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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 Missions
Christianity was first introduced to the Kaurna of the Adelaide plains by two German Lutheran missionaries, Clamor Schürmann and Christian…
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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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Aborigines Protection Board
The South Australian Aborigines Act Amendment Act (1939) established a board ‘charged with the duty of controlling and promoting the welfare’ of…
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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 Brewery
Adelaide Brewery was an early colonial enterprise. While brewing has long ceased there, the building survives in a different guise.
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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 Alexander Kirkpatrick
Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick was born in London, England, on 4th January 1848. His mother, Mary Ann Gildin (née Stinton), was…
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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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Archbishop’s House
Archbishop’s House, formerly known as Bishop’s Palace, was built in 1845 as the residence for the Roman Catholic Bishop of…
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Architecture
The distinctive architectural character of Adelaide and its suburbs has disappeared since 1980 – city high-rise offices and derivative styles…
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Art Galleries
Adelaide’s art galleries contribute to its reputation as a city of the arts. The South Australian Society of Arts, established…
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Audrey Tennyson
Audrey Tennyson (1854-1916), wife of South Australian governor Hallam Tennyson, took a particular interest in the conditions of South Australia’s…
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Australian Rules Football
The structure of local Aussie Rules football competitions has changed over time, just as the game itself has continued to…
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Austrians in South Australia
The first Austrians to arrive in South Australia were two Jesuit priests, Fathers Aloysius Kranewitter and Maximilian Klinkowstroem on December 8,…
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Ayers House
Acquired and extended on the back of copper mining from the mid 1840s, Ayers House has had three main occupancies…
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Baptist Church
Baptists are a much higher proportion of regular churchgoers than the rest of the state’s population
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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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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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Chinese
A small presence for much of the time, but growing in number and contribution to the community
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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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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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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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