Bibliography of the Eureka Rebellion

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The following bibliography includes notable sources concerning the Eureka Rebellion. This article is currently being expanded and revised.

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Bibliography

Historiography

General histories

  • Barnard, Marjorie (1962). A History of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
  • Blainey, Geoffrey (1983). A Land Half Won. Melbourne: Sun Books. ISBN   0-7251-0411-2.
  • Clark, Manning (1987). A History of Australia. Vol. IV: The Earth Abideth Forever 1851-1888. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN   9780522841473.
  • Clark, Manning, A Short History of Australia (MacMillan, Melbourne, reprinted illustrated 2nd edition, 1982).
  • Lewis, Wendy; Balderstone, Simon; Bowman, John (2006). Events That Shaped Australia. Wahroonga: New Holland. ISBN   978-1-74110-492-9.
  • Ward, Russel, Australia: A short history (Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979).

Surveys of the period

  • Blee, Jill (2010). Eureka: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Rebellion. Gosford: Exisle Publishing. ISBN   978-1-92-149776-6.
  • Broome, Richard (1984). The Victorians: Arriving. McMahons Point: Syme & Weldon Associates. ISBN   0-9492-8801-2.
  • Goodman, David, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s, Allen & Unwin, 1994.
  • Keesing, Nancy, History of the Australian Goldrushes, Lloyd O’Neil Pty. Ltd. 1971.
  • O'Brien, Bob (1992). Massacre at Eureka: The untold story. Kew: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN   978-1-87-560604-7.
  • Parry, Ann (2007). Riots, Robberies and Rebellions. South Yarra: Macmillan Education. ISBN   978-1-42-020516-9.
  • Serle, Geoffrey (1963). The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851-1861. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN   978-0-52-284143-5.
  • Bert and Bon Strange, Eureka: Gold Graft and Grievances, B&B Strange, Ballarat, 1973.
  • Sunter, Anne Beggs and Livingston, Kevin (eds) The Legacy of Eureka; Past, Present and Future. Ballarat, Australian Studies Centre, University of Ballarat, 1998.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka, BHS Publishing, 2014.

Local histories

  • Bate, Weston (1978). Lucky City, The First Generation at Ballarat, 1851–1901. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN   978-0-52-284157-2.
  • Stacpoole, H.J., Gold at Ballarat: The Ballarat East Goldfield Its Discovery and Development, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971.
  • Strange, W, Ballarat, A Brief History, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971.
  • Withers, William (1999). History of Ballarat and Some Ballarat Reminiscences. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Service. ISBN   978-1-87-647878-0.
Pictorial histories
  • Hocking, Geoff (2004). Eureka Stockade a pictorial history: the events leading to the attack in the pre-dawn of 3 December 1854. Rowville: Five Mile Press. ISBN   1-7412-4426-9.
  • Wenban, Ray (1958). The Revolt at Eureka. Pictorial Social Studies. Vol. 16. Sydney: Australian Visual Education.
Narrative histories

Military histories

  • Blake, Gregory (2012). Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle. Newport: Big Sky Publishing. ISBN   978-1-92-213204-8.
  • Blake, Gregory (2009). To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart: The Battle for the Eureka Stockade. Loftus, ACT: Australian Army History Unit. ISBN   978-0-98-047532-6.

Social histories

  • Connelly, C.N., Miners' Rights, Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism and the Working Class in Australia, (Hale and Ironmonger, Neutral Bay, 1978).
  • Currey, C.H. (1954). The Irish at Eureka. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
  • Inglis, Ken (2015). The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788-1870. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN   978-1-42-020516-9.
  • Potts, E. Daniel & Potts Annette, 'American Republicanism and Disturbances on the Victorian Goldfields' (1968) Vol. 13, No. 50: pp. 145–164 Historical Studies.
  • Potts, Daniel; Potts, Annette (1974). Young America and Australian Gold. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. ISBN   0-7022-0894-9.

Political histories

  • Gold, Geoffrey (1977). Eureka: Rebellion Beneath the Southern Cross. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN   978-0-72-700256-3.
  • Molony, John (1984). Eureka. Ringwood: Viking. ISBN   978-0-67-080085-8.
  • Ross, R.S. (1914). Freedom's Fight of '54. Fraser and Jenkinson.
  • Spence, W.G. (1909). Australia's Awakening. Sydney and Melbourne: The Worker Trustees.
  • Walshe, R. D., The Eureka Stockade, 1854-1954 (Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1954).

Feminist histories

  • Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka's Women, BHS Publishing, 2014.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHS Publishing, 2009.
  • Wright, Clare (2013). The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. Melbourne: Text Publishing. ISBN   978-1-92214-737-0.

