Smythies, Capt. Raymond H., Historical records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment, now 1st Battalion the Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), A. H. Swiss, Devonport, 1894
Stacpoole, Henry J., Gold at Ballarat: The Ballarat East Goldfield, Its Discovery and Development, Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, 1971
Stoney, Henry B., Victoria: With a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong: and remarks on the present state of the colony; including an account of the Ballaarat disturbances, and the death of Captain Wise, 40th Regiment, Smith, Elder & Co., Dublin, 1856
Strange, Albert W. S. and Strange, B., Ballarat: The Formative Years, (self-published), Ballarat, 1982
Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present, Vol. I, McCarron, Bird & Co., Melbourne, 1888
Sutherland, George, Tales of the Goldfields, Walker, May and Co., Melbourne, 1880
Suttor, W. H., Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life, Whalan, Bathurst, 1887
Toghill, Jeff, The Great Dividing Range, Reed, Frenchs Forest, 1982
Tom, William and Lister, John, History of the Discovery of the First Payable Gold-field (Ophir) in Australia, Western Examiner Office, 1871 (online, Cultural Collections, University of Newcastle)
Tuckey, James Hingston, An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait: on the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, In the Years 1802-3-4, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, and J. C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805
Turnbull, Clive, Australian Lives, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965
Turner, Henry Gyles, Our Own Little Rebellion: the Story of the Eureka Stockade, Whitcombe & Tombs, Melbourne, 1913
Twain, M., Following the Equator, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1925
Van Toorn, Penny, Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006
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Whitaker, Anne-Maree, Unfinished Revolution: United Irishmen in NSW 1800-1810, Crossing Press, Sydney, 1994
Wickham, D., Deaths at Eureka, Dorothy Wickham, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1996
Wickham, D.; Gervasoni, D. and D’Angri, V.; The Eureka Flag: Our Starry Banner, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2000
Wilson, J. W., The Starry Banner of Australia: An Episode in Colonial History, Brian Donaghey, Brisbane, 1963
Withers, W. B., History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time, F. W. Niven and Co., Ballarat, 1887
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Journal articles
Cahir, David and Clark, Ian D., ‘Why should they pay money to the Queen? Aboriginal Miners and Land Claims’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2008
Clark, Ian D., ‘You have all this place, no good have children … Derrimut: traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?’ Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 91, No. 2, December 2005
Dickens, Charles, Household Words, Vol. 5, No. 121, 17 July 1852, Office 16, Wellington Street North, London, 1852
Franklin, William E., ‘Governors, Miners and Institutions: The Political Legacy of Mining Frontiers in California and Victoria’, California History, Vol. 65, No. 1, March, 1986
Hancock, Marguerite, ‘News from Jolimont: The Letters of Charles Joseph and Sophie La Trobe to their Daughter Agnes, 1845-1854’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 73, No. 2, September 2002
Harvey, J. T., ‘Locating the Eureka Stockade: Use of a Geographical Information System (GIS) in a Historiographical Research Context: Computers and the Humanities’, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2003
McCrae, George Gordon, ‘Some Recollections of Melbourne in the “Forties”’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1912
Molony, John, ‘Eureka and the Prerogative of the People’, Papers on Parliament, No. 42, December 2004
Potts, Eli D., and Potts, Annette, ‘The Negro and the Australian Gold Rushes’, Pacific Historical Review, 1852-1857, Vol. 37, No. 4, November 1968
Taylor, Greg, ‘Two Refusals of Royal Assent in Victoria‘, Sydney Law Review, Vol. 29, 2007
Waugh, John, ‘Framing the First Victorian Constitution, 1853-5’, Monash University Law Review, Melbourne Law School, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997
Wright, Clare, ‘An Indelible Stain: Gifts of the Samuel Lazarus diary’, History Australia, Vol. 6, No. 2
Newspapers and periodicals
The Age
The Argus
The Austral Light
Barrier Miner
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal
