-In History Enthusiasts forum; several times a Top Contributor there in 2014. Revising websites. Has lately been working on finishing two books, one, on Merchant Networks (commercial history 1760-1860), and two, "cultural comment", also blogging ... 
What these websites do
Presenting a wide variety of content ... and now being redesigned
For your information...
Watch these spaces for more changes. - Ed
Some of the crew
People to talk to, to learn from ...
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Gerry Patterson
Computer programmer, musician, friend. (Impossible to please, however, eg., in 2019 he wants to know: how good are rhetorical questions?)
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Joel Byrnes
Of Brisbane. Graphics, technical help and advice for this domain.
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Lou Farina
Photographer, webmaster, musician, joke-teller
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Andrew Clermont
Musician, multi-instrumentalist, guru, constantly on tour
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Ed Matzenik
Rock bass guitarist and video guru who inspired the website HOTM
Coming up soon: More from Larry West (of Houston, Texas, USA) on genetics of people-movements in Ancient History