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  • 1852 Bendigo goldfields petition
    $11.55 1852 Bendigo goldfields petition
    This is a microfiche record. 1852 goldfields petition of Bendigo diggers 10th July 1852.From VPRS  1192P/T3Original format - Alphabetical format.2...
  • Address with signatories from the women of Ballarat and Ballarat East to the women of England 1864
    $10.00 Address with signatories from the women of Ballarat and Ballarat East to the women of England 1864
    Book Postage $3.00 Softcover; A5; 58pp. Author Robin Da Costa-Adams. On 26th January 1864 the Secretary of State for the Colonies wrote to the Governors of Australia stating that the recommendations of the Commissioners...
  • Annals of Bendigo Volume 1 1851-1867
    $19.50 Annals of Bendigo Volume 1 1851-1867
    CD record This collection was gleaned mainly from 'The Bendigo Advertiser' which started in 1853. This is a compilation of events that happened throughout the period, all in chronological order, giving the reader a quick...
  • Annals of Bendigo Volume 3 1892-1909
    $19.50 Annals of Bendigo Volume 3 1892-1909
    CD record In 1916, George Mackay continued his popular series of the 'Annals of Bendigo'. This third volume covers the period 1892-1909, and in this one you will find that the population of Greater Bendigo is listed as...
  • Ballarat and Ballarat East Directory 1865-1866
    $23.50 Ballarat and Ballarat East Directory 1865-1866
    CD record Street Directory - 65 pages The full title is 'Ballarat and Ballarat District Directory including Buninyong, Browns, Clunes, Creswick, Smythesdale and Scarsdale for 1865-66' Compiled by F.M. Dicker. This 250 page...
  • Ballarat and District 1901
    $34.50 Ballarat and District 1901
    CD record This large book is a detailed history and account of the progress and culture of the well known gold mining area of Ballarat up to (and including) 1901. Fully titled 'Ballarat and District in 1901, a concise...
  • Ballarat and Vicinity
    $29.50 Ballarat and Vicinity
    CD record 'Ballarat and Vicinity' written by W.B. Kimberly in about 1895 is a rare and well known publication containing a comprehensive account of Ballarat's financial, commercial, mining, and agricultural enterprises; as...
  • Ballarat Compendium 1
    $79.50 Ballarat Compendium 1
    CD record Ballarat is not only Victoria's largest inland city, but it holds such an important in Australia's history due to the gold found in the region. Founded in 1838, gold was first discovered in the region in 1851.Once...
  • Bendigo and Vicinity 1895
    $29.50 Bendigo and Vicinity 1895
    CD record The rapid growth of Bendigo - one of the prodigy cities of Australia - has seldom been rivalled in all history in any country. Originally known as Sandhurst, the city grew quickly out of the Victorian gold rush and...
  • Bendigo Compendium 1: 11 Bendigo products in one set
    $99.50 Bendigo Compendium 1: 11 Bendigo products in one set
    CD record With gold first discovered in 1851 by the wives of two farmhands in the Bendigo Creek, word soon spread and so did the population. By the time of the 1861 census Bendigo had a population of over 13,000, and at the...
  • Bendigo Goldfield 1936
    $14.50 Bendigo Goldfield 1936
    CD record Bendigo is one of the richest and certainly the most permanent of the Victorian goldfields. As at 1936, it was the only state with an unbroken production record extending back to the middle of the 1800s. During...
  • Bendigo Goldfield Map 1913
    $9.50 Bendigo Goldfield Map 1913
    CD record This consists of 4 separate maps joined here to make one large This consists of 4 separate maps joined here to make one large complete reference map - 0.71 metres wide x 2.35 metres high at a scale of 8 chains to...
  • Bendigo Goldfield Registry 1872: Notes on the Bendigo Goldfield
    $19.50 Bendigo Goldfield Registry 1872: Notes on the Bendigo Goldfield
    CD record Published in 1872, this is the second edition of the 'Bendigo Goldfield Registry', a collection of information relating to the goldfields, reefs and companies in the region. The first part of the book contains...
  • Bendigo Goldfield: Resources of the 'Central Area'
    $23.50 Bendigo Goldfield: Resources of the 'Central Area'
    CD record Resources of the "Central Area" by Victor J.R. Pabst To quote from the Preface: The "Resources of the 'Central Area'" has been written in the hope of assisting mining investors to a fuller understanding of the...
