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Sovereign Hill acknowledges the Wadawurrung people as the Traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and to all of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live and work on Wadawurrung Country. We acknowledge their unceded sovereignty over Wadawurrung Country, and the ongoing hardship and trauma as a result of colonisation. The history and continuous culture of the Wadawurrung people is an important part of our shared story.

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As emigrants arrived in the Australian colonies, many prepared themselves for a life on the land. Whether settling as farmers, or heading to the goldfields in the hope of finding their fortune, all had to contend with managing their dress, often in harsh and remote environments. While women lived active and productive lives in these localities, it is the image of the male digger and bushman dressed in his loose shirt, trousers and boots and wearing a neckerchief and wide-brimmed hat that dominates understandings of how the quintessential Australian colonial settler dressed. Less is known about how women dressed and adapted to these environments. In focusing on a number surviving items of women’s dress, including those at Sovereign Hill's <a href="https://www.sovereignhill.com.au/article-categories/australian-centre-for-gold-rush-collections/">Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections</a>, this lecture will discuss what women on the goldfields and in rural areas wore and how they purchased, made, mended and managed their often limited supply of clothing.Image: Day Dress, 1860s, The Sovereign Hill Museums AssociationAbout the Presenter Laura Jocic is a curator and historian with a specialisation in dress and textiles. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne investigating the significance of dress in Australian colonial society. Laura has worked in galleries and museums in Australia and New Zealand. She was a Registrar at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and in 2001 she co-founded the Costume &amp; Textile Association of New Zealand. From 2007 to 2012 Laura was a curator of Australian Fashion and Textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria, where she curated the exhibitions Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion and Linda Jackson Bush Couture. Laura is a Research Associate at Museums Victoria and has undertaken projects for RMIT Design Archives and Kew Historical Society and curated the exhibition Louis Kahan: Art, Theatre, Fashion for the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn. She has taught in the areas of art curatorship and cultural heritage and museums studies and has had her research published in various catalogues and journals.

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ACGRC Weston Bate Eliza Perrin

Curator and historian Laura Jocic presents 'Women and Dress in Rural Australia, 1840s-1860s'

Sovereign Hill Outdoor Museum

Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections

$20 Adult | $15 Concession | $5 Streaming | Tickets available at the door.

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Weston Bate Memorial Lecture

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Gain insights into what women on the Ballarat goldfields and in rural areas wore in this lecture by curator and historian Laura Jocic.

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Weston Bate Memorial Lecture | Victorian Gold Rush

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Tales from the Courts: The Chinese Australian community in Ballarat 1860-1890 

Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson 

When gold was discovered in Victoria people flocked to the goldfields of Ballarat from across the world. Amongst those arriving were thousands of 
Chinese migrants. In this year’s Weston Bate lecture Sophie Loy-Wilson explores the rich history of Ballarat’s Chinese community revealed through court 
cases heard on the goldfields. 

With their long lists of witnesses, detailed maps and well-preserved deposition testimony, she will share how these cases allow us to rebuild old Ballarat 
from the bottom up, exposing the intricate cross-cultural relationships which bound Ballarat’s multi-ethic communities together from the 1860s to the turn-
of-the century. 

About the Speaker: 
Sophie Loy-Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Australian History at the University of Sydney where she specializes in the history of the Chinese Australian 
community. Her published books include Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China and Labour History and the "coolie 
question". She is currently completing a book based on her research into Chinese Australians in the Australian legal record.

Weston Bate Memorial Lecture

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