Australia History

Australia History

This is a selection of posts about Australian history. It is not meant to be a comprehensive survey of Australian History. You can add more history links in the comments.

general

australia - history summary
BBC's country profile for Australia.
australia - prints
Australia's convict sites
DARING CONVICT ESCAPES
the Eureka flag
ned kelly
Janet Clarke (née Snodgrass) - the ashes
cricket - the ashes
Villers-Bretonneux - photos
Villers-Bretonneux
I love a sunburnt country
The Man From Snowy River
History of International Women's Day
Steve & Brocky

Exploration

Portuguese Discovery of Australia in 1522
the floating brothel
1606 Willem Janszoon
1629 the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia
Bligh's account of the Mutiny on the Bounty
1789 Bligh's notebook
1817 Rose De Freycinet
1860, Burke and Wills
Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860–1861
1885, Frank Hurley
antarctic photography

Art -general
Australian Art History - interpreted
australian history rewritten
Resource - Timeline of Art History
history of Australian comic books
Australian Art Sales Digest
Contemporary Australian Art 1966–2006
Australian Women's Art at the National Library

1800s
early Australian imprints
colonial landscape images
Glover 1840
John Peter Russell ca. 1888
Marrianne Collinson Campbell
Passions of the First Wave Feminists

1900 - 1950s
Modern Australian Women: paintings & prints 1925-1945
Grace Crowley
Olley & Friend
Grace Cossington Smith
Margaret Preston (1875-1963)
Margaret Preston (1875-1963)
charles blackman
Axel POIGNANT 1906–1986
nolan's kelly


1960s
the ABC's history - The Beatles tour Australia
the Opera House 1959 - 1973
the movement to have Jorn Utzon returned
art & language
Peter Kingston and Martin Sharp
ian fairweather
boyd's brides
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

1970s
Dale Spender's Man Made Language
Dale Spender - Interview
Vivienne Binns
Helen Reddy
on Greer
1970s feminism - Artlink
Barry Humphries' Flashbacks episode 3 - The 70s
john peart
Kevin Connor
Mike Parr
origins of the contemporary aboriginal art movement
Australian Aboriginal Flag

1980s
John Coburn
australian poster art

1990s
Australian Art 1985 - 1999
Rosalie Gascoigne
Imants Tillers & Rosalie Gascoigne
lichtenstein & arkley

printmaking
45 YEARS OF THE SYDNEY PRINTMAKERS
The story of Australian printmaking 1801–2005
The story of Australian printmaking 1801-2005 {2}
The story of Australian printmaking 1801-2005 {3}
The Museum of Printing