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Edward Snell
Edward Snell made ‘two piles’ of money: one out of gold-digging, the other as the Engineer of the Melbourne-Geelong Railway.
Propaganda
From supporting the ‘mother country’, to the mythic status of Gallipoli, journalists and artists saw World War I as the birth of a nation.
Thomas Pierson
In New York, the Piersons joined American, Canadian, German and English men and women on a 4 month voyage to Australia.
Law & order
Most observers were surprised that such a large population - most of them armed - were so well-behaved.
Chinese
Chinese migrants made up a large proportion of those coming to Victoria to try and make their fortune on the gold fields.
Charles Hotham
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hotham didn't want the job, but he had no choice - Victoria needed sorting out.
Prospecting methods
Water and gravity were used to separate gold from dirt in the early days of the gold rushes.
Jong Ah Siug
Jong Ah Siug wrote a remarkable diary while an inmate in one of Victoria’s asylums.
Antoine Fauchery
Antoine Fauchery returned from Ballarat with £60; he spent £30 on a billiard table and opened his café.
Richest discoveries
Beneath the soil of Victoria were the biggest and purest nuggets ever discovered.