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Misfortune Or Fraud?
How the 1840s Depression impacted on a country district. Includes background about the settlement and development of the district. Discussion of factors leading to the depression in New South Wales and some attempts to continue in business through difficult times. The legislative changes to insolvency rules and regulations, "Burton's Purge" and cessation of incarceration for debt. Over 35 case studies of those who became insolvent are included from material held in individual N.S.W State Archives and Records files. The case studies follow the insolvents from their arrival in the district through to their discharge and (in most cases) financial recovery.
The Europeans in Australia
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia fi...
Struggle and Suffrage in Leatherhead
The road to suffrage for the women of Leatherhead was often bumpy and unwelcomed by men and women alike. The Women’s Suffrage Caravan rolled into Leatherhead on Saturday, 16 May 1908, its presence inciting riots amongst many of the menfolk. The town’s Unionist Club in December 1908 passed the motion that it was ‘unpropitious’ for legislation on the question of women’s suffrage and yet, from behind the closed door of her home in Belmont Road, women’s rights campaigner Marie Stopes had begun to pen Married Love; suffrage campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett would fascinate her audience at Victoria Hall in 1910; and Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrest and detention at Leatherhead police stat...
The Europeans in Australia: Democracy
"[This book] takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. [The author] tells of the expansion and enrichment of the colonies and the emergence of democracy. By exploring the nineteenth-century 'communication revolution' he also casts new light on the way Australia first took its place in a 'global' world."--Book jacket.
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
Includes the Society's Annual report and statement of accounts.
Public Opinion
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Alexander Harris
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