Bibliography of the Eureka Rebellion

The following bibliography includes notable sources concerning the Eureka Rebellion. This article is currently being expanded and revised.

Bibliography

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Historiography

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General histories

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  • Barnard, Marjorie (1962). A History of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
  • Blainey, Geoffrey (1983). A Land Half Won. Melbourne: Sun Books. ISBN 0-7251-0411-2.
  • Clark, Manning (1987). A History of Australia. Vol. IV: The Earth Abideth Forever 1851-1888. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 9780522841473.
  • Clark, Manning, A Short History of Australia (MacMillan, Melbourne, reprinted illustrated 2nd edition, 1982).
  • Lewis, Wendy; Balderstone, Simon; Bowman, John (2006). Events That Shaped Australia. Wahroonga: New Holland. ISBN 978-1-74110-492-9.
  • Ward, Russel, Australia: A short history (Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979).

Surveys of the period

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  • Blee, Jill (2010). Eureka: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Rebellion. Gosford: Exisle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-92-149776-6.
  • Broome, Richard (1984). The Victorians: Arriving. McMahons Point: Syme & Weldon Associates. ISBN 0-9492-8801-2.
  • Goodman, David, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s, Allen & Unwin, 1994.
  • Keesing, Nancy, History of the Australian Goldrushes, Lloyd O’Neil Pty. Ltd. 1971.
  • O'Brien, Bob (1992). Massacre at Eureka: The untold story. Kew: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN 978-1-87-560604-7.
  • Parry, Ann (2007). Riots, Robberies and Rebellions. South Yarra: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-1-42-020516-9.
  • Serle, Geoffrey (1963). The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851-1861. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-284143-5.
  • Bert and Bon Strange, Eureka: Gold Graft and Grievances, B&B Strange, Ballarat, 1973.
  • Sunter, Anne Beggs and Livingston, Kevin (eds) The Legacy of Eureka; Past, Present and Future. Ballarat, Australian Studies Centre, University of Ballarat, 1998.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka, BHS Publishing, 2014.

Local histories

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  • Bate, Weston (1978). Lucky City, The First Generation at Ballarat, 1851–1901. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-284157-2.
  • Stacpoole, H.J., Gold at Ballarat: The Ballarat East Goldfield Its Discovery and Development, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971.
  • Strange, W, Ballarat, A Brief History, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971.
  • Withers, William (1999). History of Ballarat and Some Ballarat Reminiscences. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Service. ISBN 978-1-87-647878-0.
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Pictorial histories
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  • Hocking, Geoff (2004). Eureka Stockade a pictorial history: the events leading to the attack in the pre-dawn of 3 December 1854. Rowville: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-7412-4426-9.
  • Wenban, Ray (1958). The Revolt at Eureka. Pictorial Social Studies. Vol. 16. Sydney: Australian Visual Education.
Narrative histories
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Military histories

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  • Blake, Gregory (2012). Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle. Newport: Big Sky Publishing. ISBN 978-1-92-213204-8.
  • Blake, Gregory (2009). To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart: The Battle for the Eureka Stockade. Loftus, ACT: Australian Army History Unit. ISBN 978-0-98-047532-6.

Social histories

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  • Connelly, C.N., Miners' Rights, Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism and the Working Class in Australia, (Hale and Ironmonger, Neutral Bay, 1978).
  • Currey, C.H. (1954). The Irish at Eureka. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
  • Inglis, Ken (2015). The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788-1870. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 978-1-42-020516-9.
  • Potts, E. Daniel & Potts Annette, 'American Republicanism and Disturbances on the Victorian Goldfields' (1968) Vol. 13, No. 50: pp. 145–164 Historical Studies.
  • Potts, Daniel; Potts, Annette (1974). Young America and Australian Gold. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 0-7022-0894-9.

Political histories

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  • Gold, Geoffrey (1977). Eureka: Rebellion Beneath the Southern Cross. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 978-0-72-700256-3.
  • Molony, John (1984). Eureka. Ringwood: Viking. ISBN 978-0-67-080085-8.
  • Ross, R.S. (1914). Freedom's Fight of '54. Fraser and Jenkinson.
  • Spence, W.G. (1909). Australia's Awakening. Sydney and Melbourne: The Worker Trustees.
  • Walshe, R. D., The Eureka Stockade, 1854-1954 (Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1954).

Feminist histories

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  • Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka's Women, BHS Publishing, 2014.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHS Publishing, 2009.
  • Wright, Clare (2013). The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. Melbourne: Text Publishing. ISBN 978-1-92214-737-0.

