"The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time" is a book by Anglo-Australian historian and journalist William Bramwell Withers. After landing in the Australian city of Ballarat in 1855, he started working as a journalist and fiction writer, which allowed him to collect information on the history of the city of his residence.

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Excerpt from The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time The Last Digger Hunt. -collision between the Diggers and Military and Police. -southern Cross Flag again. - Lalor and his Companions Armed, kneel, and swear Mutual Defence. - Irwin's Account. - Carboni Raffaello. - His Pictures of the Times and the Mam - More Troops Arrive. - The Diggers Extend their Organisation Under Arms. - Lalor Commander ln-chief. - Forage and Impressment Parties. - Original Documents. Shots Fired from the Camp - The Stockade Formed. - Narrative of a Government Oficer in the Camp. - Attack by the Military and Taking of the Stockade. - Various Accounts of the Time. - Rafi'aello's Description. Other Tragic Pictures. - First Stone House. - Bank of Victoria Fortified. - A Soldier's Story. - List of the Killed. - Burials. - Rewards Offered for the Insurgent Leaders. - Their Hiding and Escape - Charge Against A. P. Akehurst. - Proclamation of Martial Law - Feeling in Melbourne Foster's Resignation. - Deputation of Diggers. - Humfi'ray Arrested Vote of Thanks to the Troops. - Legislative Council's Address to the Governor. - His Reply. - Prisoners at the Ballarat Police Court. - Royal Commission of Enquiry -trial and Acquittal of the State Prisoners. Humfiray. -lalor'a and his Captain's Hiding Place and Peculiarities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.

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