  • Bendigonian Annual 1908
    $14.50 Bendigonian Annual 1908
    CD record 1908 saw the first issue of the 'Bendigonian Annual' published, and claims to be a 'mine of information', and it really is. It contains a record of events and happenings throughout 1908, locally, statewide and...
  • Bendigonian Annual 1911
    $14.50 Bendigonian Annual 1911
    CD record This fourth issue of the 'Bendigonian Annual' was produced in a similar form to the first. The 'Record of the Year' provides details of some of the leading events from 1 January through to 30 September 1911. Here...
  • Bendigonian Annual set 1: 1908 and 1911
    $23.50 Bendigonian Annual set 1: 1908 and 1911
    CD record The 'Bendigonian Annual' claims to be a 'mine of information', and it really is. First published in 1908, and published annually, each annual contains a 'Record of the Year' which contains events of happenings...
  • Castlemaine: from camp to city
    $30.00 Castlemaine: from camp to city
    Book A Pictorial History of Forest Creek and the Mount Alexander Goldfields 1835-1900 This superbly illustrated, expanded second edition of 'Castlemaine From Camp to City' has more than 200 original photographs,...
  • Dear Old Bendigo
    $20.00 Dear Old Bendigo
    Book Postage $3.00 A Sketch of the early digging days and Rogers of Eaglehawk By Thomas Braken First published 1892 Thomas Bracken (1843-1898), the son of Thomas and Margaret (Kernan) lies beneath an imposing...
  • Deeper Leads
    $35.00 Deeper Leads
    Book Deeper Leads synthesises the latest scholarly research on Victorian goldfields history. It moves beyond familiar historical narratives of the gold rush era, instead exploring the broader social and cultural significance...
  • Diggings, the bush and Melbourne (The)
    $20.00 Diggings, the bush and Melbourne (The)
    Book Reminiscences of three years' wanderings in Victoria James Armour First printed 1864 A short narrative was written especially for a small circle of intimate acquaintances, who varied the dullness of village life by...
  • Double Gold
    $35.00 Double Gold
    Book Double gold: 1870s mining and farming diaries with a history of Mount Franklin and district Eleven years in the writing, and many more in the research, Double Gold is centred around the extraordinary farming diaries...
  • Electoral Roll Division of Bendigo 1922
    $29.50 Electoral Roll Division of Bendigo 1922
    CD record Electoral Rolls are the nearest thing Australians have to census records, at least at the start of the twentieth century, and hence, they are both extremely important, and useful. This Electoral Roll consists of...
  • Eureka
    $35.00 Eureka
    Book Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. Some diggers had guns, but many were unarmed; some twenty of them were...
  • Eureka Flag: our starry banner
    $13.20 Eureka Flag: our starry banner
    Book Wickham: Gervasoni & D'Angri From the gloom of the vault in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery the Eureka Flag has emerged as an icon of national significance. This remnant of the Eureka Stockade has engendered much...
  • Fly a Rebel Flag: the Eureka Stockade
    $19.00 Fly a Rebel Flag: the Eureka Stockade
    Book 3 December 1854 When government troops stormed the Eureka stockade, the battle lasted just twenty minutes, but it changed Australia forever Robyn Annear
  • Gold Fields of Victoria in 1862
    $19.50 Gold Fields of Victoria in 1862
    CD record A comprehensive survey of the Victoria's goldfields in 1862 in response to two questions CONTENTS Introductory The Rich Quartz Reefs of Inglewood The Antimony Mines of M'Ivor Tarnagulla and Poverty Reef The...
  • Gold Tailings: The Hidden History of Victoria's Central Goldfield Region
    $44.00 Gold Tailings: The Hidden History of Victoria's Central Goldfield Region
    Book The central Victorian goldfields region has left us a rich material legacy. The modern visitor can wander through historic streetscapes whose elements range from the grand and formal to tiny cottage sites and domestic...
  • Governor's Visit to Back creek/Talbot 17 October 1861
    $11.00 Governor's Visit to Back creek/Talbot 17 October 1861
    Book The following account of the Vice-Regal Visit to Back Creek on Thursday 17 October 1861 appeared in the next edition of The North Western Chronicle, the local newspaper which had its headquarters in Back Creek. The...
  • Guide to the Goldfields of Victoria
    $20.00 Guide to the Goldfields of Victoria
    Book With map and new regulations First published 1855 Includes a table of distances; Diggings and places noted in this work; shelter sheds; how to cross flooded creeks; Goldfields regulations...
