Dr Darrell Lewis

Darrell Lewis

Dr Darrell Lewis is a Research Fellow at the National Museum's Centre for Historical Research.

He has worked in the Northern Territory over the past 36 years, in jobs ranging from Bureau of Mineral Resources field assistant, to Northern Territory Museum field officer and consultant historian with the Australian National Trust (NT) and the Northern Land Council.

Darrell has written extensively on the Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land and the Victoria River district in the Northern Territory, along with the settler history of the Victoria River and Top End.

He has also published papers on the explorers AC Gregory, Burke and Wills, and Ludwig Leichhardt.

In 2004 Darrell completed a PhD on the early history of the Victoria River district.

Darrell's history publications include:

• Beyond the Big Run, the biography of Northern Territory cattleman Charlie Schultz
• Slower than the Eye Can See, an environmental history of the Victoria River district
• Kajirri, the Bush Missus, the memoir of Lexie Simmons, who lived on Victoria River Downs from the late 1940s to the late 1950s
• Roping in the History of Broncoing, which traces the history of Australian outback cattle-handling technologies
• The Murranji Track, the history of a legendary Northern Territory stock route.