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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The News As It Happened - An historic event in Sydney, NSW, when in November 1864 the prisoners attempted to break out…
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A wonderful set of historic illustrations from 1855 of early Victoria (Australia)…
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The year was 1867, the year that the greatest floods of record hit New South Wales. From April reports started to filter…
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John Caesar was a powerfully built West Indian negro, who had come to the colony in the first fleet, on March 14,…
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A Contemporary Account and Illustration of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Freemason's Almshouses - 17 July 1867…
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Historical Illustration of Samuel Ramsden's Paper Mill on the Yarra Bank Melbourne in 1868 and a contemporary account of the beginnings of…
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Story of an early colonialist's misfortune in a Sydney Inn in the 1820/30s, and the barmaid who saved him.…
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The story of Ann Rumsby - All through a convict girl - A leading Navy doctor was censured. Rev. Samuel Marsden was…
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Visit the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum in 1853, read about the conditions in the asylum and meet some of the patients.…
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