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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...

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...

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

Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia:nla.pic-an6065451. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and the wives of the marines. The majority of women convicts, and m...

Australian lighthouses - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

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...

The Macarthurs and the merino sheep - Australia's Culture Portal

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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Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture Portal   (website 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...

Disrupting the Boundaries: Resistance and Convict Women   (website Australian Humanities Review )

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...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Elizabeth Fry reading the bible to convict women at Newgate Prison, courtesy of the National Library of Australia&rdq   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

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 Linda M Schulz, Barrack Heights, New South Wales, 1994...

Convict Women   (website Allen and Unwin )

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...

Convict Women to NSW 1788-1828   (website Perth Dead Persons' Society )

On arrival, female convicts were sent directly to the Female Factory. Young convict girls were also employed in the Female Factory. A three-storey barracks and female factory was built in 1821 and was mainly used to house women who had committed local of...

Book Section - Parramatta's female orphan institution : Mary Collicott, the convict's well-born Wife - 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 Society of Women Writers (Australia), N.S.W. Branch, Sydney, 1980, pp. Women--New South Wales--History....

Australian Ripping Yarns: Cannibal convicts, macabre murders, wanton women and living legends. - Taylor, Peter   (website Adelaide Booksellers )

Author Name: Taylor, PeterTitle: Australian Ripping Yarns: Cannibal convicts, macabre murders, wanton women and living legends. Binding: Trade PaperbackPublisher: Melbourne Melbourne Five Mile Press 2004ISBN Number: 1865039381 / 9781865039381Seller ID: ID...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Women transported launch attended by 400 people”   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

:: ned online :: Documents ( http://nedonline.imagineering. )   (website(s) Ned Online    Public Record Office of Victoria (PRO) )

Ned Kelly handed the original copy to Edwin Living at Jerilderie. consequently he enticed McCormack's horse away from Greta. Mr Gould was up early feeding his horses heard a bell & saw McCormack's horse for he knew the horse well he sent his boy to take...

State Library of Queensland - What's new in family history resources   (website State Library of Queensland )

Australian state directories c1904 compendium (Wise) [CD-ROM]> This compendium includes: New South Wales Post Office Directory 1904, Queensland Post Office Directory 1903, South Australia Post Office Directory 1903, Tasmania Post Office Directory 1904, Vi...

Berry, Dame Alice Miriam (1900 - 1978) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

BERRY, Dame ALICE MIRIAM (1900-1978), Country Women's Association leader, was born on 28 April 1900 in Sydney, eldest daughter of Charles Roy McKenzie, a native-born mining engineer, and his wife Matilda, n. Queensland Countrywoman, 1947-53, 1960-65, 1970...

State Library of Queensland - What's new in family history resources   (website State Library of Queensland )

Australian state directories c1904 compendium (Wise) [CD-ROM]> This compendium includes: New South Wales Post Office Directory 1904, Queensland Post Office Directory 1903, South Australia Post Office Directory 1903, Tasmania Post Office Directory 1904, Vi...