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Research Notes

The following research notes have been written by the Education Officers at Sovereign Hill. You may wish to combine this information with the pictures also available on this site or use the link to the student activities.

Notes for Primary Students

(Reprinted with kind premission of Red Hill and St Peters schools)

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Gold! Gold! Properties and Uses 

The Great Irish Famine -1846 

A Safe Passage 

Golden Literature. Quotes from the gold fields 

The Chinese 

1850s School Life

Notes for Secondary Students

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Ballarat's Aboriginal Heritage

Law and Order on the Goldfields

The Discovery of Gold in Australia

Eureka 

Life on the Goldfields

Women on the Goldfields

Transport in the 1850s

Mining Technology

The Chinese in Ballarat 

Primary Sources - Goldfields Quotes