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Vor 3 Tagen · Colonial forces, including home raised units, saw action in many of the conflicts of the British Empire during the 19th century. Members from British regiments stationed in Australia saw action in India, Afghanistan, the New Zealand Wars, the Sudan conflict, and the Boer War in South Africa.
Vor einem Tag · A 19th-century engraving of an Aboriginal Australian encampment, showing the indigenous lifestyle in the cooler parts of Australia at the time of European settlement The first contact between British explorers and Indigenous Australians came in 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook interacted with the Guugu Yimithirr people around ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Australia, the continent and the country, may have been quite isolated at the beginning of the 20th century, but it entered the 21st century a culturally
Vor 2 Tagen · She focuses thereby on voyages undertaken in tropical climates while discussing convicts, scurvy and diets within British prisons in the first half of the 19th century, comparing those diets with rations issued during the voyage.
Vor 2 Tagen · Nineteenth-Century Australia Then and Now: Remembering Australia’s Past in Neo-Victorian Fiction. The historical novel is a highly popular and critically-significant genre among contemporary Australian novelists and readers alike, with examples dominating bestseller and literary award lists.
Vor 4 Tagen · The population grew steadily in the following years; the continent was explored, and during the 19th century another five largely self-governing Crown Colonies were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies became a federation, and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed.
Vor 2 Tagen · how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia. Written by Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia. In this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century Australia would have emanated from ...
