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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

Ten Thousand Fathoms Deep

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

Eighteen fifty-one was the year in which Port Phillip was separated from New South Wales and became Victoria. It was also the year in which the great Victorian gold rushes started. Many historians, and even a greater number of non-historians, believe these two events occurred within weeks of each other simply by coincidence. However, the … Continue reading Ten Thousand Fathoms Deep

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  • 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
  • 1849 The Rush That Never Started: Forgotten origins of the 1851 gold rushes in Victoria
  • The Journal of Madame Callegari

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