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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 of Victorian goldfields culture for Australian society.

Deeper Leads is aptly titled. It suggests both the processes of gold mining itself and also the novelty of this book. The authors bring the insights of women's, immigration and multicultural history to bear on the story of goldmining and its immense impact in Victoria. New questions and innovative approaches demand fresh research, and here these combine to produce powerful stories and greater understanding. This book gives Victoria's relic mining landscape, already fascinating to many, a deeper meaning.

Ann Curthoys, Australian National University

This book represents a new approach to the way we evaluate the national and local significance of the Victorian gold rushes. It puts a focus on the people involved, indigenous and immigrant, and their achievements in terms of changing the natural landscape and creating new civic townscapes. Readers will enjoy the cross-disciplinary emphasis of this important contribution to cultural heritage studies.

William Logan, ICOMOS/Deakin University

This timely book fills some cavernous holes in goldfields history. Its emphasis on people - and particularly, forgotten people - restores a vital human element to the epic narrative of gold seeking that changed Australia forever.

Clare Wright, La Trobe University

Contributors Andrew Brown-May, Cate Elkner, Lyndon Fraser, Warwick Frost, Clare Gervasoni, Jennifer Laing, Alan Mayne, Dolly Mackinnon, David Nichols, Andrew Reeves, Keir Reeves, Jonathan Sweet, Betty Weiler, Fiona Wheeler, Dorothy Wickham, Kevin Wong Hoy.

With an introduction by the editors and a foreword by Charles Fahey