The Battle of Vinegar Hill 1804

The Battle of Vinegar Hill 1804

Author: Lynette Ramsay Silver

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9780949284617

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The Battle of Vinegar Hill is the story of botched mini-rebellions, failed escape attempts, mutiny, wild rumours, conspiracies, betrayals, and personal tragedy. In this book, the author reveals the lives of the key rebels and their enemies against a background of Irish politics in the colonial period.


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.


Death Or Liberty

Death Or Liberty

Author: Tony Moore

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011-05-23

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 145962100X

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Death or Liberty reveals how the British Government of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries banished to the end of the earth Australia political enemies viewed by authorities with the same alarm as today s terrorists : Jacobins, democrats and republicans; machine breakers, food rioters, trade unionists, and Chartists; Irish, Scots, Canadian and even American rebels. While criminals in the eyes of the law, many of these prisoners were heroes and martyrs to their own communities, and are still revered in their homelands as freedom fighters and patriots, progressive thinkers, democrats and reformers. Yet in Australia, the land of their exile, memory of these rebels and their causes has dimmed. This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all parts of the British Empire, spanning the early days of the penal settlement at Sydney Cove until transportation ended in 1868. Author Tony Moore asks who were these prisoners, and what led them to take the radical actions they did? Why did the authorities so fear these dissenters and rebels, and was transportation effective in halting dissent? What became of the political convicts in Australia and who escaped or returned home?


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.


Journal and Proceedings

Journal and Proceedings

Author: Royal Australian Historical Society

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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Includes the Society's Annual report and statement of accounts.


Unfinished Revolution

Unfinished Revolution

Author: Anne-Maree Whitaker

Publisher: Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780646179513

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"400 United Irishmen and fellow-rebels brought the spirit of Irish rebellion "down under" in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - and changed Australia forever. At Castle Hill in 1804, this "army of shadows" carried on where they left off but during Bligh's overthrow in 1808, they stood back from a fight that was not theirs. The "political Irish" played a central role in the developing colony. Their professions, trades and skills made them useful as clerks, storekeepers and teachers, and fitted them to be overseers and constables, and helped bring self-sufficiency to the still-fragile colonial economy. They remained revolutionaries; only they negotiated change rather than raised warlike rebellion. Through their open defiance and quiet manipulation of authority, the harp "new strung" resonates to this day in the Australian ethos that United Irishmen helped to create." -- book cover.


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.