Castle Hill Rebellion
Castle Hill Rebellion

Author: Chrissie Michaels

Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1743833377

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Do we count you in?’ When Joe is reluctantly dragged into a deadly plot by rebellious convicts at the Castle Hill prison farm on the outskirts of Sydney Town, he quickly realises it does not pay to be their enemy. He has been quietly working out his sentence as a shepherd boy, in the company of his friends, Pat and Kitt–who has set her eye on Joshua Holt, son of the heroic General of Wicklow. But the croppies are hard, tough patriots of Ireland and desperate to revolt and Joe finds himself amidst a desperate bid for freedom in the first convict uprising against the colony of New South Wales.

Picturing Australia
Picturing Australia

Author: National Library of Australia

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0642276668

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Highlights from the Library's Pictures Collection - the stories behind some of our most interesting paintings.

Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy
Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy

Author: Keith Robert Binney

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780646448657

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An economic and social history of early New South Wales, told through the life stories of pioneer 19th century horsemen. Traces the origin and development of the horse in Australia and a special tribute to Australia's internationally acclaimed thoroughbred expert C. Bruce Lowe.

Radical Sydney
Radical Sydney

Author: Terry Irving

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1742230938

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Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

Historical Reenactment
Historical Reenactment

Author: Iain McCalman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230277098

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Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.