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Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture PortalIn 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...
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...
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...
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...
Mr Salchany, lighthouse keeper of Neptune Islands signals a passing ship, 1963. In Australia, lighthouses are built in harbours, on islands, coral reefs and beaches. Courtesy of the Australian Heritage Photo Library, Department of Environment, Water Her...
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...
Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788. In 1796, John Macarthur bought his first merino sheep from a ...
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Book - Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction - 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 Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Thomas Wilkinson: a Pioneer of Principles and Conviction Linda M Schulz, Barrack Heights, New South Wales, 1994...
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...
In 1838, The Governor of Van Diemens Land, Sir John and his wife, Lady Franklin visited and inspected the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and attended a service in the factory chapel. This same refractory spirit was illustrated by another occasion when...
Convict Women begins with the story of Maria Lord - convict 'whore', pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur, abandoned wife - whose life illustrates many of the central themes of convict women's history in Australia. Kay Daniels is the co-editor of...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Society of Women Writers (Australia), N.S.W. Branch, Sydney, 1980, pp. Women--New South Wales--History....
In the earliest years of Australian settlement, Elizabeth Harrington, a high-born and headstrong young woman (Jeune Pritchard) helps a group of convict women to escape constant rape by their jailers. Director Tom Cowan set out to make a 'workshopped film...
→ visit the National Film and Sound Archive website. This home movie footage, filmed mostly by Ernest Higgins, includes scenes of a family picnic at Mt Wellington, Christmas celebrations, children,Äôs birthday parties, picnics, holidays ... This is a...
Binding: HardbackEdition: 1st EditionPublisher: Melbourne Nelson 1976ISBN Number: 0170050866 / 9780170050869Seller ID: ID196931 Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. ...
On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the ... Tommy Dodds, an unemployed country boy in the city (George Wallace), gets a job as a stagehand in a M...
This cinema advertisement for Rinso soap powder from 1931 is a short drama about a woman, worn out by the drudge of washing day, who ... In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children ,Äì Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Sno...
Produced in 1955 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), Produced in 1958 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), Produced in 1963 by...
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