It’s fairly long, but if anyone, like me, is interested in the early history of the contact between aboriginal Australians and Europeans, I think this documentary is worth a watch. I came across it two or three weeks ago: while I must admit that it strikes me as a tad anti-European and anti-British, and overtly plays into an ‘Aboriginals are victims’ narrative, on the whole I feel it’s fairly well balanced. However, what caught my attention the most was the story of Yammerrawanne, one of the very first native Australians to be brought (some say kidnaped) back to Britain with Captain James Cook. Of course, I’ve been interested in Cook and his voyages for ages, but the detail I want to flag up this evening is that, when he died in 1794, Yammerrawanne was buried at Eltham Parish Church, a church about ten minutes away from my flat and which I pass every time I go shopping, to the pub or to get cash.