Published in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history. Volume 1 covers the first sixty-eight years of European immigration. Volume 2 addresses the campaign for the discontinuation of criminal transportation and the origins of the Elected Council, and concludes with substantial appendices.
Published after his death in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history.
