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Underwater footage shows the wreck of the HMS Terror which was lost in 1845.
Topics: history, 19th-century, canada
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The Foundling Archive in Brunswick East is a collection of 8,000 items: photographs, letters, home videos, old format film footage, and other personal documents, dating back to the 1800s.
Topics: historians, history, community-and-society, 20th-century, 19th-century, multiculturalism, library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, brunswick-east-3057, vic, australia
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A new exhibition in Melbourne uses state government photographs to trace a century of hair fashion.
Topics: fashion, 19th-century, 20th-century, photography, library-museum-and-gallery, north-melbourne-3051
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Built on land reclaimed from the Swan River, Perth's Supreme Court Gardens have been providing a palm-treed haven from the noise of the city for more than 100 years.
Topics: 19th-century, 20th-century, history, gardening, human-interest, perth-6000
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The latest exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia sees the state collection raided to highlight the first impressions of the colonists.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, visual-art, painting, 19th-century, human-interest, perth-6000
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The Callington Mill in Oatlands is the only working Georgian-era flour mill in the southern hemisphere having survived grog-running, bankruptcy and blacksmithing since it was built in 1837.
Topics: 19th-century, human-interest, travel-and-tourism, community-and-society, history, oatlands-7120
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| UpdatedBack when the Perth Hills were untouched bushland, one family from Yorkshire settled in area and built a house by hand from the local jarrah and clay.
Topics: 19th-century, history, 20th-century, human-interest, kalamunda-6076, perth-6000
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Theatres are places where people come to tell stories through song, dance and plays. At the Theatre Royal in Hobart, the walls of Australia's oldest colonial Georgian theatre tell stories of their own.
Topics: theatre, history, architecture, 19th-century, human-interest, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedOatlands was home to so many convicts in the 1800s, the small town needed its own supreme court in order to deal with executions.
Topics: 19th-century, history, human-interest, prisons-and-punishment, oatlands-7120
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In 1896 Hobart formed its first professional nursing service — 120 years later it is still working in the community to help people stay in their own homes.
Topics: history, 19th-century, 20th-century, doctors-and-medical-professionals, human-interest, community-and-society, women, moonah-7009
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Convicts arrived in Tasmania with a range of tattoos, showing the trend to get inked has a long history in Australia.
Topics: 19th-century, fashion, human-interest, history, hobart-7000
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The first church built south of Hobart has been almost lost to nature and time, but St Peter's rich history won't be forgotten.
Topics: 19th-century, anglicans, human-interest, great-bay-7150
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| UpdatedMany people believe Australian history is a boring and colourless saga, but a closer examination shows it is full of comical characters and hilarious cock-ups, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: comedy-humour, history, 20th-century, 19th-century, people, arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, australia
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Joseph Conrad, the author of such books as Heart Of Darkness and Nostromo, has a connection to Tasmania that many locals are not aware of. It lies in the water at Otago Bay.
Topics: 19th-century, 20th-century, author, people, otago-7017
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| UpdatedImagine seeing a dozen bullocks pulling a heritage wagon, loaded with wool in your main street — you'd wonder what century you were in.
Topics: wool, livestock, carnivals-and-festivals, 19th-century, agribusiness, oatlands-7120, launceston-7250
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Brian Fish is preparing for a record-setting event pulling a big load of wool with his 12 bullock team through the main street of Tasmania's heritage town of Oatlands.
Topics: wool, livestock, carnivals-and-festivals, 19th-century, oatlands-7120
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One of Perth's first formal parks, Russell Square, has endured the ups and downs of Northbridge's fortunes and is now a popular meeting point once again.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, 20th-century, 19th-century, immigration, urban-development-and-planning, perth-6000, northbridge-6003
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The windows at All Saints Church in South Hobart are considered some of Australia's best examples of 19th-century stained glass design.
Topics: architecture, 19th-century, human-interest, south-hobart-7004
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Detail of a stained glass window at All Saints Church
Topics: 19th-century, south-hobart-7004
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Known at the time as the "Idiotic Railway", the Bellerive to Sorell rail line left a permanent mark on Hobart's eastern shore communities.
Topics: 20th-century, 19th-century, human-interest, bellerive-7018
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| UpdatedAs one of New Zealand's most iconic artwork, The Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand caused a sensation when it was first exhibited in 1899.
Topics: 19th-century, colonialism, painting, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedIn the far western corner of a cemetery in the Australian city of Mackay, volunteers are currently working to uncover hundreds of unmarked graves.
Topics: 19th-century, history, community-and-society, pacific
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| UpdatedAn academic thesis on colonial monetary policy in 19th century Fiji has turned into a wide ranging inquiry into the way world powers use currencies for a former Fiji academic.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, history, 19th-century, pacific, fiji
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The Queensland Heritage Council votes against protecting three old timber houses in Brisbane that were the subject of a community protest earlier this year.
Topics: local-government, 19th-century, 20th-century, state-parliament, urban-development-and-planning, highgate-hill-4101, brisbane-4000
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Examine the origins of Perth's Horseshoe Bridge — named for its unusual shape — which continues to be a vital link for cross-city traffic.
Topics: history, 19th-century, human-interest, perth-6000