GOLD!

Ms Lockyer’s Top Seven information sources:

 

1.  http://www.egold.net.au/home.html

Good for: pictures, women’s lives, mining techniques, Eureka, effect on Indigenous people

 

 

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo81c6GQPQM

Good for: life as a prospector, the development of Kalgoorlie

 

 

3.  http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/

Good for: Chinese on the Goldfields, health and doctors, daily life, Eureka, technology developments.

 

 

4.  http://museum.wa.gov.au/online-collections/dwyer-and-mackay

Good for: photos of people and places on the Goldfields

 

 

5.  http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/wa-goldfields

Good for: mining techniques, life for women and children, villains, photos.

 

 

6.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6iSo209fPU

Good for: an amazing story of an heroic rescue in the W.A. Goldfields.

 

 

7.  http://www.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-culture-info/immigrant-influences-australian-gold-fields/population-goldfiel

Good for: law and order, living conditions, women’s lives.

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