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Australia's Culture Portal - Stories - Convict women in Port JacksonIn 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...
The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...
In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
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...
Mr Salchany, lighthouse keeper of Neptune Islands signals a passing ship, 1963. In Australia, lighthouses are built in harbours, on islands, coral reefs and beaches. Courtesy of the Australian Heritage Photo Library, Department of Environment, Water Her...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...
Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788. In 1796, John Macarthur bought his first merino sheep from a ...
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Australia's Culture Portal - Stories - Convict women in Port Jackson (website Culture and Recreation Portal )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...
In 1838, The Governor of Van Diemens Land, Sir John and his wife, Lady Franklin visited and inspected the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and attended a service in the factory chapel. This same refractory spirit was illustrated by another occasion when...
Convict Women begins with the story of Maria Lord - convict 'whore', pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur, abandoned wife - whose life illustrates many of the central themes of convict women's history in Australia. Kay Daniels is the co-editor of...
Title: Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia Author: John Lang * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright...
Title: A Voyage to Botany Bay Author: George Barrington * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Chapter 1 Am ordered for embarkation--Proceed down the river--An accident alongside the ship--The ship proceeds to the Mother Bank--Join several t...
Title: Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales Author: John White (1757/8-1832) * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. SYDNEY COVE, Port Jackson, New South Wales, November 18th, 1788. Among those Gentlemen he has the honour, particularly, to ...
Captain Maconochie's "Bounty For Crime" Secret Society of the Ring I. The Convening of the Ring II. The Falling of the Doom In The Granary Parson Ford's Confessional The Heart-Breaking of Anstey's Bess The Amour of Constable Crake The Pegging-Out of Over...
Mary Tomsic - Women's memories of cinema going: More than 'the only thing left to do' in Victoria's Western District Paula Byrne - Convict women reconsidered... Landon Carter 's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation....
The Biennial Kay Daniels Award was established by the AHA in 2003 in honour of the historian and public servant, Kay Daniels, who died in 2001. And in 1998, she published Convict Women, on the experiences of convict women in Tasmania. At the University ...
[Obituary reproduced with permission, Australian Historical Studies (April 2002).] Dr Kay Daniels, historian and public servant, died in Canberra on Tuesday 17 July 2001, shortly after her sixtieth birthday and less than five weeks after being diagnosed w...
Title: Botany Bay, True Tales of Early Australia Author: John Lang * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright...
Title: Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788) Author: George B. Worgan (1757-1838) * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Sirius, Sydney Cove, Port Jackson--June 12th 1788. Botany Bay, Port Jackson, and another Inlet (8 Miles to the Northwa...
Project Gutenberg Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. Shall Capricornus bind a poore man the world ouer, no part, no Land undiscouered, where hee may shake...
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