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Women in colonial times - Australia's Culture Portal

In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...

Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...

Australian female filmmakers - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...

The Australian Gold Rush - Australia's Culture Portal

The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...

Mateship, diggers and wartime - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...

Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...

Women in action - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Australian War Memorial: VIC1426. The involvement of Australian women as nurses in war began in 1898 with the formation of the Australian Nursing Service of New South Wales, from which sixty nurses served in The Boer War. According to th...

Women and air defence - Australia's Culture Portal

Women's involvement in air defence forces in a flying capacity was highly limited until the 1970s. For decades, women's roles in air defence were restricted to jobs on the ground and within Australia. Australian women's involvement in air defence servic...

Women in wartime - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...

European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...

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18th Century Historical Trekking,1680-1760 (Australia).: 18th Century Colonial Womens Clothing.   (website 18th Century Historical Trekking, 1700-1760 )

18th Century Historical Trekking,1680-1760 (Australia). Historical trekking, living history, experimental archaeology, period living skills, primitive wilderness survival skills and much more. 18th Century Colonial Womens Clothing....

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18th Century Historical Trekking,1680-1760 (Australia). Historical trekking, living history, experimental archaeology, period living skills, primitive wilderness survival skills and much more. 18th Century Colonial Womens Clothing....

Collectors Episodes Video   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Collectors - 10/07/2009: Colonial Women   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Gordon looks beyond the faÁade of our colonial sandstone buildings at one of Australiaís finest private collections of colonial womenís memorabilia. Small pistols, revolvers and knives were often discreetly hidden by women in their clothing - Gordon reve...

,ÄúDisappearing Memory,Äù and the Colonial Present in Recent Indigenous Women,Äôs Writing | Ferrier | Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Special Issue: The Colonial Present Home > Special Issue: The Colonial Present > Ferrier ,ÄúDisappearing Memory,Äù and the Colonial Present in Recent Indigenous Women,Äôs Writing...

Edited Book - Families in Colonial Australia - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Grimshaw, Patricia, Chris McConville, Ellen McEwen &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

Journal Article - A Public Space for Women: The Case of Charity in Colonial Melbourne - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne A Public Space for Women: The Case of Charity in Colonial Melbourne &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

Thesis - The Bands and Orchestras of Colonial Brisbane - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne The Bands and Orchestras of Colonial Brisbane &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...