The Ballarat Courier
The Ballarat Star
The Ballarat Times: Buninyong & Creswick’s Creek Advertiser
The British Colonist
The British Critic: A New Review
Cairns Post
The Centennial Magazine
The Courier
The Daily News
Daily Southern Cross
Empire
The Examiner (Launceston)
Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer
The Gold Diggers’ Advocate and Commercial Advertiser
The Hobart Town Courier
Illustrated Australian News
The Illustrated London News
The Irish Felon
Launceston Advertiser
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser
The Manchester Guardian
The Melbourne Morning Herald and General Daily Advertiser
Neue Oder-Zeitung
The Observer
Otago Witness
The People’s Advocate
The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News
The Southern Cross
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Times
The Washington Post
The West Australian
Victorian Government Gazette
Government publications
Gazettes
NSW Government Gazette
Victoria Government Gazette
Parliamentary papers
‘Further Papers Relative to the Alterations in the Constitutions of the Australian Colonies’, 14 March 1853, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1853
‘Correspondence (and Further Papers) Relevant to the (Recent) Discovery of Gold in Australia, 1852-1856’ in Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Victoria 1851-1856, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1852-1856
Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (Great Britain), Third Series, Vol. IV, published by T.C., Hansard, Pater Noster Row, 1831
Reports
‘Report of the Board into the Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbances at Ballarat’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1854
‘Report of the Commission Appointed to Enquire into the Condition of the Goldfields of Victoria’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1855
‘Report from the Select Committee upon Mr. J. F. V. Fitzgerald’s Case Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices’, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1867
Others
Victorian Supreme Court State Trials, March 1855. Queen v. Joseph. Queen v. Hayes. John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1855
‘An Act for the Better Security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom’, Section III, 22 April 1848, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.
Unpublished material
Note: The Public Record Office of Victoria holds a large volume of unpublished material relevant to the Victorian goldfields 1851-1855 and in particular the Eureka Rebellion, accession details for which appear in the endnotes. Many of these records have been made avail
able online at: http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au.
The majority of government correspondence &c. has been sourced from the government series of collected papers, published under the title(s) ‘Correspondence (and Further Correspondence) Relevant to the Discovery of Gold in Australia’ and, unpublished, from the Public Records Office of Victoria. The majority of unpublished diggers’ correspondence has been sourced from the Public Records Office of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. Full accession details for all correspondence is to be found in the relevant endnote.
Correspondence
Forlonge to Barnes, SLV MS Box 111/5
Foster to Wallace, VPRS 3219, Vol. 20
Grant (Mrs) to Hotham, VPRS 4066, No. 4, Box 1
Lalor to his brother Richard, SLV, AJCP, M2039
Manning to the Secretary of the Denominational Schools Board, VPRS 61, 54/399
McIntyre to his brother, SLV, MS 8077 Box 956/2
Pasley to his father, ML, B1564
Pasley to Hotham, VPRS 1189/P Unit 92, K/5413511
Pasley to the Colonial Secretary, VPRS 1189/P, Unit 92, K54/13512
Peters to Malmesbury, SLV, MS 7662, Box 74/3, No. 501
Revell to Sturt, PROV VPRS, 5527/P Unit 2, Item 4
Smyth to Hotham, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, December, 1854, No. 3
Sturt to Colonial Secretary, 51/1396, VPRS, 1189, Box 8I
Diaries and journals
Batman, John, journal, SLV, MS13181
Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smyth, diary, The Ballarat Riots 1854, SLV, MS 7725, Box 646/9
Lazarus, Samuel, diary, 24 September 1853-21 January 1855, SLV, MS Box 1777/4
McBrien, James, field book 205 - Traverse of Road from Emu Plans to Bathurst, Survey of Portion of Macquarie and Fish Rivers, 1823 (http://www.baseline.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/fieldbooks/fieldbook3.html)
Pierson, Thomas, diary, SLV, MS 11646, Box 2178/4
Other
