Ten Delightful Tales: Lake Wendouree - 'Pleasing to the Eye, Satisfying to the Soul' by Doug Bradby
$9.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Mining Mud and Medals by Di Campbell (Research by); Damien Finlayson; Simon Jacks; Janice Newton; Clare Gervasoni (Index by); Yvon Davis ((various roles)); Michael Taffe 10th
$33.00 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Members of the Australian Mining Corps were commonly known as 'tunnellers'. They worked continuously in wet and muddy conditions, under constant enemy threat in often narrow tunnels, under no man's land.The Ballarat Electorate has enjoyed a long history connected with mining and many men with mining exp ...Show more
Goldfields of Victoria: From Macedon to Ballarat, Bendigo and Beyond by Kornelia Freeman
$39.95 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Enormous gold mines, original miners' huts of the 1850s, heritage gardens, unique wineries, wildlife parks, museums, art galleries and markets all showcase the charm and diversity on offer in the Goldfields region. A large section of central Victoria including Macedon, Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Da ...Show more
Eureka by John Molony
$34.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
"Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. Some diggers had guns, but many were unarmed; some twenty of them were killed, along with four troopers. In the decades that followed, the truth of what ha ...Show more
Eureka by Dorothy Wickham
$16.50 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
The Eureka Lead was one of the richest goldfield in the world and the site of "Eureka", a civil battle between the population of the Ballarat East Diggings and Victorian government forces on 3 December 1854. This book gives an overview of Eureka, the agitation leading to the uprising, Ballarat Reform Le ...Show more
My Country All Gone the White Men Have Stolen It - The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870 by Fred Cahir
$59.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
The Wadawurrung are the Aboriginal people whose land includes the cities now known as Ballarat and Geelong. This book is a history about relations between the Wadawurrung and the ngamadjidj (generally translated as white stranger belonging to the sea) in the period 1800 -1870. The history of inter-racia ...Show more
The Eureka Stockade: 1854 by Gregory Blake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The Eureka Stockade is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent go ...Show more
HISTORY OF BALLARAT AND SOME BALLARAT RE by WILLIAM WITHERS
$66.00 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
The Eureka Stockade (3rd Ed) by CARBONI RAFFAELLO
$20.00 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
A new edition of Rafaello Carboni's famous eyewitness account of the conflict at Eureka in 1854, now set in the context of modern Republican debate by Thomas Keneally's new introduction. It remains a vivid and vigorous narrative and the most detailed contemporary version of the events surrounding the Eu ...Show more
The Astonishing History of Ballarat 1851-1855 Volume 1 by Doug Bradby; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
In 1851, Ballarat was a tranquil and beautiful valley. By 1855, it had become the thriving centre of the world's largest alluvial goldfield. But how did such a feat occur when at the beginning, diggers had little or no knowledge of where to look for gold or how to extract it from the gravel and quartz?F ...Show more
Goldfields and the Gothic (PB) by David Waldron
$39.95 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Generations of Australians have grown up with the legend of Eureka and the familiar images of the gold rush in central Victoria. However, underneath these commonly known stories lies a stranger and darker past. As well as colonists, pioneers, soldiers and rebel miners, the colonial goldfields were home ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Ballarat History
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more