Editing History of Victoria (section)

== Kelly Gang ==
[[File:Ned Kelly in 1880.png|thumb|right|150px|Ned Kelly the day before his execution in 1880.]]
From 1878 to 1880 Victoria was the location of the celebrated [[bushranger]] [[Ned Kelly]] and his gang. Historian [[Geoffrey Serle]] has called Kelly and his gang "the last expression of the lawless frontier in what was becoming a highly organised and educated society, the last protest of the mighty bush now tethered with iron rails to Melbourne and the world".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Serle |first=Geoffrey |title=The Rush to Be Rich: A History of the Colony of Victoria 1883–1889 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-522-84009-4 |page=11 |author-link=Geoffrey Serle}}</ref> In the century after his execution in Melbourne in 1880, Kelly became a [[cultural icon]], inspiring [[Ned Kelly in popular culture|numerous works in the arts and popular culture]], and is the subject of more biographies than any other Australian.