Other specialised studies

  • Blainey, Geoffrey (1963). The Rush That Never Ended: A history of Australian mining. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat, BHS Publishing, 1998.
  • Gervasoni & Wickham, Among the Diggers, BHS Publishing, 1999.
  • Darlington, Robert (1983). Eric Campbell and the New Guard. Sydney: Kangaroo Press. ISBN   978-0-94-992434-6.
  • Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat: Eureka from the Mount Alexander Mail.
  • Sidney, Samuel, The Three Colonies of Australia, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields, Ingram. Cooke & Co, London, 1852.
  • Stanley, Peter, The Remote Garrison, The British Army in Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1986.
  • Stoljar, Jeremy (2011). The Australian Book of Great Trials: The Cases That Shaped a Nation. Millers Point: Murdoch Books. ISBN   978-1-74-266131-5.
  • Wickham, Dorothy (1996). Deaths at Eureka. Ballarat: The Author. ISBN   0-646-30283-3.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark, BHS Publishing, 1998.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, St Alipus: Ballarat's First Church, self-published, 1997.

Commemorative publications

  • Rich, Margaret (ed), Eureka: The event and its continuing impact on the nation (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1994).

Biography

  • Blake, Les (1979). Peter Lalor: the man from Eureka. Belmont: Neptune Press. ISBN   978-0-90-913140-1.
  • O'Grady, Desmond, Raffaello! Raffaello!: A Biography of Raffaello Carboni (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1985).
  • O'Grady, Desmond, Stages of Revolution: A biography of the Eureka Stockade's Raffaello Carboni (Hardie Grant Books, Prahan, 2004).
  • Potts, Daniel; Potts, Annette (1970). A Yankee Merchant in Goldrush Australia: The Letters of George Francis Train 1853-55. Melbourne: William Heinemann. ISBN   978-0-85-561010-4.
  • Turnbull, Clive (1965). Australian Lives, Bonanza: The Story of George Francis Train. Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire.
  • Turnbull, Clive (1946). Eureka: The Story of Peter Lalor. Melbourne: Hawthorne Press.

Battlefield archaeology

Vexiollology

  • Australian Flags (3rd ed.). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. 2006. ISBN   0-642-47134-7.
  • Cayley, Frank (1966). Flag of Stars. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN   978-9-04-010451-0.
  • Fox, Len (1973). Eureka and its flag. Canterbury, Victoria: Mullaya Publications. ISBN   978-0-85-914004-1.
  • Fox, Len (1992). The Eureka Flag. Potts Point: The Author. ISBN   978-0-95-892395-8.
  • Fox, Len (1963). The strange story of the Eureka flag. Darlinghurst: The Author.
  • Kwan, Elizabeth (2006). Flag and Nation: Australians and their National Flags since 1901. Sydney: University of New South Wales. ISBN   0-86840-567-1.
  • Smith, Whitney (1975a). Flags Through the Ages and Across the World. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill. ISBN   978-0-07-059093-9.
  • Smith, Whitney (1975b). The Flag Book of the United States: The Story of the Stars and Stripes and the Flags of the Fifty States. New York: William Morrow. ISBN   978-0-68-802977-7.
  • Wickham, Dorothy; Gervasoni, Clare; D'Angri, Val (2000). The Eureka Flag: Our Starry Banner. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Services. ISBN   978-1-87-647813-1.

Primary sources

Memoirs

  • Carboni, Raffaello (1855). The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence of Some Pirates Wanting a Quarterdeck Rebellion. Melbourne: J. P. Atkinson and Co. – via Project Gutenberg.
  • Craig, William (1903). My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields. London: Cassell and Company.
  • Ferguson, Charles (1979). The Experiences of a Forty-Niner in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: Gaston Renard. ISBN   978-0-95-998994-6.
  • Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smyth The Ballarat Riots, 1854 held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
  • Lynch, John (1940). Story of the Eureka Stockade: Epic Days of the Early Fifties at Ballarat (Reprint ed.). Melbourne: Australian Catholic Truth Society.
  • Nicholls, H.R (May 1890). Reminiscences of the Eureka Stockade. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly. II: August 1889 to July 1890 (available in an annual compilation).
  • R.E. Johns Papers, MS10075, Manuscript Collection, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria.
  • Train, George (1902). My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands. London: William Heinemann.
  • Twain, Mark (1925). Following the Equator. New York: Harper and Brothers.
  • Wilson, John W. (1963). The Starry Banner of Australia: An Episode in Colonial History. Brisbane: Brian Donaghey.

Diaries

  • Evans, Charles, diary, 24 September 1853 – 21 January 1855, SLV, MS 11484, Box 1777/4.
  • Pierson, Thomas, diary, SLV, MS 11646, Box 2178/4-5.
  • Taylor, Theophilus, diary, 23 September 1853 – 1 August 1856, Ballarat Genealogy Society.