Other specialised studies

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  • Blainey, Geoffrey (1963). The Rush That Never Ended: A history of Australian mining. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat, BHS Publishing, 1998.
  • Gervasoni & Wickham, Among the Diggers, BHS Publishing, 1999.
  • Darlington, Robert (1983). Eric Campbell and the New Guard. Sydney: Kangaroo Press. ISBN 978-0-94-992434-6.
  • Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat: Eureka from the Mount Alexander Mail.
  • Sidney, Samuel, The Three Colonies of Australia, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields, Ingram. Cooke & Co, London, 1852.
  • Stanley, Peter, The Remote Garrison, The British Army in Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1986.
  • Stoljar, Jeremy (2011). The Australian Book of Great Trials: The Cases That Shaped a Nation. Millers Point: Murdoch Books. ISBN 978-1-74-266131-5.
  • Wickham, Dorothy (1996). Deaths at Eureka. Ballarat: The Author. ISBN 0-646-30283-3.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark, BHS Publishing, 1998.
  • Wickham, Dorothy, St Alipus: Ballarat's First Church, self-published, 1997.

Commemorative publications

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  • Rich, Margaret (ed), Eureka: The event and its continuing impact on the nation (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1994).

Biography

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  • Blake, Les (1979). Peter Lalor: the man from Eureka. Belmont: Neptune Press. ISBN 978-0-90-913140-1.
  • O'Grady, Desmond, Raffaello! Raffaello!: A Biography of Raffaello Carboni (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1985).
  • O'Grady, Desmond, Stages of Revolution: A biography of the Eureka Stockade's Raffaello Carboni (Hardie Grant Books, Prahan, 2004).
  • Bamberger, Daniel; Young, Anne, Edward Thonen. A forgotten Eureka rebel. Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, Zentrum für Stadtgeschichte und Industriekultur (Wuppertal, 2023).
  • Potts, Daniel; Potts, Annette (1970). A Yankee Merchant in Goldrush Australia: The Letters of George Francis Train 1853-55. Melbourne: William Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-85-561010-4.
  • Turnbull, Clive (1965). Australian Lives, Bonanza: The Story of George Francis Train. Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire.
  • Turnbull, Clive (1946). Eureka: The Story of Peter Lalor. Melbourne: Hawthorne Press.

Battlefield archaeology

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Vexiollology

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  • Australian Flags (3rd ed.). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. 2006. ISBN 0-642-47134-7.
  • Cayley, Frank (1966). Flag of Stars. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 978-9-04-010451-0.
  • Fox, Len (1973). Eureka and its flag. Canterbury, Victoria: Mullaya Publications. ISBN 978-0-85-914004-1.
  • Fox, Len (1992). The Eureka Flag. Potts Point: The Author. ISBN 978-0-95-892395-8.
  • Fox, Len (1963). The strange story of the Eureka flag. Darlinghurst: The Author.
  • Kwan, Elizabeth (2006). Flag and Nation: Australians and their National Flags since 1901. Sydney: University of New South Wales. ISBN 0-86840-567-1.
  • Smith, Whitney (1975a). Flags Through the Ages and Across the World. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-059093-9.
  • Smith, Whitney (1975b). The Flag Book of the United States: The Story of the Stars and Stripes and the Flags of the Fifty States. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-68-802977-7.
  • Wickham, Dorothy; Gervasoni, Clare; D'Angri, Val (2000). The Eureka Flag: Our Starry Banner. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Services. ISBN 978-1-87-647813-1.

Primary sources

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Memoirs

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  • Carboni, Raffaello (1855). The Eureka Stockade: The Consequence of Some Pirates Wanting a Quarterdeck Rebellion. Melbourne: J. P. Atkinson and Co. – via Project Gutenberg.
  • Craig, William (1903). My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields. London: Cassell and Company.
  • Ferguson, Charles (1979). The Experiences of a Forty-Niner in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: Gaston Renard. ISBN 978-0-95-998994-6.
  • Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smyth The Ballarat Riots, 1854 held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
  • Lynch, John (1940). Story of the Eureka Stockade: Epic Days of the Early Fifties at Ballarat (Reprint ed.). Melbourne: Australian Catholic Truth Society.
  • Nicholls, H.R (May 1890). Reminiscences of the Eureka Stockade. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly. II: August 1889 to July 1890 (available in an annual compilation).
  • R.E. Johns Papers, MS10075, Manuscript Collection, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria.
  • Train, George (1902). My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands. London: William Heinemann.
  • Twain, Mark (1925). Following the Equator. New York: Harper and Brothers.
  • Wilson, John W. (1963). The Starry Banner of Australia: An Episode in Colonial History. Brisbane: Brian Donaghey.

Diaries

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  • Evans, Charles, diary, 24 September 1853 – 21 January 1855, SLV, MS 11484, Box 1777/4.
  • Pierson, Thomas, diary, SLV, MS 11646, Box 2178/4-5.
  • Taylor, Theophilus, diary, 23 September 1853 – 1 August 1856, Ballarat Genealogy Society.

