The Inferno of Black Thursday On 6 February 1851, the colony of Port Phillip (later Victoria) awoke to a day […]
The Grief of Bishop Broughton and the Paradox of Faith On 16 September 1849, Sarah Broughton, wife of William Grant […]
A Christmas Day That Shocked the Bishop On Christmas Day in 1846, William Grant Broughton, the Lord Bishop of Australia, […]
The Political Landscape of Colonial Australia in the 1840s By the mid-1840s, the Australian colonies were embroiled in fierce debates […]
A Colony at a Crossroads On 26 January 1843, Sydney Harbour shimmered under a cloudless summer sky as crowds gathered […]
The Clash of Worlds in Colonial Australia By 1843, the British settlers who had envisioned Australia as a blank canvas […]
From Penal Colony to Settler Society The early decades of Australian colonization were marked by a profound tension between its […]
The Contrasting Landscapes of Two Colonies The early 19th century saw New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land (modern-day Tasmania) […]
A Colony Divided: Ignorance and Barbarism in 1830s Australia By the late 1830s, New South Wales stood at a crossroads […]
A Land of Contradictions In the 1830s, the fledgling colony of New South Wales stood at a crossroads. Its European […]
The Dream of British Civilization in Australia In 1838, the fledgling settlement of Port Phillip (later Melbourne) was gripped by […]
Introduction: A Land of Contradictions By 1840, the European settlers of the Port Phillip District—later known as Victoria—saw themselves as […]
A Governor’s Divine Mission Between 1838 and 1842, South Australia stood at a crossroads. Would it become a colony shaped […]
Introduction: The Search for a New Colonial Model By 1835, two methods of establishing European civilization in Australia had proven […]
A Vision of Prosperity in the Wilderness In 1829, Captain James Stirling achieved what many deemed impossible: he convinced the […]
A Land That Defied Expectations When Dutch sailors first sighted the western coast of Australia in the 17th century, they […]
The Shadows of London: A Young Dickens Observes Parliament Night after night in the early 1830s, a young Charles Dickens […]
A Puritan in a Penal Colony In 1831, Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur presided over Van Diemen’s Land (modern-day Tasmania) with an […]
A Colony Divided: Religion and Politics in 1830s New South Wales The year 1835 found New South Wales at a […]
A Colony at the Crossroads In October 1831, two of New South Wales’ most prominent figures – the fiery native-born […]
A Farmer’s Nostalgia in an Alien Land In 1828, a Devonshire farmer who had migrated to New South Wales years […]
The Call to Govern a Distant Colony In early 1824, James Stephen, a prominent British abolitionist and colonial administrator, delivered […]
