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Australian architecture - Australia's Culture PortalInternationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
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...
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...
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...
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Female Factory Historic Site at WotToDo.com.au (website WotToDo.com.au )You are here : Home » TAS » Hobart » Historical Attractions » Female Factory Historic Site ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA > Select your region... Copyright © 2008 e-CBD Pty Ltd. Web Design by e-CBD » Privacy Policy » Terms of Use and Di...
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Over half the convict women sent to Australia were sent to Tasmania and the majority spent some time at the Cascades Female Factory as it was the main place for their reception and imprisonment. The majority of these spent some time at Cascades Female Fac...
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Female factories were a unique Australian response to the management of convict women, and one that reflects 19th century moral and penal philosophies. The Cascades Female Factory is important as the only remaining female factory with visual fabric and r...
>>>Many of John Skinner Prout's watercolours and lithographs are held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. >>>>>>>Portrait: Title: John Skinner Prout>Creator(s): Allport, Morton, 1830-1878 >>Date: 1850 >Description: 1 photograph : sepia toning ; oval...
>>Courtesy of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery>Ref: Q5696 HCC1860/46>ITEM NAME: photograph: >MEDIUM: Black and White Photograph, >TITLE: 'Cascades : Female Factory. gsc-trailing-more-results, #uds-searchControl . gs-title a:visited, #uds-searchContro...
Parramatta Female Factory was the destination of all unassigned convict women and the principal female penitentiary in the colony of New South Wales. Parramatta Female Factory was proclaimed an Asylum for Lunatic and Invalid Convicts in March 1848 and ga...
Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Association is a non-profit organisation, established in New South Wales in 2006 to raise awareness about the history and heritage of the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct. The Female Factory site is a place of national...
Parramatta Female Factory Precinct is one of the most significant birthplaces of European Australian history particularly for women and Australians who as children experienced institutional care. Counted among its institutions are the Female Factory (182...
We recommend NSW State Library Convict Records, including links to UK trial & Court records and the State Records NSW Archives in Brief as a starting point in searching for information about convict women at the Parramatta Female Factory. Cascades Female ...
The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
Author Nick ENRIGHT > Synopsis A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. Format Full length Style Drama Subject Family/Women Cast size 13 (females 9 males 4)>Variable cast 10-15. ...
"The rain," remarked Philip Mazere Senior, master of the property known as Three Rivers, complacently on Saturday evening, "is just in the nick of time to save the harvest and top up the stock for the autumn." But on Monday morning his old friend Brennan,...
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