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From The Edges of Empire

19/11/201510/09/2016 / Historia Incognita / Leave a comment

From the Edges of Empire: Convict Women from Beyond the British Isles. Edited by Lucy Frost and Colette McAlpine. This book tells the remarkable stories of women transported to Australia from the British Isles.  These stirring accounts remind us that the colonies were, from their beginning, populated by people from many cultures, and encourage us to envision … Continue reading From The Edges of Empire

Duchene / Hargraves

11/09/201520/09/2017 / Historia Incognita / 2 Comments

ALEXANDRE JULIEN DUCHENE was not even four years into a fourteen year sentence in Van Diemen’s Land in 1840 when Major D’Arcy Wentworth, the Police Magistrate at Launceston, described him as ‘a man of most exemplary conduct’. Edward Hammond Hargraves, was less than two years into enjoying his claim to have started the Australian gold … Continue reading Duchene / Hargraves

Exodus and Panic

12/07/201511/09/2016 / Historia Incognita / Leave a comment

Exodus and Panic: Melbourne's reaction to the Bathurst gold discoveries of May 1851 This article was shortlisted for the "Best Peer Reviewed History Article" in the 2015 Victorian Community History Awards. Originally published as: Douglas Wilkie, 'Exodus and Panic: Melbourne's reaction to the Bathurst gold discoveries of May 1851', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 85, no. … Continue reading Exodus and Panic

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  • Farquhar McCrae & The Burning of Troy:
  • Ballarat’s Betsy Buckley: “victim of circumstance” or “habitual criminal”?
  • Parramatta Female Factory Biographies
  • Earth, Wind, Fire, Water – Gold!
  • Frankenstein, Convicts, and Wide-Awake Geniuses: The Life and Death of Charles Brentani
  • The Convict Ship Hashemy at Port Phillip: a case study in historical error
  • From The Edges of Empire
  • Duchene / Hargraves
  • Exodus and Panic
  • Ten Thousand Fathoms Deep
  • Eugene Rossiet Lennon: Professeur Extraordinaire
  • The Memory of Dreams
  • From Venus to Venice
  • The Deconstruction of a Convict Past
  • The Sink of Iniquity
  • The Cossticks 1700-1900
  • The Hamiltons 1762-1862 (Third Edition 2022)
  • 1849 The Rush That Never Started: Forgotten origins of the 1851 gold rushes in Victoria
  • The Journal of Madame Callegari

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