Humanities and social sciences / Year 4 / Knowledge and Understanding / History

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At Victoria's Sovereign Hill outdoor museum, visitors are taken back in time to the time of a famous gold rush. It's critical that the museum accurately represents that period's technology, architecture, clothing, food and lifestyle. Join Senior Historian Jan Croggon as she describes her work at Sovereign Hill and shares ...

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Governor Arthur Phillip was the first governor of New South Wales. His treatment of the indigenous Aboriginal people was initially friendly as he made efforts to get to know the Sydney Eora Aboriginal people. These early gestures though, were undermined by the displacement of Aboriginal people further inland to make room ...

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How do historians determine whether information about the early years of colonial life in Australia is reliable? Many official and personal documents have survived to tell us about this period in Australia's history. Listen to a diary account about a surgeon (doctor) visiting sick convict labourers in chains. This clip ...

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This is website about the significant contribution Aboriginal people made in colonial times by guiding European explorers and colonists, stock and goods across the Victorian river systems. The resource includes introductory information and 31 Story Objects in the format of videos, audio, images and text. Each object also ...

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This collection of 5 activities explores life on the NSW and Victorian goldfields in the 1850's. Using primary sources from the State Library of NSW's collection (diaries, artwork and a satirical cartoon), students investigate the everyday activities of the gold sush. Read an eyewitness account of the first gold escort ...

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These are folding leather convict caps made in Britain and worn in Australia between 1820 and 1865. They feature high creased crowns and semicircular folding sides, which could be tied up above the crown or let down to form a brim. All are hand sewn and have leather lining and a leather-bound brim.

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This is a first edition of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, published on 5 March 1803 by the Government Printer, Sydney. It is a black-and-white printed, folded newspaper. It contains general orders from the governor, notice of sales and advertising, news of ship movements, reports of a fire and notice ...

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This app is for iphone. Take a multimedia tour through the streets of Parramatta (New South Wales, Australia), 200 years ago and experience Australia's colonial heritage. Join Governor Lachlan Macquarie and experience his vision through the eyes and voices of the soldiers, scoundrels, convicts, clergy and free settlers ...

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How do the lives of Ned Kelly and Redmond Barry reflect the contrasting experiences of those who came to Australia as convicts and free settlers? Kelly was the son of an Irish convict and claimed to be fighting against the injustices of the old world revisited in the new. Barry had arrived in Melbourne as a free Irish immigrant. ...

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Noongar Whadjuk [pronounced wod-JUK] Elder and ambassador Dr Noel Nannup speaks about the "tall ships" arriving in 1829 to establish the Swan River Colony, the cultural misunderstandings and resistance that occurred and the effects of colonisation on the traditional Aboriginal ways of life.