Eureka Stockade Resources
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A State Library Of Victoria online resource featuring a chronology of the Eureka Stockade; The Eureka Stockade as told by the participants and The Charles Doudiet sketches of the Eureka Stockade.
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Online resource with numerous written publications about the Eureka Stockade plus a host of newspaper articles from the time relating to key events of the rebellion.
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TROVE Newspaper Search is an excellent resource for all Australian History topics. You can choose a date range or particular newspapers.
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YouTube ClipEureka: A defence of Liberty. A documentary about the eureka stockade produced by Peter Washington, including an interview with ProfessorJohn Malony.
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For the first time Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) present 90 of the primary key records from the 1850s relating to the Eureka events into an online interactive exhibit.
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An SBS production: Gold - Law and Democracy. Has sections on the Police force, the miners unrest, Gold Licences, The Eureka Stockade and it's ongoing impact.
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State Library of Victoria / ERGO: Impact on Society of the Eureka Stockade
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YouTube ClipAustralia On Trial (2011) - The Eureka 13.
This case was the combined trials in 1855 of the Eureka Stockade rebels. In the aftermath of the Eureka rebellion, the attorney general of Victoria, William Stawell, was determined to hang the rebels for treason. What happened next changed Australia for ever. |
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Riot or Rebellion? This eBook and teaching resource has some useful information about the causes, main events and impact of the Eureka Stockade. It was produced to support the 2005 documentary of the same name.
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YouTube ClipEureka Stockade: Riot or Rebellion - The opening sequence.
A docu-drama film about the Eureka Stockade, 1854. It was commissioned by ABC-TV (Australia) and screened on ABC1. |
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The Eureka Diggers March: A document which shows points of interest and stopping notes along the route taken by the diggers from the Bakery Hill meeting site to the Eureka stockade site. A map showing the points of interest is also shown
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Blood On The Southern Cross. A DVD version of the Sound And Light Show at Sovereign Hill. This tells the story of the Eureka Stockade. There is also a book which accompanies the DVD.
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Available for short term loan from the BHS LIbrary
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Eureka Flag is an episode from the series Australia’s Heritage – National Treasures with Chris Taylor, produced in 2009.
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Eureka Stockade by Marion Little John. A great resources, explaining the events leading up to the Eureka Stockade, the characters involved and what happened after.
The Eureka Stockade, Big Trouble on the Diggings by Geoff Hocking; Whole book is useful Eureka Rebellion by Barrie Sheppard, whole book; covers events leading up to the event; the event itself and the importance to our Nation after the event. The seriously Weird History of the Goldfields by Doug Bradby: Chapter 11 Unity and Disunity on the goldfields and Chapters 15 and 16 - Eureka and achievements of the goldminers The Goldrushes (A cut out activity book) by Olga Fox. Page 6, The Eureka Stockade Discovering Gold by Olga Fox, pages 47-53; Law and Order on the Goldfields The night we made the flag. A Eureka Story by Carole Wilkinson; a children's story The Goldrushes by John Barwick, Pages 24 - 26. Eureka Stockade and 150 years on. Law and Order on the Goldfields by Kimberley Webber, pages 16 - 25, The licence system and The Eureka Rebellion The Gold Seekers by Stephen Gard, pages 31 - 46; Law makers; The Eureka Stockade; After the Rush and what did we inherit from the gold diggers? The Goldrushes - Striving for Wealth by Barrie Sheppard, pages 14 - 17, Paying to dig and The Eureka Rebellion Gold in Australia by Bruce McLish, pages 32 - 33, The Eureka Uprising Goldrushes by Jordan Thomas, pages 15 - 18, Law and disorder plus The Uprising. Australia's Gold Rushes by Robert Coupe, pages 51 - 56, The Eureka Stockade. Wealth Beneath the Soil by Frances Hale, Chapter 4, Agitation on the Goldfields The Australian Gold Rushes by BJ Price, Chapter 5, Gold Fields Administration and the Licence Issue Goldrush by John Barwick, pages 14 - 18, Rebellion at Eureka How Gold Changed Australia by Melanie Guile, pages 14 - 18, Changing the Law Gold by John Nickleson, pages 14,15, Eureka |
These books are all available for short term loan from BHS library. (either for a lesson or overnight if end of the day or you could photocopy a couple of relevant pages)
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