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Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalIn 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...
Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...
The Sydney Gazette, first published by ex-convict George Howe in 1803. George Howe was also permitted to print Australia's first newspaper from a humble shed located at the rear of Government House. The Sydney Gazette was the only newspaper circulated i...
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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Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation 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...
Yvonne Cramer (ed) This Beauteous, Wicked Place: Letters and Journals of John Grant, Gentleman Convict National Library of Australia $31.30(incl. GST)pb, 224pp 0 642 10702 5 The World Upside Down: Australia 1788-1830 National Library of Australia $20.95 ...
Australia Day 26 January 2006 Flag Multimedia >Want to help protect the flag? National Flag Day û a time of celebration, of recalling our history, of reaffirming and proclaiming our unique national identity as the great southern continent. I commend Natio...
4 Suggested pre- visit classroom activities4 Pre- visit resource material - Background information5 - Profiles12 Post- visit activities22 Bibliography23Evaluation of Old Government House visit24 The Costume of the Australasians. - 3 - WHISPERS TALES AND ...
Copyright 2006ñ National Trust of Australia (NSW) 2 of 19 Table of Contents WHAT IS THE PROGRAM ABOUT? Copyright 2006ñ National Trust of Australia (NSW) 3 of 19 WHAT IS THE PROGRAM ABOUT? School Lesson (Approximately 30 min) The school lesson is presente...
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JAS Review of BooksOnline Issue 44, July 2006© Australian Public Intellectual Network 2008http://www.api-network.com/scgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=0521803438John Gascoigne, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia, Cambridge, Cambridge Uni...
Firstly, terminology: Like all terms which develop over time through common usage rather than academic definition, the term 'mining wife' has conventionally been used by wives themselves, to describe women married to staff or professional mining men. All...
By John Gascoigne, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 272 pages, 8 halftones, hardback, $69.95. 'Review: The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne' [online]. Network Review of Books (Perth, Australian Public Int...
á The winning five designs which were generally identical were adopted as the basis of Australia's national flag. á I see the Australian National Flag as a principal and enduring symbol of our nation during more than a century of stable democracy. á Th...
The winning five designs which were generally identical were adopted as the basis of Australia’s national flag. I see the Australian National Flag as a principal and enduring symbol of our nation during more than a century of stable democracy. The ...
6 Definition of Family History6 Activity 1: Getting started on the family tree ................................................................... © 2007State Library of Queensland, Family History: December 2007 9 Guidance Research Tips for Queensland N...
The National Archives of Scotland (NAS), located in Edinburgh, is the Scottish repository for all official records relating to Scotland, including a variety of important public documents. NAS holds records relating to crimes and criminals in Scotland, in...
John Grant [b.1776] gentleman and convict was transported to New South Wales in 1803. Yvonne Cramer introduces this valuable chronicle of early Australian society, providing pertinent historical background to the people and events portrayed. A move to M...
The exhibition, initiated by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, in partnership with the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales, pieces together the remarkable story of a man torn between life as an artist and lif...
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