Letters

  • Pasley, Charles: 1855, Letter to his father. FM 3/359 B1564 6-46A, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
  • Smyth, Patrick: 13 December 1854, Ballarat. Letter to William Henry Archer, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission.
  • Wilson, John: 1856, Letter from Mt. Egerton. ML DOC 2771 6-660c, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Affidavits

Official reports

Other contemporaneous reports

The Argus
The Age
The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Kyogle Examiner
Daily Mercury

Legislation

  • An Act for the Better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies 1850 (UK).
  • The Victoria Electoral Act of 1851 No 3a (NSW).
  • An Act to extend the Elective Franchise 1854 (Vic).
  • An Act for granting duties of Customs upon Gold exported from Victoria 1855 (Vic).
  • An Act to make provision for certain Immigrants 1855 (Vic).
  • Victoria Constitution Act 1855 (UK).
  • Legislative Council Reform Act 1950 (Vic).

Proclamations

  • Supplement to the Victorian Government Gazette, No 6, 13 August 1851, 209.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No. 8, 27 August 1851, 307.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No 22, 3 December 1851, 825.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No 25, 24 December 1851, 871.

Cases

  • The Queen v Joseph(Supreme Court of Victoria1855), Text.
  • The Queen v Hayes(Supreme Court of Victoria1855), Text.

Other documents

  • Ballarat Reform League Charter, 11 November 1854, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, November no. 69, VA 466 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851–1855 and Governor's Office), Public Record Office Victoria.

Reference Books

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 5: 1851-1890, K-Q. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. 1974. ISBN   978-0-52-284061-2.
  • Australian Encyclopaedia Volume Four ELE-GIB (4th ed.). Sydney: Grolier Society. 1983. ISBN   978-0-95-966042-5.
  • Corfield, Justin; Wickham, Dorothy; Gervasoni, Clare (2004). The Eureka Encyclopedia. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Services. ISBN   978-1-87-647861-2.
  • MacFarlane, Ian (1995). Eureka from the Official Records. Melbourne: Public Record Office Victoria. ISBN   978-0-73-066011-8.
  • The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, London, Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

Journals

  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2008). "Eureka; Gathering 'the Oppressed of All Nations'". Journal of Australian Colonial History. 10 (1): 15–34.
  • Blainey, Geoffrey (2008). "Introduction". Journal of Australian Colonial History. 10 (1): 1–14.
  • Historical Studies: Eureka Supplement (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1965.

Historical magazines

  • Ross, C. Stuart (July 1919). "Two American Types that left their Stamp on Victorian History". The Victorian Historical Magazine. Melbourne.
  • "The Defence of the Eureka Stockade". Look and Learn. London: Fleetway Publications Ltd. 14 February 1970.

Other media reports

  • John Bailey, 'Flagging the truth,' The Sunday Age, 8 January 2012, Extra, p. 13.
  • Jo Roberts, 'The art of the uprising,' The Age, 29 November 2004, A3, p. 7.
  • John Huxley, 'Birth of a notion,' Sydney Morning Herald Weekend Edition, 27–28 November 2004, p. 34.
  • James Button, 'Children of rebellion maintain the rage,' The Age, 27 November 2004, pp. 1, 10.

Book reviews

Eureka commemorations

Opinion pieces

Society and culture

Newsletters

  • Benwell, Phillip, 'Eureka. Be not misled! The Eureka Stockade has nothing to do with a republic or the Labor Party but everything to do with the Ultimate Supremacy of Law and Justice Under the Crown' (2004), Australian Monarchist League.

Seminars

  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2004). "Contesting the Flag: the mixed messages of the Eureka Flag". In Mayne, Alan (ed.). Eureka: reappraising an Australian Legend. Paper originally presented at Eureka Seminar, University of Melbourne History Department, 1 December 2004. Perth, Australia: Network Books. pp. 45–60. ISBN   978-1-92-084536-0.
  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2014). Contesting the making of the Eureka Flag. Australian Historical Association Conference. Brisbane.
  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (November 2004). Eureka; Gathering 'the Oppressed of All Nations'. Eureka Conference. University of Ballarat.

Interviews

  • "Historians discuss Eureka legend". Lateline. 7 May 2001. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • "The Eureka Rebellion". 7.30 Report. 14 December 1999. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Speeches

  • Eureka: Saga of Australian history. Canberra: Department of Immigration. 1974. ISBN   978-0-64-293997-5.
  • Geoffrey Blainey (26 November 2004). Eureka - its many meanings (Speech). 2004 Democracy Conference. University of Ballarat.
  • Steve Bracks (26 November 2004). Opening address to Eureka 150 Democracy Conference (Speech). 2004 Democracy Conference. University of Ballarat.

Compilations

  • Clark, Manning, ed. (1966). Sources of Australian History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Eureka Reminiscences. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Service. 1998. ISBN   0-646-35238-5.
  • Mayne, Alan (ed), Eureka: reappraising an Australian Legend (Network Books, Perth, 2007).

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