Research Notes
The following research notes have been written by the Education Officers at Sovereign Hill.
Characters of the Goldfields (pdf) New!
Notes for Primary Students
(Reprinted with kind premission of the Sovereign Hill Schools)
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Gold! Gold! Properties and Uses (pdf)
The Great Irish Famine -1846 (pdf)
A Safe Passage (pdf)
Golden Literature. Quotes from the gold fields (pdf)
The Chinese (pdf)
1850s School Life (pdf)
Notes for Secondary Students
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Ballarat's Indigenous Heritage (pdf)
Law and Order on the Goldfields (pdf)
The Discovery of Gold in Australia (pdf)
Eureka (pdf)
Life on the Goldfields (pdf)
Women on the Goldfields (pdf)
Transport in the 1850s (pdf)
Mining Technology (pdf)
The Chinese in Ballarat (pdf)
Primary Sources - Goldfields Quotes (pdf)