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
Daisy Hill
The Sink of Iniquity
Education in The Sink of Iniquity A history of education in the Amherst and Talbot districts between 1836 and 1862. "This is an impressive piece of historical research. The author has taken a discrete area of early Victoria very directly affected by the gold rushes and has examined the history of schooling in that … Continue reading The Sink of Iniquity
The Cossticks 1700-1900
NOTICE: A 3rd edition of The Cossticks iscurrently being researched and written and was originally intended to be available early in 2024. However, the additional material has already pushed the size of the book to nearly 700 pages, almost twice the length of the the first edition, and looks as though there will be many … Continue reading The Cossticks 1700-1900
Historia Incognita 