Download or read book Family History Fossicking in the John Oxley Library written by Shauna Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining the Landscape written by Geraldine Mate and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining was one of the primary elements of colonial enterprise in Australia and a factor in movement on colonial frontiers. In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, mining—particularly of gold—saw transformations of the land itself, as well as in the way that people working in mining engaged with the landscape around them. Landscape archaeology provides a theoretical perspective that allows an articulation of how people created and understood the place in which they lived and worked. The impact of and narrative surrounding gold mining has meant that it has long been a focus of study, both historical and archaeological. The archaeology of mining has traditionally fallen under the umbrella of industrial archaeology, with analyses based on historical, economic and technological evidence. However this is changing. From an industrial focus, examining the remnants of mines and associated processing equipment, archaeology has progressed towards understandings of the social aspects of mining, recognising that people, not just equipment, occupied these landscapes. Nevertheless, there remains a separation between industrial/technology-based studies and purely social/ household-based archaeological studies—a division that overlooks the integration of home and livelihood. This work addresses these very challenges, using a landscape-based approach that articulates a nuanced, meaning-ladened and experienced mining landscape. Integrating the social and the industrial, the case study of Mount Shamrock, a gold-mining town in Queensland, Australia, demonstrates how this methodology can enhance our understanding of the past. The work presents an integration of social and industrial perspectives in a mining settlement, and provides an exemplar in the application of landscape theory to Australian historical archaeology. These concepts and approaches, developed in an Australian context, are of universal interest.

Download or read book Where History Happened written by Peter Spearritt and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where History Happened' reveals the hidden past of some of Australia's most intriguing towns and places, from mining settlements and whaling stations to monuments and historic houses in our capital cities. The stories that emerge, of remote religious communities, isolated penal colonies, places of Indigenous incarceration and environmental degradation and rejuvenation, describe a vast and complex country, with a heritage worth preserving. Part social, architectural, military, political and industrial history, part road trip travel companion, this book has something for every reader.

Download or read book Aboriginal History written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Barmaids written by Diane Kirkby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book is a mixture of cultural and labour history which traces the role of barmaids and Australian drinking culture.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Queensland History written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Queensland Source Book written by Perry McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history sources in Queensland.

Download or read book A Documentary History of Queensland written by W. Ross Johnston and published by St. Lucia ; New York : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief history of Aborigines in Queensland.

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Download or read book Guide to the Archives of Science in Australia written by Gavan McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gasa will prove invaluable to researchers & A key information resource in this increasingly important field."--GAVIN MCCARTHY, SENIOR ARCHIVIST WITH THE AUSTRALIA SCIENCE ARCHIVES PROJECT. This guide is the first publication derived from the data held in the Register of the Archives of Science in Australia. It locates & describes records of technological & medical research created by individuals who have worked in Australia, from the earliest explorers & navigators, through the natural historians of the nineteenth century, to the physicists, chemists & biologists of the early 20th century & the computer developers of the 1980s.

Download or read book The Call of the Land written by W. Ross Johnston and published by Milton, Qld. : Jacaranda Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th century colonisation/relations with Aborigines including violent resistance and massacres, Aboriginal - Chinese relations; Aboriginal legislation, government policy and reserves (housing conditions); Aboriginal human rights in the current political climate and protest.

Download or read book Timber and Iron written by Peter Bell and published by St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press ; Lawrence, Mass. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Technical Impex Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines all houses in the North Queensland region in the period 1861-1920. The study begins with a brief description of the region and investigates whether any climatic or environmental factors were influential in the design of the buildings. It then describes the mining settlements and the social and economic conditions that constituted the background to house construction. A chapter is devoted to a critical examination of the origins of one construction technique - the sawn timber stud-framed wall - which dominated all building construction in North Queensland in the period. The remainder of the book examines the houses themselves; their forms, the materials and construction techniques, items of detail, and the effect of subsequent modifications.

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Download or read book You Can t Make It Rain written by Margaret Kowald and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Australian Pastoral Company is one of Australia’s largest and oldest private cattle companies. It began in the 1877 rush to take up land in the Northern Territory. A vast area of the Barkly Tableland was leased by a partnership of five men: Queenslanders William Collins, William Forrest and Sir Thomas McIlwraith, and Englishmen Sir William Ingram and John Warner. Today, the family-based company which evolved from the partnership still holds the greater part of that original land as Alexandria Station – the biggest cattle station in the Northern Territory. Descendent of three original partners still hold shares in the NAP company. The title – You Can’t Make it Rain – derives form a poignant comment of Phillip Forrest, managing director and chairman of NAP, shortly before he resignation in 1936. Forrest wrote. ‘I have done my best over a long trying period, but I cannot make it rain.’ The comment is a telling reminder of the over-riding importance of water for pastoralists, and of the often grim struggle for survival in that industry. You Can’t Make It Rain is the story of one notable survivor.

Download or read book APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.