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Australian architecture - Australia's Culture PortalInternationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
Unknown artist, Ben Hall, the bushranger, c. The exploits, capture and death of 'Brave' Ben Hall in the 1860s are part of Australian folklore, as well as marking a historical shift in the treatment of bushrangers. Hall's exploits and the apparent ineffi...
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...
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...
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Journal Article - Mrs Hutchinson and the Female Factories of Early 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 Mrs Hutchinson and the Female Factories of Early Australia © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
These gritty factory women endured 17th and early 18th century British poverty, left families behind, survived by the high seas, translocation to an unfamiliar place and often harsh penal system to become the farmers, business women, tradeswomen and 'moth...
The Australian Heritage Council found Cascades Female Factory place nationally significant for its association with the lives of convict women, its demonstration of the changing philosophies of punishment and reform relating to women, and as a place of gr...
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Over half the convict women sent to Australia were sent to Tasmania and the majority spent some time at the Cascades Female Factory as it was the main place for their reception and imprisonment. The majority of these spent some time at Cascades Female Fac...
The Cascades Female Factory is important as the only remaining female factory with visual fabric and ruins remaining. The Cascades Female Factory was included in the National Heritage List on 1 August 2007. The Cascades Female Factory Yard 4 North was in...
Labour and management in development, Vol 1 (2000) 1.1 The lived experience of female factory workers in rural West Java The lived experience of~á female factory workers in rural West Java...
>>>A John Watt Beattie reprint of an earlier photographer's view of the Female Factory, the prison for women transportees and other offenders at Cascades, Hobart, 1868. >>Courtesy of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery>Ref: Q5696 HCC1860/46>ITEM NAME: ph...
>>>Many of John Skinner Prout's watercolours and lithographs are held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This lithograph is dated 1844 of the Female Factory - the women's prison - at Cascades:>>Lithograph: TMAG Ref: AG1928>ITEM NAME: Print lithogra...
MCP POTTERY New South Wales circa 1930 Flat ovoid earthenware vase moulded with an art deco female feint impressed factory mark 23cm high. > Preview:>Wednesday 21 October 2009 9am - 8pm>Thursday 22 October 2009 9am - 5pm>Friday 23 October 2009 9am - 5pm>S...
The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
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