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19th Century Childbirth
When men and women married in the 1830s they generally assumed that children would follow promptly and regularly.
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Aboriginal Land Rights
The 1834 British statute authorising the establishment of the colony of South Australia described the region as ‘waste and unoccupied’,…
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Aboriginal Policy and Administration
South Australia’s Foundation Act, passed by the British parliament in 1834, made no reference to the Aboriginal peoples who owned…
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Aboriginal Ration Depots
The distribution of government rations to Aboriginal people, begun in the earliest days of European settlement, continued well into the…
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Adelaide
The city of Adelaide refers here to the area within the outer boundary of the parklands; that is, the ‘square…
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Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills (known in early colonial times as ‘the Tiers’) is a region of the Mount Lofty Ranges east…
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Andrew Tennant
Andrew Tennant (1835–1913) was the son of a Scottish shepherd who had come to South Australia as an assisted migrant…
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Angas Family
George Fife Angas (1789–1879), described by his biographer Edwin Hodder, who was attracted to Angas’s nonconformist piety, as ‘one of…
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Barr Smith Family
Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915), the son of a Scottish clergyman and his wife Marjory, née Barr, migrated to Melbourne in…
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Benjamin Herschel Babbage
Benjamin Herschel Babbage superintended construction of the first Port Adelaide railway line.
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Breweries and beer
How did Lion and Coopers come to be South Australia’s only major brewers of beer today?
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Childhood
The history of childhood in South Australia has been characterised by the assimilation policies practised by the state and the…
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Closer Settlement
Settlers believed that using land intensively maximised its value and civilised its occupants, and that holdings should be small to…
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Cornish
South Australian mineral discoveries of the 1840s (especially at Kapunda and Burra in the Mid North) and extension of the…
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Distance
Geographical position and distance have strongly shaped the European history of South Australia.
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Edward Bates Scott
Edward Bates Scott migrated to New South Wales in 1838 from England, he later settled in the Murray Region, establishing…
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Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (1815–1901) was English-born and educated for a military career but decided to travel to Australia instead. Arriving…
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Elder, Smith and Co’s Bonded and Free Stores
The Bond Store building once used to store goods is now the South Australian Maritime Museum.
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Exploration
The early heroic phase of South Australia’s exploration by Europeans was plagued by difficulties.
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Eyre Peninsula
South Australia’s largest peninsula and best-defined region has a long history but to date no general historian.
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Fishing
Especially in coastal and riverine areas, fishing has always played an important role in the cultural, material and social lives…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
From prehistoric times through the Aboriginal Dreaming to a modern region popular for settlement, farming, tourism and recreation.
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Hindmarsh Square / Mukata
Hindmarsh Square, located in the north-east of Adelaide, was one of the six squares designed by Colonel William Light in…
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History and Historians
Historians of South Australia have asked one question above all others: how is South Australia different?
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Horseracing
Reputed to be Australia’s third-largest industry, horseracing contributes to the national economy and state government revenues through direct employment and…
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Hurtle Square / Tangkaira
Located in the south-east of Adelaide on the Kaurna peoples land of Tandayangga (place of the Red Kangaroo Dreaming), Hurtle Square…
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Jetties
Integral to ease and safety for marine traffic and trade, jetties also have uses as promenades and for fishing
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Jewish People
Small in number over time, Adelaide’s Jews have contributed significantly to the professions, especially medicine, and are well represented in…
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Johannes Menge
Johannes Menge (1788–1852) was born in Steinau, Germany, received little formal education but acquired much mineralogical expertise travelling throughout Europe.…
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