Captain Thomas’s Plan of Defense for the Government Camp, Ballarat, 27 October 1854, St. Ives Library, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat
1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition, courtesy of the State Library of Victoria, The Sessional Papers printed by Order of the House of Lords, or Presented by Royal Command, in the Session 1854
Ballarat Miners’ Petition to Lieutenant Sir Governor Charles Hotham, 23 October 1854, VPRS 5527 Eureka Stockade - Historical Collection P0, Unit 1
Bentley, James, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1
Carter, Jeffries, evidence, State Trials, Queen v. Seekamp, VPRS 30/P, Criminal Sessions Melbourne, Unit 40, Case No. 2
Conboy, Thomas, deposition against Albert Hurd for rioting at Bentley’s Hotel, 27 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 7
Evans, Gordon, deposition, 11 December 1854, trial brief for Arthur Purcell Akehurst for the murder of Henry Powell, VPRS 30/P Unit 40, Case no. 2, Criminal Sessions Melbourne
Martin, Peter, deposition, brief for the prosecution in the trial of James and Catherine Bentley, W. Stance, and John (or Thomas) Farrell and others, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 5
Mooney, Thomas, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s Murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P, Unit 1, Item 1
Record of meeting between Lieutenant-Governor Hotham and a deputation from the diggers, led by J. B. Humffrays and George Black, 27 November 1854, VPRS 1095/P Unit 3, Bundle 1, No. 16
Record of public meeting held near St Paul’s Church, 8 December 1854, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, December 1854, No. 50
Rede, Robert, Account of the Gravel Pit riots and call for martial law to be proclaimed, 30 November 1854, VPRS 1085/P Unit 8, Duplicate 162, Enclosure No. 4
Report of meeting between Lieutenant-Governor Hotham and a deputation from the diggers, led by J. B. Humffrays and George Black, 27 November 1854, VPRS 1095/P Unit 3, Bundle 1, No. 16
Seekamp’s press, inflammatory poster, VPRS 5527/P Unit 4, Item 1
Statement of the jury following the inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1
Thomas, Plan of Defense for the Government Camp, 27 October 1854, St. Ives Library, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat
Thomas, report on the attack on the Eureka Stockade to the Major Adjutant General, 3 December 1854, VPRS 1085/P Unit 8, Duplicate 162, Enclosure 7
Welch, Barnard, deposition, inquest into James Scobie’s murder, 7 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P0, Unit 1, Item 1
Welsh, Benjamin, additional deposition for the inquest investigating the murder of James Scobie, 22 October 1854, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 2
Wills, William, deposition, 11 December 1854, ‘Trial Brief for Arthur Purcell Akehurst for the Manslaughter of Henry Powell’, VPRS 30/P Unit 40, Case No. 2, Criminal Sessions Melbourne
Wood, Thomas, deposition, 27 October 1854, ‘Depositions Taken Against Albert Hurd for Rioting at Bentley’s Hotel’, VPRS 5527/P Unit 1, Item 7
Websites
Australian Dictionary of Biography (http://adb.anu.edu.au/)
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society (www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au)
Ballarat Heritage Services (http://www.ballaratheritage.com.au/eureka/eureka.html)
Ballarat Historical Society (http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1)
Ballarat Reform League Inc. (www.ballaratreformleague.org.au)
Defending Victoria (http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/ross.html)
The C. J. La Trobe Society (www.latrobesociety.org.au)
eGold (www.egold.net.au)
The Eureka Centre (www.eurekaballarat.com)
Engels Internet Archive (http://www.marxists.org)
Heretic Press - Eureka Stockade
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The Historic Shipping Website (www.historic-shipping.co.uk)
Museum of Australian Democracy (www.foundingdocs.gov.au)
Public Record Office of Victoria (www.prov.vic.gov.au)
Public Record Office Victoria Wiki (www.wiki.prov.vic.gov.au)
Reason in Revolt (www.reasoninrevolt.net.au)
Ship’s Passengers Lists (Victoria) (http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide050/PROVguide050.jsp)
SurgiCat, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Soldiers at Eureka Genealogy
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Sovereign Hill/Gold Museum
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Victoria Government Gazette (www.gazette.slv.vic.gov.au)
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