Download or read book Life on the Australian Goldfields written by Derrick I. Stone and published by Sydney : Methuen of Australia. This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Life on the Goldfields written by Kimberley Webber and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on the historical aspects of the Australian gold rushes - first discoveries to gold mining in Australia today; life on the goldfields, including family life, social life, law and order, and the everyday life of the digger; the impact on Australia of the gold rushes. 9 yrs.
Download or read book Life on the Goldfields written by Douglas Neil Bradby and published by Black Dog Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life actually like on the goldfields? People travelled from all over the world to seek their fortune on the Australian goldfields. But when they got to Australia, they found life was tough. The diggers lived in makeshift tents that didn t keep out the weather or thieves. The food was bad, clean water was scarce and every day was full of danger. How did these early emigrants make a life for themselves in this harsh new place? Focusing on the Victorian diggings, Life on the Goldfields shows how these improvised communities became town and cities.
Download or read book My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields written by William Craig (of Invercargill, N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on the Australian Goldfields written by Derrick Ian Stone and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social aspects of life on the goldfields, the daily life of the diggers. Photographs covering period between 1850s to 1930s.
Download or read book Everyday Life on the Goldfields written by Ann Parry and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings colonial history to life by presenting different perspectives on the people and places of the Australian gold rushes.
Download or read book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka written by Clare Wright and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called 'birth of Australian democracy'? Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery? Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat - women who made Eureka a story for us all. Clare Wright is an historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans, garnered both critical and popular acclaim and her second, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella Prize. She researched, wrote and presented the ABC TV documentary Utopia Girls and is the co-writer of the four-part series The War That Changed Us which screened on ABC1. 'Lively, incisive and timely, Clare Wright's account of the role of women in the Eureka Stockade is an engrossing read. Assembling a tapestry of voices that vividly illuminate the hardscrabble lives endured on Ballarat's muddy goldfields, this excellent book reveals a concealed facet of one of Australia's most famous incidences of colonial rebellion. For once, Peter Lalor isn't the hero: it's the women who are placed front and centre...The Forgotten Rebels links the actions of its heroines to the later fight for female suffrage, and will be of strong relevance to a contemporary female audience. Comprehensive and full of colour, this book will also be essential reading for devotees of Australian history.' Bookseller and Publisher 'This is a wonderful book. At last an Australian foundation story where women are not only found, but are found to have played a fundamental role.' Chris Masters 'Brilliantly researched and fun to read. An exhilarating new take on a story we thought we knew.' Brenda Niall 'Fascinating revelations. Beautifully told.' Peter FitzSimons ‘The best source on women at Eureka.’ Big Smoke
Download or read book Growing Up on the Goldfields written by Kimberley Webber and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains information on the historical aspects of the Australian gold rushes - first discoveries to gold mining in Australia today; life on the goldfields, including family life, social life, law and order, and the everyday life of the digger; the impact on Australia of the gold rushes. For middle-upper primary." --Seekbooks.
Download or read book A Lady s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852 53 written by Ellen Clacy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1853 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Miner s Right A Tale of the Australian Goldfields written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miner's Right, A Tale of the Australian Goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood is a first-person account of Boldrewood's experience as Goldfields Commissioner at Gulgong in the 1870s. Excerpt: "I AM in Australia at last--actually in Botany Bay, as we called the colony of New South Wales when Joe Bulder and I first thought of leaving that dear quiet old Dibblestowe Leys in Mid-Kent. More than that, I am a real gold digger--very real, indeed--and the holder of a Miner's Right, a wonderful document, printed and written on parchment, precisely as follows."
Download or read book Gold in Australia written by George Moore and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with the geological aspects of gold and its importance to ancient civilisations because of its unique properties. It continues in sequence, finally leading to the technological advances used to mine gold in a modern world which, while showing a great deal more concern for the environment, still values this most precious of metals.
Download or read book The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria written by R. Brough Smyth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Download or read book The Miner s Right written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Miner's Right, as 'A Tale of the Australian Goldfields', is the counterpart of Boldrewood's bushranging classic . Written out of the author's immediate experience as Goldfields Commissioner at Gulgong in the 1870s, it also casts back to the Chinese riots at Lambing Flat, to the robbery of the gold-escort at Eugowra, and to some aspects of the Eureka stockade. While these events are set in the romantic framework of the nineteenth-century novel, the democratic sentiment of the time is reflected to a greater degree than Boldrewood himself could have realised. The Miner's Right is both an example of the colonial romance, and an account 'from the life' of conditions on the Australian goldfields in a time of social and political change."--Goodreads.com
Download or read book Law and Order on the Goldfields written by Kimberley Webber and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on the historical aspects of the Australian gold rushes - first discoveries to gold mining in Australia today; life on the goldfields, including family life, social life, law and order, and the everyday life of the digger; the impact on Australia of the gold rushes. For middle-upper primary.
Download or read book The Australian Gold Rushes written by Kimberley Webber and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Fever written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1994 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Fever! tells the experiences of the men and women who flocked to the Australian goldfields in the early 1850s. The publication deals with the earliest phase of the Australian gold-rushes, beginning with Edward Hammond Hargraves’ discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. By 1855, at the end of the period treated in Gold Fever!, the eastern Australian colonies had been transformed by the search for gold.
Download or read book Sludge written by Peter Davies and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush. Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. Sludge is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria’s mining history – the way it transformed the state’s water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. ‘Sludge is a fascinating, entangled story of human endeavour and environmental destruction. An exciting and timely reminder that history is a dirty business, precisely because it oozes its way into the present.’ —Clare Wright ‘Sludge, slurry, slickens or porridge: call it what you will, mining waste made a mess of Victoria’s environment. In Sludge, Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies carefully investigate this murky history of greed, mismanagement, reform and forgetting. It is a gripping account of an environmental catastrophe, and it vividly conveys the long-term costs of short-term gains.’—Billy Griffiths ‘This is the book about the goldfields I most wanted to read but didn’t think could be written. It’s a remarkable achievement.’—Tom Griffiths ‘If Victorians dreamed of glittering gold, what they got was a tidal wave of sludge that covered the land like a poisonous blanket and made the rivers run thick as gruel. Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies vividly recreate the forgotten landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, revealing how people and mining destroyed the country that nurtured them, and how that silent legacy is still with us today. Here is a powerful parable, a work of brilliant rediscovery and a wakeup call for our own times.’ —Grace Karskens
