Websites to help with Australian History
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The document discusses what content should be included in a gallery about emigrants and Aborigines in Australian history. It provides several websites with useful historical information and images that could be featured, such as slide shows depicting colonial life, pictures of emigrants leaving home and arriving in Australia, images of Aboriginal culture including rock art and ceremonies, and portraits of important figures like Bungaree who greeted new arrivals. Specific images mentioned include paintings of emigrants' last views of home, cartoons about population movements, and photographs of miners playing cards.
Websites to help with Australian History
- 1. “Emigrants and Aborigines – What should go in our gallery?” Websites to help with Australian history – A site that has some outstanding “slide shows” and that can take you to very good individual pictures - http://www.pictureaustralia.org/trails/index.html A website that provides links to many others with helpful historical information - http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html Such as this history summary and a site about the goldrush- http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/australianhistory/ http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/ A page that links to all sorts of digital sources on Australian life - http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/ Images used in the Powerpoint – Richard Redgrave – The Emigrants Last Sight of Home (Wikimedia Commons) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Redgrave_- _The_Emigrants'_Last_Sight_of_Home.JPG Emigration from Truro poster http://www.geevor.com/index.php?object=202 “Here and There” cartoon from Punch magazine http://www.mapspictures.com/ireland/history/ireland_population.htm Pictures of “Leaving home”, “The Journey” and “New Land” (From a real gallery exhibition) http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exilesandemigrants/ed_resource.html The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford.madox.brown.the.last.of.england.jpg Emigrant ships arriving in Sydney harbour http://www.nla.gov.au/pict/index.html and then search for “Picken emigrants arriving Sydney” Bungaree – the Aborigine in British naval uniform who greeted emigrants as they arrived http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augustus_Earle_Portrait_of_Bungaree.jpg Aborigine dance (and many other images of Aborigine culture) http://www.pictureaustralia.org/slideshow/Depictions+of+the+First+Australians Aborigine image of Kangaroo on rock face http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aboriginal_Art_Australia(1).jpg Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gov_Davey%27s_proclamation-edit2.jpg Slides in a Trail called “Colonial Life in Art” - Hobart town being built - Mining camp - Arrest of Aborigine “trespassers” - Spearing of Lt Stokes http://www.pictureaustralia.org/trails/slideshows.html “A game of Euchre (cards)” being played by the miners http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an8927787 Truganini (Trugernanner) the (so-called) “last Tasmanian aborigine” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trugernannaer