Bibliography of the Eureka Rebellion

The following bibliography includes notable sources concerning the Eureka Rebellion. This article is currently being expanded and revised.

Bibliography

Historiography

General histories

Clark, Manning, A Short History of Australia (MacMillan, Melbourne, reprinted illustrated 2nd edition, 1982).

Ward, Russel, Australia: A short history (Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979).

Surveys of the period

Goodman, David, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s, Allen & Unwin, 1994. Keesing, Nancy, History of the Australian Goldrushes, Lloyd O’Neil Pty. Ltd. 1971.

Bert and Bon Strange, Eureka: Gold Graft and Grievances, B&B Strange, Ballarat, 1973. Sunter, Anne Beggs and Livingston, Kevin (eds) The Legacy of Eureka; Past, Present and Future. Ballarat, Australian Studies Centre, University of Ballarat, 1998. Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka, BHS Publishing, 2014.

Local histories

Stacpoole, H.J., Gold at Ballarat: The Ballarat East Goldfield Its Discovery and Development, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971. Strange, W, Ballarat, A Brief History, Lowden Publishing Co., 1971.

Popular histories

Pictorial histories

Narrative histories

Military histories

Social histories

Connelly, C.N., Miners' Rights, Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism and the Working Class in Australia, (Hale and Ironmonger, Neutral Bay, 1978).

Potts, E. Daniel & Potts Annette, 'American Republicanism and Disturbances on the Victorian Goldfields' (1968) Vol. 13, No. 50: pp. 145–164 Historical Studies.

Political histories

Walshe, R. D., The Eureka Stockade, 1854-1954 (Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1954).

Feminist histories

Wickham, Dorothy, Eureka's Women, BHS Publishing, 2014. Wickham, Dorothy, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHS Publishing, 2009.

Other specialised studies

Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat, BHS Publishing, 1998. Gervasoni & Wickham, Among the Diggers, BHS Publishing, 1999.

Gervasoni, Clare, Outbreak at Ballarat: Eureka from the Mount Alexander Mail. Oddie, James (1904), From Tent to Parliament: The Life of Peter Lalor and his Coadjutors, and History of the Eureka Stockade (Second Edition), Ballarat: Berry, Anderson & Co. Sidney, Samuel, The Three Colonies of Australia, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Their Pastures, Copper Mines and Gold Fields, Ingram. Cooke & Co, London, 1852. Stanley, Peter, The Remote Garrison, The British Army in Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1986.

Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark, BHS Publishing, 1998. Wickham, Dorothy, St Alipus: Ballarat's First Church, self-published, 1997.

Commemorative publications

Rich, Margaret (ed), Eureka: The event and its continuing impact on the nation (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1994).

Biography

O'Grady, Desmond, Raffaello! Raffaello!: A Biography of Raffaello Carboni (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1985). O'Grady, Desmond, Stages of Revolution: A biography of the Eureka Stockade's Raffaello Carboni (Hardie Grant Books, Prahan, 2004). Bamberger, Daniel; Young, Anne, Edward Thonen. A forgotten Eureka rebel. Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, Zentrum für Stadtgeschichte und Industriekultur (Wuppertal, 2023).

Battlefield archaeology

Vexillology

Primary sources

Memoirs

Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smyth The Ballarat Riots, 1854 held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

Nicholls, H.R (May 1890). Reminiscences of the Eureka Stockade. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly. II: August 1889 to July 1890 (available in an annual compilation). R.E. Johns Papers, MS10075, Manuscript Collection, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria.

Diaries

Evans, Charles, diary, 24 September 1853 – 21 January 1855, SLV, MS 11484, Box 1777/4. Pierson, Thomas, diary, SLV, MS 11646, Box 2178/4-5. Taylor, Theophilus, diary, 23 September 1853 – 1 August 1856, Ballarat Genealogy Society.

Letters

Pasley, Charles: 1855, Letter to his father. FM 3/359 B1564 6-46A, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Smyth, Patrick: 13 December 1854, Ballarat. Letter to William Henry Archer, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission. Wilson, John: 1856, Letter from Mt. Egerton. ML DOC 2771 6-660c, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

Affidavits

Official reports

Other contemporaneous reports

The Argus

The Argus, 19 August 1853, 4.

The Age

The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer

Geelong Advertiser, 2 December 1854, 4.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Kyogle Examiner

Daily Mercury

Legislation

An Act for the Better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies 1850 (UK). The Victoria Electoral Act of 1851 No 3a (NSW). An Act to extend the Elective Franchise 1854 (Vic). An Act for granting duties of Customs upon Gold exported from Victoria 1855 (Vic). An Act to make provision for certain Immigrants 1855 (Vic). Victoria Constitution Act 1855 (UK). Legislative Council Reform Act 1950 (Vic).

Proclamations

Supplement to the Victorian Government Gazette, No 6, 13 August 1851, 209. Victorian Government Gazette, No. 8, 27 August 1851, 307. Victorian Government Gazette, No 22, 3 December 1851, 825. Victorian Government Gazette, No 25, 24 December 1851, 871.

Cases

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