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Eureka Stockade - Australia's Culture PortalImage courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the development of Australian democracy and Australian identity, with so...
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...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
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...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
Unknown, Portrait of the bushranger Ned Kelly, 1880, glass plate negative. More books, songs and websites have been written about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang than any other group of Australian historical figures. Unknown, Kate Kelly, sister of Ned Kelly...
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Eureka Stockade Film (more info)
The website for "The Eureka Stockade", a film by the Eureka Film Co planned for production in 2003. An epic story of action, adventure, romance and hope.
This site presents around ninety documents that trace not only the events of late December 1854, but also the lead-up to and the aftermath of the battle at Eureka. The documents have been organised into 9 'focuses', which concentrate on different aspect
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NMA Collections Search - Australian bicentennial commemorative medal depicting the Eureka Stockade (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )Description>A silver coloured metal commemorative medal depicting the Eureka Stockade. Text stating "Eureka Stockade" is inscribed on the top of the medal with the date "1854" is inscribed below the image. The back contains text stating "Australia 200 y...
>User keywords, or 'tags', are words added to object records by other users to enhance their discovery. Festive Decorations > Eureka flags>>+ 85/2503 Flag, 'Eureka', hand painted, Au... The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection re...
The Eureka Flag based on the constellation of the Southern Cross. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the d...
Deputation Police Constable Henry Goodenough, an undercover agent for the government, had infiltrated his way into the stockade under the pretence of being a fellow digger. That evening, paranoid that spies had infiltrated the Camp, both Commissioner Red...
On the back of this watercolour drawing is a note in pencil: "The artist was on the spot a few hours after the riot. The uniforms of the soldiers and the dress of the miners are correctly portrayed". > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The Universi...
Blainey, Geoffrey, The rush that never ended: a history of Australian mining, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1963. Molony, John, Eureka, Viking, Ringwood, 1984. 'National Heritage Values for the Eureka Stockade Gardens', in Department of the Envir...
> 'The site of the Eureka Stockade', by Huyghue. Samuel Douglas Smith (1815 - 1891), courtesy of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/objects/DEG000525.htm> Updated: 28 ...
John W. Thomas, Officer in Command at Eureka, courtesy of Sovereign Hill Gold Museum. Samuel Douglas Smith (1815 - 1891), courtesy of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. The Eureka Stockade, a rebellion of miners on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, has become a sy...
The events surrounding the Eureka Stockade happened at a site that is now known as Eureka Stockade Gardens. The site,Äôs national importance in Australia,Äôs cultural history ,Äì The Eureka Stockade has become a symbol of democratic protest and national ...
Electronic Encyclopaedia of Gold in Australia > The Eureka Stockade of December, 1854, courtesy of Sovereign Hill Gold Museum. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.net.au/objects/DEG000380.htm> Updated: 2...
> Administering the Oath, Eureka Stockade, 1854, c. 1854, by Sleap, F.A., courtesy of Sovereign Hill Gold Museum. Black and white newspaper clipping of ,ÄòAdministering the Oath, Eureka Stockade, 1854....
: a dictionary of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2000. Medal and Bar: Maharajpoor Star - Issued to Lieut. > Produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit, The University of Melbourne> http://www.egold.ne...
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