Curufea Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Online Bushranger resources Online Exhibitions Digital images from the National Library of Australia http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=bushrangers&BOOL1=all+of+these&FLD1=Keyword+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29&GRP1=AND+with+next+set&SAB2=nla+http&BOOL2=all+of+these&FLD2=URL+%28856U%29&GRP2=AND+with+next+set&SAB3=pic+map+ms+mus+aus+oh&BOOL3=any+of+these&FLD3=URL+%28856U%29&GRP3=AND+with+next+set&SL=None&CNT=10&HIST=1&DB=local Digital images from the Picture Australia site (combines images from other libraries) http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PASearch&mode=trail&attribute1=collection&term1="Bushrangers+trail" Fulltext Resources The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land - Rowcroft, Charles (d.1856) http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/rowbush Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Dieman's Land - Wells, T. E. (Thomas E.) (1782-1833) http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/p00059 Online Australian Information Online Exhibitions The World Upside Down - the colonisation of Australia online exhibition http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/upsidedown/ Who'll come a "Waltzing Matilda" with me? http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/ The Diary of William John Wills - explorer of the Northern Territory and Queensland. http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/wills/pages/map.html A rage for curiosity presents images of European Australia between 1788 and 1830 http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/rage/ Australian Observer: The Photographs of Harold Cazneaux 1878-1953 http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/caz/ Federal Fashions - The fashions worn by the men, women and children who attended the celebrations marking the Federation of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fed-exhibition/slices/fashions/index.html Federation Images http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/resources/fedimg/ Images from the Hume Family Collection http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume97/humecont.html Online Australian Fiction Online Exhibitions Sensational Tales http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/whatson/exhib/pulp/ Fulltext Resources The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) 1840-1845: Novels http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/acdp.html AustLit Primary Source Texts http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/austlittexts.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia Okay that's a list of good primary online sources. Now for some slightly more dubious - but much more accessable online sources :- Bushranger websites The Bushranger website http://scs.une.edu.au/Bushrangers/HOME.HTM Australian Bushrangers http://www.wilmap.com.au/bushrangers.html Ned Kelly's World http://www.nedkellysworld.com.au/ The Glenrowan Siege http://www.glenrowan1880.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia And in case you are wondering why there is so much stuff on the internet by/about Australia - this is from our Prime Minister's speech in LONDON TUESDAY 4 JULY 2000 "Australia has more computers per person than any other country in the world except one. The number of households connected to the internet is growing rapidly - and by early next year it is estimated that almost 40 per cent of Australian households will be on line." http://www.pm.gov.au/news/speeches/2000/FINANCIAL_SPEECH%20_4-7.htm And that was 5 years ago.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia Not bad for a nation of crocodile wrestlers whose main source of energy is a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig shit. Don't try to tell me my pop culture sources are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted March 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia I can understand the crocodile reference, that hunter guy was famous in the USA before he was even heard of here - but methane? What have you guys been watching? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia I can understand the crocodile reference' date=' that hunter guy was famous in the USA before he was even heard of here - but methane? What have you guys been watching?[/quote'] I believe that was a reference to "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia Thanks for the info, by the way, Curufea. There should be an RPG based on the old outback. It's just as colorful as the American West, if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted March 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia Well, same time period and lots of frontier exploration Slightly less killings of natives (but it still happened) and much harsher survival (the bush is not as friendly as North American outback, and deadlier critters). Various gold/opal rushes, land claims and convict problems - plus daring exploration into the interior. Many sheep shearing and drover tales. Hmm, what's some good movies and books? Well, Colleen McCulloch is good (as well for her Roman series), the Dad&Dave movie, the various bushranger movies (even my city, Canberra - which is only 92 years old on monday-week, had a bushranger, living in caves in Blackmountain), The Man from Snowy River, Prose and poetry - Banjo Patterson of course (http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature1/), The Australian Project Gutenberg (etexts)- http://gutenberg.net.au/ BTW - totally offtopic, my current favourite local movie is The Perfect Day. A bit too melodramatic and angsty - but well done. Here's a list of fairly current movies- http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~stocky/ausfilms.html The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Patterson There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses -- he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray. All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far Had mustered at the homestead overnight, For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses are, And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight. The rest can be read here- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/snowy11.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Re: 19th Century Australia I don't know whether Americans can get hold of them but the Australian author Frank Clune wrote a series of biographies of Australian bushrangers. (Martin Cash, Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall) many years ago. (1960's I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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