The Gipps Land Hospital to provide relief for "indigent" strangers who frequently came into Gipps Land in search of employment. The…
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Sitting by the Fire by Henry Kendall published in 'The Poems of Henry Kendall' (1920)…
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The first school in Melbourne was officially opened in January 1838 by Mr J. A. Clarke (Head-master) and Mr. W. M. Abbot…
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Copy of a letter from Sapper O. G. Pettit, 6th Co., Field Engineers, Boulogne, 10 December 1919. WWI.…
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Flashback to 1867 and read about the internal arrangements and discipline of the Pentridge Stockade, in which the convicts were subjected to…
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The first wings of Darlinghurst Prison were constructed in 1840. On 7th July 1841 the first prisoners were transferred from the…
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Gold was first discovered Nashville in October 1867, now known as Gympie.…
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An account of a trip taken to Launceston in 1869.…
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The first 16 years of the running of the Asylum for Destitute Children in Randwick NSW, from its inception in 1852.…
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It was in the year 1861 that the events known in the history of New South Wales as the Lambing Flat Riots…
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Six letters by Signaller/Sergeant W. H. Pethard, 7th Battalion, written between 1915 and 1917…
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Recipes from Tasmania from 1828. Includes recipes for sweetening tainted meat, preserving fruit, how to make English coffee or breakfast powder, a…
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A Camp-Fire Yarn by Henry Lawson published in 'While the Billy Boils' (1896)…
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