  • History of Ballarat
    $27.50 History of Ballarat
    CD record 'The History of Ballarat' is an interesting and comprehensive book written by William Withers in 1887. The author saw first-hand, the growth of Ballarat from before the gold era and is therefore able to present an...
  • History of Ballarat and some Ballarat reminiscences
    $150.00 History of Ballarat and some Ballarat reminiscences
    Book Numbered Limited Edition, 1/2 Leather Bound Facsimile Edition $150.00 Produced especially for collectors. A limited edition of 150, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Victoria...
  • History of Bendigo 1891
    $23.50 History of Bendigo 1891
    CD record Bendigo in 1891 had a population of about 100,000 people which placed it as the third largest regional centre in Victoria after Geelong and Melbourne. This volume charts the history of the town and city in the 40...
  • Index to Victorian Goldfields Hospitals' admissions
    $66.00 Index to Victorian Goldfields Hospitals' admissions
    CD Record The CD is an amalgamation of indexes to records of the following eight hospitals. They are all admission records, except that which we have called the Kyneton Hospital Family record: Amherst Hospital...
  • Maldon and the Tarrangower diggings
    $16.50 Maldon and the Tarrangower diggings
    Book It is 50 years since the first release of Maldon and the Tarrangower diggings and the value of this publication has not diminished. The text reflects the times, lifestyles and conditions of the first 100 years of Maldon...
  • Mayors of Bendigo 1856-2001
    $55.00 Mayors of Bendigo 1856-2001
    Book This book records the stories of those who determined the history of local Government in Bendigo, from the first Council in 1856 through to amalgamation with surrounding municipalities in 1994 and onto 2001.These mini...
  • Quartz Reefs of Bendigo
    $20.00 Quartz Reefs of Bendigo
    Book Taken from the Colonial Mining Journal, 1859 and other articles. Mentioning Victoria Reef, Diamond Hill, Glasgow Reef, Specimen Hill, Tin Pot, Johnson's Reef and New Chum...
  • Shot in the Dark
    $9.00 Shot in the Dark
    Book A Pre-Eureka Incident ; Being the peition for the compensation case of Benden S. Hassell Includes an Alphabetical List of Signatures transcribed from the petition of Benden S Hassell For Compensation 1855. The Eureka...
  • Sixteen tons of Clunes gold: history of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company
    $25.00 Sixteen tons of Clunes gold: history of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company
    Book John WoodlandClunes was the first economic goldfield discovered in Victoria, at about the time of its separation from New South Wales in July 1851. Its story is interwoven with the story of the Port Phillip Co. And it...
  • Soldiers Bleed Too: The Redcoats at the Eureka Stockade 1854
    $16.50 Soldiers Bleed Too: The Redcoats at the Eureka Stockade 1854
    Book A fresh and compelling narrative of the conflict at Eureka, near Ballarat, from the perspective of the Redcoats of the 12th and 40th Regiments who served during the Eureka Miners' Rebellion in December 1854. With...
  • South Australian Goldseekers at the Golddiggings of Victoria 1851-1853
    $89.50 South Australian Goldseekers at the Golddiggings of Victoria 1851-1853
    CD record In 1851 South Australians heard that gold have been discovered in Victoria, and it seemed that almost every able-bodied man left South Australia in the hope of making their fortune on the goldfields. Emigrants...
  • St John the Evangelist Anglican Church Soldier's Hill Ballarat 1865-1989
    $5.00 St John the Evangelist Anglican Church Soldier's Hill Ballarat 1865-1989
    Book This history emphasises the efforts to establish and maintain the parish. Hence, the focus is on vicars, rectors and affiliated organisations. Softcover, 56pp, Author: Lois Reynolds...
  • Story of the Eureka Stockade: epic days of the early fifties at Ballarat
    $11.00 Story of the Eureka Stockade: epic days of the early fifties at Ballarat
    Book The Story of the Eureka Stockade produced here in facsimile, was written by John Lynch who fought at Eureka in 1854. Prior to Eureka, when the miners were drilling and maneuvering in army like formations at the Eureka...
  • Women of the Diggings Ballarat 1854
    $55.00 Women of the Diggings Ballarat 1854
    Book The first detailed account of the lives and roles of women on the Victorian goldfields. A fascinating and moving story of the early Ballast goldfields told from a woman's perspective. Remarkable and amazing stories of...

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