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Garryowen Unmasked: The Life of Edmund Finn
by Elizabeth Rushen
Edmund Finn (1819-98), Irish immigrant, journalist, raconteur and eyewitness to the development of the Port Phillip District, is best known as ‘Garryowen’, author of The Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-1852. His lively writing, essential to any appreciation of pre-separation Victoria, brings to life this often-neglected period and place. Yet little has been written about the man himself, his actions or attitudes, or the influences that shaped him.
Across Bass Strait: Intercolonial trade in meat and livestock
by Jane Lennon
Across Bass Strait is a history of the connection between squatters, merchants and mariners in developing the livestock trade in the 1840s for the meat supply to feed convicts in Van Diemen’s Land.
Single & Free: Female migration to Australia 1833-1837
by Elizabeth Rushen
Single & Free is about the scheme administered by the London Emigration Committee to assist free women to migrate to Australia from Great Britain and IreIand. In the 1830s, approximately 3000 women took advantage of this scheme, representing an enormous influx to the population of the two eastern colonies of Australia, New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Heritage Matters: Seventy Years of the East Melbourne Group
by Jill Fenwick OAM
Established to influence Council decisions on amenity in both East Melbourne and Jolimont, by the 1970s the group was active in the protection of heritage places, parks and streetscapes. Heritage Matters reveals that today the Group still acts as the ever-watchful guardian of this small suburb.
