We have developed a number of resources for teachers to use in their classrooms when teaching about the gold rushes, mining, immigration and many other areas of Australian history.
You can also find our resources on our website.
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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
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- 1850s Hair Dos and Don’ts
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- The hidden stories in artefacts
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- Our favourite goldrush artist – S. T. Gill
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- “Why do I have to learn about the Gold Rush?”
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- 1850s Transport
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- Goldfields Immigration: Part 2
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- Archiving our audio files
- Books for Teaching History – The Phoenix Foundry: Locomotive Builders of Ballarat. The History of a Ballarat Engineering Company.
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