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Bicycles
From ‘boneshakers’ to penny-farthings to mountain bikes, bicycles have certainly changed since the 1860s.
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Bonython Family
Bonython Family is distinguished by a capacity for hard work, a leaning towards public service and significant benefaction to the…
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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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Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd
South Australia has very close historic and daily links to the mining and processing activities of BHP Billiton.
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Central Market
The Central Market is a distinctively Adelaide institution, renowned for fine food and produce and a bustling cosmopolitan atmosphere
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Chalmers Church Free Church of Scotland
The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.
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Charles Allan Seymour Hawker
Charles Hawker was born on 16th May 1894 at Bungaree Station, near Clare, South Australia, the son of station manager…
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Charles Duguid, OBE
Charles Duguid was born on 6th April 1884 at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of primary school headmaster Charles Duguid…
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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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Chinese
A small presence for much of the time, but growing in number and contribution to the community
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Chinese School
Over more than 40 years the Adelaide City Mission provided English-language teaching for Chinese men in the hope of facilitating…
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Christian Churches
Its small number of independent evangelical congregations has dwindled to only the one remaining in rural South Australia.
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Christian Science
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, traditionally regarded as unorthodox, has a wider influence than its numerically small size suggests
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Church of Archangels Michael and Gabriel
The Church of Archangels Michael and Gabriel stands on the site of Adelaide’s oldest Greek Orthodox Church and remains an…
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CJ Dennis
Clarence Michael James Dennis was born at the Auburn Hotel, South Australia, on 7 September 1876. His father, James Dennis,…
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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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Colin Sidney Hayes
Colin Sidney Hayes (1924–1999) was an expert handler and judge of horses, and an astute businessman.
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Conscription
Universal military training, including ‘boy conscription’ for those as young as 12, was introduced via the Commonwealth Defence Act in…
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Coopers Brewery
Coopers Brewery has survived where many others have failed; it is now the only Australian-owned major brewing company.
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Copper Industry
Copper brought unexpected wealth to the new colony and was an economic mainstay for 70 years, with a resurgence since…
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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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Defence Science and Industry
South Australia has been closely involved in the nation’s defence science and industry work for almost a century and continues…
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Distance
Geographical position and distance have strongly shaped the European history of South Australia.
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Dominic McGuire
Dominic Paul McGuire (1903–1978) was educated at Adelaide’s Christian Brothers College and the University of Adelaide. He married Frances Margaret…
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Dr Ruby Davy
Ruby Claudia Emily Davy, a prodigiously talented child born to musical parents in Salisbury, South Australia, in 1883, was one…
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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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Elections
Elections to select members of parliament or local councillors are an important part of the democratic system. Who is allowed…
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Electricity
Although amateur scientists had tinkered with it, electricity was not put to public use in South Australia until the arrival…
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Essington Lewis, CH
An outstanding work ethic drove Essington Lewis to devote his whole life to developing industry in Australia, in particular the…
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