Engendering public debate on Federation
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Becoming Australians : the movement towards federation in Ballarat and the nation Chapter p. 42-49
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- Description: B1
Tracks to trails : A history of Mt Evelyn
- Authors: Newton, Janice , Herlihy, Paula , Phillips, Karen
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003002489
The Geoffrey Blainey Mining Collection
- Type: Text , Collection
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- Description: The 2002 Professor Blainey donated a collection of his own academic research material to the University of Ballarat. Included in this collection are historical books, papers and other material related to the early history of mining and the central Victorian Goldfields. A second generous donation of material was received in 2005, Some rare, older items in the collection are considered fragile and require special handling. Titles from the Geoffrey Blainey Mining Collection can be searched online via the UB Library catalogue.
Surveying the landscape five years on : An examination of how teachers, and the teaching of Australia's shared-history, is constructed within Australian academic literature
- Authors: Weuffen, Sara
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teaching and Teacher Education Vol. 78, no. (2019), p. 117-124
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- Description: The purpose of this paper is to conduct a literature review of academic debates relating to the Australian Curriculum: History (ACH), in particular subjective constructions of teachers, and the teaching of Australian History and Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islanders’ histories. The literature reviewed from a socio-political lens, examines functions of power/knowledge operating in discourses of education to illuminate how teachers, Aboriginal peoples, and Torres Strait Islanders, take up and/or resist subjectivities constructing them. Drawing from the toolbox of post-structuralism, this literature review troubles the notion of the non-Indigenous perspective as dominant, and the teacher as an active, non-critical participant in the process.
Links in the chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia
- Authors: Coventry, C. J.
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Before/Now : Journal of the collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019), p. 27-56
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- Description: Beneficiaries of British slavery were present in colonial Victoria and provincial South Australia, a link overlooked by successive generations of historians. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, hosted by University College, London, reveals many people in these colonies as having been connected to slave money awarded as compensation by the Imperial Parliament in the 1830s. This article sets out the beneficiaries to demonstrate the scope of exposure of the colonies to slavery. The list includes governors, jurists, politicians, clergy, writers, graziers and financiers, as well as various instrumental founders of South Australia. While Victoria is likely to have received more of this capital than South Australia, the historical significance of compensation is greater for the latter because capital from beneficiaries of slavery, particularly George Fife Angas and Raikes Currie, ensured its creation. Evidence of beneficiaries of slavery surrounds us in the present in various public honours and notable buildings.
Not invisible, not silent, not nameless : Dja Dja Wurrung contributions to nineteenth-century Goldfields Society in central Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Carter, Rodney , Kerr, Jason , Burchill, Marlene , Kerr, Ron , Baksh, Tom , Nelson, Rick , Tout, Dan
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Cultural and Social History Vol. 20, no. 4 (2023), p. 517-535
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- Description: This article seeks to contribute to the emerging literature highlighting Indigenous peoples’ significant involvement in and contributions to goldfields society, in Australia and internationally. It does so by way of conversations with Dja Dja Wurrung voices and a careful examination and interpretation of written colonial records relating to the Dja Dja Wurrung, the Aboriginal people whose Country encompasses what is now called central Victoria in Australia. Further, the article aims to demonstrate that Dja Dja Wurrung participation in and contributions to the gold rushes themselves were not without impact on the colonial society in which they occurred. © 2022 The Social History Society.