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- Why is the Museum called Sovereign Hill?
- Study History with help from the Sovereign Hill Museums Association
- The Gold Rushes of Victoria and California Compared
- Women on the Goldfields Part 3 – Working in the Home
- Women on the Goldfields Part 2 – Working Outside the Home
- Women on the Goldfields Part 1 – 19th Century Womanhood
- Sovereign Hill’s Gardens Explained
- Animals on the Goldfields
- The Eureka Rebellion – what we can and can’t ever know
- Environmental Changes to Victoria’s Landscapes
- How? When? Why? – The Industrial Revolution in Australia
- 1850s Fashions in Australia
- Life before we knew about germs …
- The Science of Gold
- Sovereign Hill’s Free Educational Resources – A Guide
- Bad 19th Century Jobs – The Nightman
- The Australian ‘History Wars’ at Sovereign Hill
- What’s it like to work in a museum?
- Who was Lola Montez?
- The History of Victoria
- Life before plastic
- 1850s Hair Dos and Don’ts
- What was the Anti-Chinese League?
- How to cook a goldrush feast
- Childhood in the 1850s
- The 1850s – Then and Now
- Costume at Sovereign Hill: The Redcoat Soldiers
- Goldrush Immigration – Push and Pull Factors
- The hidden stories in artefacts
- Better understanding our history
- In praise of washing machines
- The arrival of the train
- Our favourite goldrush artist – S. T. Gill
- Fire in the 19th Century
- “Why do I have to learn about the Gold Rush?”
- The Great Exhibition of 1851
- 1850s Transport
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- Oh, Sovereign Hill is a museum!
- A Deaf Digger
- It’s beach time!
- Ten 1850s Inventions and Innovations
- Collectors of the Nineteenth Century
- The Environmental Impacts of the Gold Rush
- Goldfields Immigration 3
- Goldfields Immigration: Part 2
- The Goldfields Police
- Alcohol on the Goldfields
- Archiving our audio files
- Books for Teaching History – The Phoenix Foundry: Locomotive Builders of Ballarat. The History of a Ballarat Engineering Company.
- Weird and wonderful goldfields history. Part 2
- Weird and wonderful goldfields history. Part one.
- The Walk from Robe: Retracing the Chinese Journey to the Goldfields
- Indigenous Stories of the Goldfields
- Goldfields Medicine: Part 2
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