Letters

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  • Pasley, Charles: 1855, Letter to his father. FM 3/359 B1564 6-46A, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
  • Smyth, Patrick: 13 December 1854, Ballarat. Letter to William Henry Archer, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission.
  • Wilson, John: 1856, Letter from Mt. Egerton. ML DOC 2771 6-660c, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Affidavits

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Official reports

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Other contemporaneous reports

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The Argus
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The Age
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The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Kyogle Examiner
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Daily Mercury
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Legislation

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  • An Act for the Better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies 1850 (UK).
  • The Victoria Electoral Act of 1851 No 3a (NSW).
  • An Act to extend the Elective Franchise 1854 (Vic).
  • An Act for granting duties of Customs upon Gold exported from Victoria 1855 (Vic).
  • An Act to make provision for certain Immigrants 1855 (Vic).
  • Victoria Constitution Act 1855 (UK).
  • Legislative Council Reform Act 1950 (Vic).

Proclamations

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  • Supplement to the Victorian Government Gazette, No 6, 13 August 1851, 209.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No. 8, 27 August 1851, 307.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No 22, 3 December 1851, 825.
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No 25, 24 December 1851, 871.

Cases

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  • The Queen v Joseph (Supreme Court of Victoria 1855), Text.
  • The Queen v Hayes (Supreme Court of Victoria 1855), Text.

Other documents

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  • Ballarat Reform League Charter, 11 November 1854, VPRS 4066/P Unit 1, November no. 69, VA 466 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851–1855 and Governor's Office), Public Record Office Victoria.

Reference Books

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  • Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 5: 1851-1890, K-Q. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. 1974. ISBN 978-0-52-284061-2.
  • Australian Encyclopaedia Volume Four ELE-GIB (4th ed.). Sydney: Grolier Society. 1983. ISBN 978-0-95-966042-5.
  • Corfield, Justin; Wickham, Dorothy; Gervasoni, Clare (2004). The Eureka Encyclopedia. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Services. ISBN 978-1-87-647861-2.
  • MacFarlane, Ian (1995). Eureka from the Official Records. Melbourne: Public Record Office Victoria. ISBN 978-0-73-066011-8.
  • The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, London, Blackwell Publishing, 2009.

Journals

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  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2008). "Eureka; Gathering 'the Oppressed of All Nations'". Journal of Australian Colonial History. 10 (1): 15–34.
  • Blainey, Geoffrey (2008). "Introduction". Journal of Australian Colonial History. 10 (1): 1–14.
  • Historical Studies: Eureka Supplement (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1965.

Historical magazines

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  • Ross, C. Stuart (July 1919). "Two American Types that left their Stamp on Victorian History". The Victorian Historical Magazine. Melbourne.
  • "The Defence of the Eureka Stockade". Look and Learn. London: Fleetway Publications Ltd. 14 February 1970.

Other media reports

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  • John Bailey, 'Flagging the truth,' The Sunday Age, 8 January 2012, Extra, p. 13.
  • Jo Roberts, 'The art of the uprising,' The Age, 29 November 2004, A3, p. 7.
  • John Huxley, 'Birth of a notion,' Sydney Morning Herald Weekend Edition, 27–28 November 2004, p. 34.
  • James Button, 'Children of rebellion maintain the rage,' The Age, 27 November 2004, pp. 1, 10.

Book reviews

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Eureka commemorations

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Opinion pieces

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Society and culture

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Newsletters

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  • Benwell, Phillip, 'Eureka. Be not misled! The Eureka Stockade has nothing to do with a republic or the Labor Party but everything to do with the Ultimate Supremacy of Law and Justice Under the Crown' (2004), Australian Monarchist League.

Seminars

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  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2004). "Contesting the Flag: the mixed messages of the Eureka Flag". In Mayne, Alan (ed.). Eureka: reappraising an Australian Legend. Paper originally presented at Eureka Seminar, University of Melbourne History Department, 1 December 2004. Perth, Australia: Network Books. pp. 45–60. ISBN 978-1-92-084536-0.
  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (2014). Contesting the making of the Eureka Flag. Australian Historical Association Conference. Brisbane.
  • Beggs-Sunter, Anne (November 2004). Eureka; Gathering 'the Oppressed of All Nations'. Eureka Conference. University of Ballarat.

Interviews

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  • "Historians discuss Eureka legend". Lateline. 7 May 2001. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • "The Eureka Rebellion". 7.30 Report. 14 December 1999. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Speeches

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  • Eureka: Saga of Australian history. Canberra: Department of Immigration. 1974. ISBN 978-0-64-293997-5.
  • Geoffrey Blainey (26 November 2004). Eureka - its many meanings (Speech). 2004 Democracy Conference. University of Ballarat.
  • Steve Bracks (26 November 2004). Opening address to Eureka 150 Democracy Conference (Speech). 2004 Democracy Conference. University of Ballarat.

Compilations

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  • Clark, Manning, ed. (1966). Sources of Australian History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Eureka Reminiscences. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Service. 1998. ISBN 0-646-35238-5.
  • Mayne, Alan (ed), Eureka: reappraising an Australian Legend (Network Books, Perth, 2007).
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