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Book A History of Bathurst  The early settlement to 1862

Download or read book A History of Bathurst The early settlement to 1862 written by Theo Barker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the settlement and early growth of the district of Bathurst up to the establishment of the first town council in 1862. Examines topics such government and management, establishment and growth of schools and churches, religious and ethnic composition, and the causes and consequences of the Aborigine-white conflict of the 1820s. Also discusses the effects of important national and international events on communities such as Bathurst. Includes maps, references, a bibliography and an index. The author is the Honorary Archivist of the Bathurst and District Historical Society.

Book The Barsden Memoirs  1799 1816

Download or read book The Barsden Memoirs 1799 1816 written by Grant Rodwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth in 1799 through his childhood to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs describe events from a Sussex smugglers’ inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling expeditions to Van Diemen’s Land, and Barsden’s participation in a Tahitian civil war. The author assesses the value of memoirs, and of these memoirs in particular to students of history in respect to the transnational paradigm. He tests the historicity and veracity of their contents, and provides an engaging exegesis and graphical supplement of its contents. Of central importance is Barsden’s account of the Battle of Fe’i Pi, which was in many respects the Pacific’s equivalent to the contemporaneous Battle of Waterloo, such was its lasting impact on Pacific geopolitics. This was no ordinary childhood, and poses many questions about a transnational adolescent’s impact on major events. A fascinating read for scholars and students of Australian, Pacific, and British Colonial History, written with academic rigour but accessible to non-specialists.

Book Queensland Lords

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Spillman
  • Publisher : Boolarong Press
  • Release : 2015-09-10
  • ISBN : 1925236439
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Queensland Lords written by Janet Spillman and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward and Eliza Lord came to Moreton Bay in 1844, arriving as the remote convict outpost was opened up for free settlement. Members of Lancashire merchant families, they had invested their inheritances in NSW lands and a Sydney merchant firm, just before the drought and crash of 1841. They moved north to rebuild their fortunes, settling at Kangaroo Point before moving to the Darling Downs to start new commercial interests. Although financial success continued to elude them, the Lord family contributed to the settlement of colonial Queensland. Edward and Eliza’s great-great-grand-daughter, Janet Spillman, explores the way Queensland moulded the Lord family’s lives, and the way family members contributed to the colony’s development.

Book Australia s Birthstain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Babette Smith
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-03-04
  • ISBN : 1459613465
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book Australia s Birthstain written by Babette Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past? Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia....

Book Lighting the Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dianne Johnson
  • Publisher : Federation Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781862874275
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Lighting the Way written by Dianne Johnson and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories captures the spirit of reconciliation. A collection of stories about individual and community acts of reconciliation, it is honest and engaging, and shows what reconciliation means and why so many Australians wish to achieve it. Each story is personal and immediate. Some trace families and relationships over generations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This book reveals Australia for all that it is, has been and can be.

Book The Convicts of the  Eleanor

Download or read book The Convicts of the Eleanor written by David Kent and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire and were transported for their part in the Swing riots - the great agricultural uprising of 1830-31. This episode which touched thirty counties and has been called 'the last peasants' revolt' led to more than 480 people being sent to Australia ('the largest single group in the history of transportation' (George Rude). The men on the Eleanor who made up 30% of the Swing transportees. Part I of the book deals with the men of the Eleanor in their English setting, Part II with their experiences as convicts and free men in New South Wales. The chapter headings below give a clear indication of the contents of each chapter and the focus of the book on ruined and then reconstructed lives Written with full academic apparatus but with that elusive being the general reader in mind, this theme will appeal to that large readership in England which is interested in rural social history and popular protest.In Australia there is a large and enthusiatic readership for books on colonial history, convictism and works which provide a context for family history. This book also has the advantage of being focussed on Hardy's Wessex and is thus, to some extent, a contribution to the regional history of southern England. The Swing Riots are a topic which features in the history syllabuses of most examination boards in southern England.

Book Well Suited to the Colony

Download or read book Well Suited to the Colony written by Gillian Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an account of the Nottinghamshire lace makers who emigrated to Australia from Frances, after the turbulence of the French Revolution. Includes family details.

Book The Search for the Inland Sea

Download or read book The Search for the Inland Sea written by Richard Johnson and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Australian explorer John Oxley (1783-1828), Surveyor-General of New South Wales. He made several expeditions along the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers as he pursued his dream of finding an 'inland sea' in the Australian interior. He was supported by Governor Macquarie who was eager to find agricultural land for the growing colony. Includes photos and maps, bibliography and index. Author was a Research Surveyor with the Central Mapping Authority in NSW and holds a Bachelor of Survey from the University of New South Wales.

Book The Overseas Chinese in Australasia

Download or read book The Overseas Chinese in Australasia written by Henry Chan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overseas chinese in Australasia: history, settlement and interactions: proceedings from the symposium held in Taipei, 6-7 January 2001 (Monograph 3)

Book The Clairmont Family Letters  1839   1889

Download or read book The Clairmont Family Letters 1839 1889 written by Sharon Joffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together the unpublished letters of the extended Clairmont family, for the first time. The letters, housed in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library, inform our understanding of the Shelley-Godwin circle through the experiences and thoughts of their descendants. The correspondence also enables us to see into the contemporary social history of nineteenth-century families living in Europe and Australia, dealing with subjects such as the conflicts in Europe, woes in the European financial markets, and the effects of Australian pioneer life on immigrants to that country. The Clairmont Family Letters, 1839–1889 improves upon scholarship made by other Shelley and Clairmont collections and is furnished with editorial notes and apparatus from Dr. Sharon Joffe. These volumes will be of significant interest to scholars in British Romanticism.

Book Australian Books in Print 1998

Download or read book Australian Books in Print 1998 written by Bowker and published by Bowker-Saur. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...excellent coverage...essential to worldwide bibliographic coverage."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. This comprehensive reference provides current finding & ordering information on more than 75,000 in-print books published in or about Australia, or written by Australian authors, organized by title, author, & keyword. You'll also find brief profiles of more than 7,000 publishers & distributors whose titles are represented, as well as information on trade associations, local agents of overseas publishers, literary awards, & more. From D.W. Thorpe.

Book A History of Bathurst  From settlement to city 1862 1914

Download or read book A History of Bathurst From settlement to city 1862 1914 written by Theo Barker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Australasia  from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Download or read book History of Australasia from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Arthur Wilberforce Jose and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book APAIS 1991  Australian public affairs information service

Download or read book APAIS 1991 Australian public affairs information service written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by William Stewart Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties  Indiana

Download or read book History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties Indiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers and Records

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ontario Historical Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Papers and Records written by Ontario Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: