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Australian architecture - Australia's Culture PortalInternationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
Unknown artist, Ben Hall, the bushranger, c. The exploits, capture and death of 'Brave' Ben Hall in the 1860s are part of Australian folklore, as well as marking a historical shift in the treatment of bushrangers. Hall's exploits and the apparent ineffi...
In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
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Female Factory: Work | State Library of New South Wales (website State Library of New South Wales )The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
The index has been compiled from the Colonial Secretary's papers and from other records relating to the Female Factory, held in State Records NSW. Request Index Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 (see full catalogue details for this item) which is on...
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the convictions of all. Required fields are marked with *....
Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Assoc (Parragirls) is a non-profit organisation established in 2006 to raise awareness about the history and heritage of the Precinct and to fight for its preservation and recognition as Australia's earliest female convi...
Contact register and support network for former inmates of the Parramatta Girls Home and other NSW State run institutions for children. For a AU$30 per search HISTORY SERVICES will undertake a search and include additional information such as references &...
In 1840 work commenced on Australia's first purpose built orphanage for Roman Catholic Children later known as the Roman Catholic Orphan School. Parramatta Industrial School for Girls was the third successive institution under State control in NSW operat...
Parragirls Precinct - for information about the Parramatta Female Factory, Parramatta Lunatic Asylum, Roman Catholic Orphan School, Parramatta Girls Training School and Hay Institution for Girls. Parramatta Female Factory>Built in 1821 the Parramatta Fema...
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Production enquiryRead this scriptBuy this script Author Nick ENRIGHT > Synopsis A zealous middle-class woman seeks to better the lives and conditions of a group of female convicts in colonial NSW. A child born within the institution tests the conviction...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Mrs Hutchinson and the Female Factories of Early Australia © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
These gritty factory women endured 17th and early 18th century British poverty, left families behind, survived by the high seas, translocation to an unfamiliar place and often harsh penal system to become the farmers, business women, tradeswomen and 'moth...
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